Example sentences of "[to-vb] [modal v] [vb infin] " 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 | Declining the chance to invest may result in considerable losses through lack of maintaining competitive strengths in the industry . |
| 3 | At the same time , though , an organisation of teaching which is extremely difficult to monitor may result in desirable procedures and content disappearing by default . |
| 4 | Right question thirteen , two more to go let's finish , question thirteen |
| 5 | In his second reading speech on the National Assistance Bill in 1947 , for example , Aneurin Bevan argued that the accommodation in a local authority old person 's home should be charged for in just the same way as that in a private hotel or nursing home , ‘ so that any old persons who wish to go may go there in exactly the same way as many well-to-do people have been accustomed to go into residential hotels ’ ( HC Debates , 1947 , Col. 1609 ) . |
| 6 | Any person entitled under s.16(1) to object may support the suspension in accordance with subs . |
| 7 | Naturally , some of these indications are quite likely to be related to problems other than faulty vision , but since sight problems may be causing them , a screening test which is , after all , quick and easy to perform should help to confirm or rule out defective vision as a reason for concern . |
| 8 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 9 | The reservations that Galileo 's rivals held about accepting phenomena such as the moons of Jupiter that Galileo had learnt to see must have been in part due , not to prejudice , but to genuine difficulties encountered when learning to ‘ see ’ through what were , after all , very crude telescopes . |
| 10 | Non-members who wish to attend should write to The Secretary , Sands Cox Society , Medical School , Birmingham B15 2TT as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Anyone wishing to attend should contact Frances Hoare , Essex TEC 's head of business and enterprise , on Chelmsford ( 0245 ) 450123 . |
| 12 | Bank pensions wishing to attend should contact Barbara Brindle ( ) or Beryl Wallbank ( ) . |
| 13 | Anyone who would like to attend should contact organiser Peter Goodwin on Redcar 472249 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Those who wish to swim must use the special swimming changing room — not the main changing room . |
| 17 | The ability of the Police Complaints Authority to supervise may counter the criticism that there is a lack of rigour in the investigation . |
| 18 | If you are no longer acting for any of the appellants shown as being represented by you on the enclosed Roll , you should inform this office , in writing , at least seven days before the hearing date , enclosing a copy of your letter to the appellant informing him/her that you are no longer acting , giving him/her details of the date , time and place of the Appeal hearing and that he/she must attend to present his/her Appeal and that failure to appear may result in the Appeal being dismissed . |
| 19 | Privacy : an individual who believes a publication due to appear may constitute unwarranted invasion of privacy should be free to ask for the council 's help . |
| 20 | ( d ) whether any shares are held by family trusts ( trustees may become particularly vulnerable if an offer is made at an attractive price because a refusal to accept may result in allegations of a breach of trust ) ; |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Failure to mark out explicitly the structural organisation of what a speaker wishes to communicate may make the addressee 's task of interpretation more difficult , perhaps , but , by itself , would not necessarily constitute a failure to communicate . |
| 23 | And we want to know let's say we 're interested in a a time of about ten hours or something . |
| 24 | Tango Golf is now undergoing restoration by the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) at Duxford ( FP May , p58 ) and in years to come may fly alongside Bravo Golf , making a rare — if not unique — ‘ Messerschmitt ’ pair in the air . |
| 25 | Thus a certain sales figure may remain as the target but the spending habits of the income group from which the sales were to come may have shifted . |
| 26 | Look , too , at the hurdles which a single mother who wants to work must face . |
| 27 | Anyone interested in this topic is encouraged to attend and those intending to come should contact |
| 28 | Yet she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength and , not impossibly , exceed it . |
| 29 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 30 | To allow them to flourish could lead only to pain — even greater pain than she was feeling in this moment , though she could hardly imagine anything could be greater . |