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yes, you are right. even I haven't seen this usage anywhere but ETS.

anyway, check out the list that I found (includes almost all what's there in PP).
I am not sure whether someone has posted this already...

1. Agree that
2. A fact that
3. Importance of
4. Conclusion of
5. Target at
6. Debate over sth.(w473)
7. Pls : a large sum of; quantities of
8. Make it xxx to do sth
9. Make sth sth (w484)
10. Look to sth to do sth (LZM P24/ w108))
11. View ¡­ as¡­(q147)
12. Proposal to do ,,,(w165)
13. A time when ¡­ ( age in which w205/Period during which / a period
when (q211)/ the same year that¡­/the same year as noun¡­ )
(q174/w33/W217)
14. What are now temperate areas ( w205)
15. Over a period of a hundred years beginning in 1788 ( q220) ( wrong:
100 years, a period beginning ¡­ q220)
16. The same time as the civilization ( q80)
17. The same year as/that xxx is published (lzm 188)
18. Capable of ability to do capability to do
19. Responsible for
20. Permit sb to do permit (no sb) doing (w61)
21. Damage to
22. Will continue to
23. Merge with ( w172)
24. Resistance to (w341)
25. Help to do ( q179/q216); be helpful in doing
26. Be trained to help find ( q236)
27. Aid sb ( q221) (aid: verb)
28. Aid in doing sth ( W212; aid¡ªnoun)n n
29. In Attempt to
30. Have no ground for
31. Just as ¡­ so¡­
32. Discourage xxx from doing
33. Combine with(W426)
34. Forbid to do, forbid a strike by union
35. Demand that:
36. Expect news to be fair (w88)
37. X is expected to Y (q131)s
38. Believe x to be y (q228)
39. Estimated to be(Q14)
40. Using account of (q11)
41. Distinguish between a and b; distinguish a from b
42. Allergic to xxx
43. Attribute to xxx
44. Spring to life in a flash of inspiration (q22)
45. Number increased by 50% (q23)
46. Difficult to do
47. No less remarkable than the development of CD(q30)
48. Sb is disinclined to recognize that¡­(q31)
49. A method of protecting (q39)
50. Method for doing ( w461)
51. Call xxx to consider (q41)
52. Worry about / dispute over ( q42)
53. Known to orbit (q49)
54. Know as the solar wind ( q241)
55. Elect to retire rather than face (q55)
56. His courage is not unlike that of sb ( q51)
57. He is likely to be at server disadvantage ( q70)s
58. The rising cost ( q52)
59. The rising of moon ( q150)
60. There is no consensus on ( q53)
61. Are in danger of doing ( q63)
62. Consider a b
63. Think of a as b (q182)
64. More than a million others ( q59), more than doubled ( q72)
65. Take turn drawing ( q72)
66. She cite x as instance of Y ( q74)
67. The term ¡°design¡± Suggest laying out corporate brochures(77),
suggest that¡­
68. Some suggest reducing price to do (q160)
69. Suggest the penitentiary as reform (w438)
70. Propose that (q164)
71. Persuade sb to do ( q173)
72. In contrast to ( q82)
73. In contrast with ¡­( w117)
74. Contrary to ¡­ (w417)
75. Unable to ( no potential at all, people only not refer to sth. Can
not be used as: be able to be done); can not ( not now, but might could
in future )
76. There is now one fore every 32 pupils, four time as many as there
were 4 years ago ( four time modify ratio) ? (89)
77. Three out of every four automobile ¡­ ( q252)
78. Allow sb to do/ have begun ( q90)
79. The amount of grain farmer will be allowed to grow (w278)
80. Seem to indicate that (q95)
81. Use a to do/use a as b ( wrong: use a to be b) ? (q120/96)
82. Be used for the purpose such as ¡­ ( q189)
83. With intention of doing .. (w124)
84. Intended to do ¡­ (w124)
85. A is prized as game animal ( q97)
86. More closely integrated than ever (q98) ---
87. Prohibit xxx from doing (q100)
88. Amount to (q101)
89. Except for ( q102)
90. Where there are few services and little available water(Q107)
91. Require of sb that(W113) require that; (sth be required of sb
(q181 )wrong: sb required of sth ?); require sb to do; (wrong: require
of sb to do) ? (q109)
92. Pay for job ( q109)
93. Income for family (q137)
94. Rates for ( charged q13)
95. Premium for auto insurance ( q232)
96. Cost of a to b in lost ¡­= a cost b in lost ¡­ (q110)
97. Invest in (q111)
98. Research to do ( q111)
99. Claim to be able to/claim that (q120)
100. Sb is acclaimed as (9610-6)
101. Order a to do b ( q121) order that x do ( q218)
102. Rule that ¡­ (q130)/ restitution ¡­ for ¡­ ( q130)
103. Mandate that do (q145)¡­ ( wrong: mandate a to do b)
104. Demand that xxx do ( wrong: demanding/demand it to ) ( q 142)
105. Wong: after when ( q124)
106. Comparison: like + noun / as + subordinate clause (q126) ( as +
noun is not a comparison, as + subordinate clause is a comparison W131)
107. Substitute a for b (q127)
108. Their wine is priced to sell, and they do (q 129)
109. Equivalent/ equal ( modify uncountable); as many as ( modify
countable) ? ( q132)
110. Family in which only husband is employed(q137)
111. Values are xxxx ( q140)
112. Accusing a doctor of malpractice (q146)
113. Wrong: lack of some other doctor (q146)
