COMPLEX OBJECT

Объектный инфинитивный оборот:

Подлежащее + сказуемое

где Д – сущ. или местоимение в объектном падеже

Правило перевода: придаточным предложением с союзами «что», «чтобы», «как» после сказуемого.

We expect purification plants to protect the air from pollution.

Мы полагаем, что очистительные заводы защищают воздух от загрязнения.

I watched them planting green plantations.

Мы наблюдали, как они сажали зеленые насаждения.

1. We know this gas to be oxygen, also one of the constituents of air.

2. We watched the metal being poured into the forms.

3. The teacher wanted them to translate this text without a dictionary.

4. We see this scientific center grow day by day.

5. Knowing him to be good at math, I asked him to explain the rule.

6. We saw them making significant observations.

7. We know gravity to act on every particle of a body.

8. The experiments have shown the electrons to be particles of negative electricity.

9. We know the idea of space flights to have attracted attention of people since the remotest times.

10. He has often watched students doing this experiment.

11. Millions of people saw on their TV screens Soviet cosmonaut Leonov fearlessly floating in the open space.

12. Many of the compounds to be discussed are unstable under ordinary handling conditions.

13. There were many theories to explain the nature of gravitation but Newton was the first to solve this problem.

14. We know Newton’s laws of motion to be based upon his own and Galileo’s experiments.

15. Joule showed heat and mechanical energy to be interchangeable at a constant rate of exchange.

16. We know the effective force to be the sum of the two forces when the forces act in the same direction.

17. The scientists found beta-rays to consist of electrons.

18. We supposed all the details of the plan to have been explained to you long ago.

19. I want you to tell me everything from the time we parted yesterday.

20. Suddenly I felt somebody pull me by the sleeve and a strange voice whispered “Look here!”

21. He was so pleased that he ordered this entertainment to be continued for several days.

22. The known volatility and oxide forming properties of polonium metal require the reaction to be carried out in a closed system and ether in an inert atmosphere or in vacuum.

23. I was sitting quietly at my table when I heard something jump in at the window and then run about from one side of the room to the other.

24. It was evident she didn’t want me to know the truth.

25. He heard the professor say something to her junior assistant.

26. Most scientists expect major development in the nearest future to take place in biology.

27. The present-day situation forces more and more countries to start contributing to this field of research.

28. One will naturally think such course of events to be disastrous not only for science but for future of mankind.

29. This allowed the rules to be followed.

30. They could not tolerate other people taking up the problem which they had been investigating for so long.

31. Later we find Shakespeare using this style in prose dialogue.

32. One can hardly expect a true scientist to keep within the limits of one narrow long-established field.

33. This analysis permitted the problem to be tackled directly.

34. He felt someone watching him.

35. I heard him playing the piano.

36. I saw the driver opening his window and throwing a box into the bushes.

37. Would you like me to go now?

38. Nowadays we often see scientists moving from one field of research into another.

39. He is not only critical of the work of others, but also of his own, since he knows the man to be the least reliable of scientific instruments.

40. The students said different types of peat to have been tested in the lab.

41. They reported some kinds of peat to contain a large amount of calcium.

42. He wanted the arrangements to be completed early in the morning.

43. We cannot allow the goods to be examined carelessly.

44. I noticed him starting at the newcomer.

45. In fact, I heard him refuse that help.

46. Now he never allows anything to be done in a hurry.

47. I watched him removing the cover and looking inside the box.

48. Olive heard the side gate open and looking out of the window she saw John walking up the garden.

49. On entering the house, she saw her son walking up and down in an agony of doubt.

50. I know jet engines to have been operating under severe conditions for a long period of time.