Example sentences of "than to have [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 2 | Stephen had ordered some sophisticated German industrial kitchen fittings from a supplier based in Venezuela , on the basis that it would be quicker to import from there than to have them shipped direct . |
| 3 | Works traditionally ascribed to the masters but considered by de Groot to be incorrect , have been omitted , for as the author stated : ‘ it is less unpleasant for the private collector to have his pictures passed over in silence than to have them mentioned and definitely described as false ’ . |
| 4 | There may be instances when the systematic abuse of conflict of interest situations will be tolerated on the basis that it is more efficient to permit the abuse than to have it eradicated . |
| 5 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 6 | Nothing could be more enslaving and therefore less worthy of the human mind than to have it chained to the mechanics of the patterns of the language rather than free to dwell on the message conveyed through the language . |