114. Wong: if + will ( Q146)
115. Mistake a for b ( q150)
116. Connection between ( q151)
117. Vast numbers of people ( q152)
118. More than 500 people that¡­ more than the 500 people that (
Q154) !!
119. Dirt road cost as much twice to maintain as paved road do ( q156)
120. The rate of increase is nearly twice what is was in 1970 (w231)
121. Account for 5% of the world¡¯s population, USA citizens ( q158)
122. Child under four years of age (q162)
123. 49% of household incomes are(q165)
124. a community where xxx ( q165)
125. not¡­but rather¡­(q166)
126. mere 3% of the cell¡¯ dna ( q176)
127. wrong: xxx in their performing of job (q178)
128. we see them as they were during the formation ( q180)
129. keep it from doing ( q183)
130. lead to (q185)
131. 5% increase in delay ( wrong: 5% more delay) (q185)
132. occurred when they were children (q1)/ died in child hood (q188)
(wrong: died as child)
133. xxx is in the rise of a and in the victory of b ( q190)
134. one of who is blind ( q194)
135. the only one of 48 states where there is ¡­ and where¡­ ( q225)
136. target at (q195); aim at /policy aimed at doing ( q212)
137. the aim of xxx is to do (w385)
138. rules that aim to do¡­ (469)
139. power enabling it to withdraw from public ( q222) ? (wrong: power
for it to withdraw¡­)
140. supply for campaign ( q198)
141. since --- have done from --- to --- did (q202)
142. partly to do ¡­ partly because ( q204)
143. spawned by ¡­ and extending for ¡­ ( q210)
144. what is much more difficult to determine is ¡­ (Q211)
145. the term refer to someone who is ( q214)
146. doing so would xxx (q215)
147. rivalry between x and y/rivals x and y ( q217) (wrong: rivalry x
against y)
148. a rival b for sth (w307)
149. cost associated with a is prohibitive ( q219/w368))
150. who major in such areas as finance ( q223)
151. is isolated from contact with ( q224)
152. credit art with having = give credit to art for having ( q226)
153. liken it to putting ¡­ ( q229)
154. too long to be registered by eye ( wrong: too long to for xxx to
register IT); too difficult to read, (wrong: too difficult to read IT) (
q234)
155. interaction of two star ( q237)
156. interaction of a and b
157. propose a 17% reduction in the amount allocated last year ( q247)
158. musicians, including a and b, whose¡­ (q249)
159. more bird/ numbers are 5 times greater than ¡­ ( wrong: numbers are
5 times more than) ( q251)
160. blame on (q253)
161. is determined by ( q257)
162. sth be fault for ¡­ ( q258)
163. sb be at fault for doing ¡­ (9610-3)
164. Zzz is not the fault of sb ( pr test 3 q25)
165. note that¡­ as (q258)
166. bring to 34 the number of birds (q259)
167. decrease to the lowest level in two years ( q260)
168. born in china, a became Japanese in 1982 (q261)
169. baby is born to a mother (w177)
170. born into an chinese community (w224)
171. as a result of destruction ( q263)
172. a consequence of sitting too close to engine (w348)
173. call a to b using xxx (wrong: by the use of xxx)
174. alternative to ( pr test 1 q21)
175. It has diffiulty reading ( pr test 2 q11)
176. Has strong ground for opposing of that proposal ¡­ (pr test 2 q21)
177. Any thing that has been¡­ ( w55)
178. It is hoped ( wrong: hopefully w58)
179. The ways in which they related to each other ( w75)
180. Dose not read like ¡­ ( wrong read unlike¡­. W76)
181. Possibility/Likelihood that ¡­ (w96)
182. Possibility of doing (w171)
183. Decedent of a single female ¡­ (w100)
184. Model after ( w102)
185. Replacement of steel by such material as ¡­ (w114)
186. Expressed fear that¡­. (w145)/ lowering of fear about inflation (
q201)
187. (whole) none of¡­; (part) not all of ¡­ ( wrong: all¡­not w151)
188. pack it flat ( it is flat)/ pack it flatly ( packet flatly W78)
189. each with its own executive ( w156)
190. the three major networks each broadcast ( w158)
191. are unequally distributed between rich and poor (w168)
192. so as to do ¡­ ( wrong so as to be done w179)
193. paper of all kinds is ¡­. ( w220)
194. can be programmed to think like people (w242, wrong: think as
people can)
195. even as ¡­. (w267) ( mean :just as¡­, not mean although¡­)
196. China has one of the five highest numbers of reported case of ..
(w304)
197. Perceive as ¡­(w308)
198. Tell apart (w324)
199. In deciding at its founding in 1883 to accept ¡­ ( 9603-13)
200. Be worthwhile to try (w355)
201. appear to have made a long awaited recovery (W382)
202. one ¡­. The other ( w404)
203. emerge in other procedures (w409)
204. be crucial in doing (W411)
205. a produce goods worth as much as those of b (w419)
206. either are now ¡­. Or will be so within a few year¡­ ( w420: wrong:
either now or within a few years will be¡­)
207. phenomenon in which (w427)
208. a dose more than merely summarize existing research¡­ ( w447)
209. assure sb of sth ( w458)
210. not ¡­ nor¡­ (w460)
211. by supporting (w462)



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