Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire to continue to nurse may have to be subjugated to the need to work at something which enables the other responsibilities to be satisfied . |
| 2 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 3 | Some compounds are photo-labile ; therefore , samples that have been exposed to light should be examined in full and not only in terms of their colour . |
| 4 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 5 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 6 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 8 | I do not think that the jobs that people in Harrogate will want to find will be jobs in the industrial area and they will tend to be office jobs , and |
| 9 | The coarse grist can take as long as six months , by which time many plants that are intended to benefit will have long since gone . |
| 10 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 11 | In effect , he argued that the policy changes in China that Democrats want to see can be achieved through better mechanisms than attaching conditions to MFN status . |
| 12 | This lists all the files as well as the subdirectories , and the sheer volume of information guarantees that the files you want to see will have scrolled off the top of your screen before you can read them . |
| 13 | Helping them recognize the feeling of when they want to go can be an important component for the older pre-school child . |
| 14 | Ca n't wait to go can you ? |
| 15 | While the debate on bottle feeding versus breastfeeding continues , health experts say those who want to breastfeed should be encouraged . |
| 16 | The choice of clothing , Music or even places to shop will be made so that the individual 's interaction with the external environment is structured in a particular way . |
| 17 | Everyone who is capable and wants to work should be able to do so , regardless of age , gender and marital status . |
| 18 | Look , too , at the hurdles which a single mother who wants to work must face . |
| 19 | And we want to know let's say we 're interested in a a time of about ten hours or something . |
| 20 | While discussions of what astronomers expect to find can only be expressed in terms of what they already know , those working on IRAS clearly hope that the satellite will make exciting new discoveries . |
| 21 | A telephone call explaining why you want to meet will usually be sufficient . |
| 22 | What the planner needs to know can be set out in the form of a cycle of information and analysis — a cycle , because marketing and advertising are a continuous process , and knowledge gained from one advertising campaign can be used to develop its continuation . |
| 23 | If you have to use files created by someone else , finding out which file you want to retrieve can be like looking for a needle in a haystack , particularly if that person is out of the office . |
| 24 | The novel I propose to write will be |
| 25 | To that end , they have formed the Distributed Support Information Standards Group and say the standards it will seek to establish will address the concerns of organisations responsible for service , support and management of networked systems . |
| 26 | The teacher that reads your review that wants to know shall I buy that review , hi hire that video rather or , or what , am I going to use it for my class , they are going to er want that information and they do n't want er concepts introduced which they do n't understand what is meant by it , so be careful in that er erm , we have species of bird , the brambling , which I , I think is a pub in |
| 27 | The increased competition from imported coal which the proposed privatization of the electricity industry was expected to unleash would also force down the price of British mined coal — most of which is used in CEGB power stations . |
| 28 | A member with a holding of a similar size will be quite unable to present a credible challenge to the board because in any contested vote the bulk of shareholders who bother to participate can be relied on to support the incumbent management team . |
| 29 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 30 | The extent to which the Consumer Credit Regulations for Advertisements , Quotations and Total Charge for Credit can be expected to help will be discussed in the next two chapters . |