Di dalam penggunaan noun + to infinitives, kita biasanya mempunyai tujuan yaitu mengekspresikan kebutuhan atau kemungkinan di dalam bahasa Inggris. Misalnya, I have no money to buy a food. (Saya tidak mempunyai uang untuk membeli mobil), jadi to infinitive (to buy) yang ada setelah noun digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu kebutuhan akan uang untuk membeli makanan.
Contoh-contoh selanjutnya ada di tabel berikut ini:
| Noun | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | advice | Your advice to stop the business is good for me. |
| 2 | appeal | His appeal to reduce the price should be obeyed. |
| 3 | attempt | Our attempt to win the competition was successful. |
| 4 | chance | In indonesia, you will have a chance to live in peace. |
| 5 | decision | The government's decision to increase the gasoline's cost is not good. |
| 6 | desire | I don't have any desire to get this job. |
| 7 | dream | My drem to become a president will never realized. |
| 8 | goal | I have a goal to win this mathematics competition. |
| 9 | motivation | Why don't you have any motivation to enter this big company? |
| 10 | need | I need to fix this problem fast. |
| 11 | opportunity | You don't have any opportunity to get a job if you still stay here. |
| 12 | order | I can't follow his order to kill a horse. |
| 13 | permission | The permission to enter this room is quite difficult to get. |
| 14 | plan | I have a plan to climb a mountain. Will you join with me? |
| 15 | preparation | Our preparation to make a presentation was not good enough. |
| 16 | proposal | Our country's proposal to host a FIFA World Cup seems to be accepted. |
| 17 | recommendation | Can you give me a recommendation to close this place? |
| 18 | refusal | You shouldn't make a refusal to help your mother. |
| 19 | reminder | I need your reminder to finish the jobs every day. |
| 20 | request | Your request to buy a car couldn’t be granted. |
| 21 | requirement | The job's requirement to be able speaking english is so hard for me. |
| 22 | suggestion | My suggestion to drive this car rather than yours was absolutely right. |
| 23 | tendency | I don't see any tendency to get advantage from others. |
| 24 | wish | Her wish to become a supermodel should be appreciated. |
| 25 | way | There is no way to improve your english anymore. |
