Example sentences of "of the [prep] infinitive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we have not examined the use of the to infinitive as subject . |
| 2 | From the point of view of its spatial support , we can understand as well the use of the to infinitive as what Jespersen calls the " infinitive of specification " ( 1940 : 262ff ) . |
| 3 | All of the uses of the to infinitive with full verbs in the corpus fall into one or the other of these two categories . |
| 4 | Its exclusively perceptual meaning also bars it from being construed with a that-clause , whereas this construction is a close equivalent of the to infinitive with verbs of perception in their conceptual use : ( 46 ) * I watched that they were obnoxious . |
| 5 | The use of the to infinitive in the second example is more difficult to account for . |
| 6 | The expressive effect created by the use of the to infinitive in this type of context thus provides further support for our explanatory hypothesis . |
| 7 | The bare infinitive is used to produce a very different effect from that of the to infinitive in exclamations , as can be seen in ( 3 ) above and in : ( 30 ) I say anything disrespectful of Dr Keen ? |
| 8 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |
| 9 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 10 | This explains the exclusive use of the to infinitive after this verb . |