Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 2 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |
| 3 | What I 'd most like to do is go to the court to listen to what 's happening in the trial , but … . ’ |
| 4 | It is a new A5 size printed in three different languages to directly appeal to WASL 's growing European network . |
| 5 | But any fat the Region may once have had is long gone . |
| 6 | What I 'd also like to say is I think it 's e ecol erm , ecologically correct as well for us to move into computer literacy and computer designed programs . |
| 7 | A further issue which we may also wish to consider is the one of ‘ value added ’ . |
| 8 | However , the proof most of you would probably have given is : If x = y then x2 = y2 ( 2 ) , a contradiction . |
| 9 | This also gives him an introduction to what he will later come to realise is an example of personal freedom . |
| 10 | When hit rates are low , the probability that two adjacent records will both require updating is also low . |
| 11 | What I do n't really want to do is to sign you off sick long term , without really knowing I mean |
| 12 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 13 | I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions . |
| 14 | Actually the last time I was stood up on a platform and did this was in front of erm a S G T congress in Dieppe and I tell you I had to do it in French , and it was much more difficult so I 'm hoping this one will go smoothly , but I , what I 'd really like to do is begin with is offer you erm delegates and platform both , a very very warm welcome from the trade union movement in Portsmouth . |
| 15 | What I would really like to see is Sir Robin conduct one of his Question Times among a young audience who had completed the series . |
| 16 | I would n't mind appearing in , I 'd like you know one of the things I 'd really love to do is a er comedy . |
| 17 | The Conservatives were also putting forward of course prudent growth in important areas and one of the areas that I would particularly like to mention is that of nursery education . |
| 18 | And what I would quite like to do is to see you as you come to the end of the starter pack and I think the starter pack is Oh I ca n't remember how many days treatment is in it . |
| 19 | Well what I 'd quite like to do is if we could go back over |
| 20 | The notion of giving money or quasi money to a family to spend in a way they would not otherwise choose to do is very far from the assumptions of a free market in which people spend their own money on something they want . |
| 21 | By spending money on the unemployed , the old , and the poor ( who in the UK are entitled to supplementary benefit if their total income from whatever source falls below a certain minimum level ) , the government seeks to ensure that the distribution of income and welfare that a totally free market economy would otherwise have produced is at least truncated : there is a minimum standard of living below which no citizen should fall . |
| 22 | But what I 'd dearly love to know is what on earth made him so suspicious of me ? |