Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BTG fears that if the consortium including RCT offers the best price RCT may attempt to gain a majority share-holding and might shut BTG 's US office . |
| 2 | Note that such an attachment may suffice to allow a learner to drive a motor cycle in excess of 250cc . |
| 3 | In particular , a database user may want to search a file in a number of ways , according to a particular application . |
| 4 | Alternatively O may choose to bring a claim for conversion against X or Y. Where O brings his claim against Z , Z will naturally wish to claim against Y who sold to him . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) Where a licensing board considers that licensed premises are no longer suitable or convenient for the sale of alcoholic liquor , having regard to their character and condition , and the nature and extent of the use of the premises , the board may decide to hold a hearing with a view to making a closure order under this section , and the effect of a closure order is that the licence held in respect of the premises shall cease to have effect while the closure order is in force . |
| 6 | ( 9 ) A licensing board may refuse to renew a licence provisionally granted under subsection ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above if the board considers that there has been unreasonable delay on the part of the applicant in completing the premises . |
| 7 | the University may wish to consider a review of the information about assessment and marking schemes which is provided to students . |
| 8 | For example , researchers may attempt to obtain a series of lengthy in-depth interviews with senior buyers or decision-makers in industrial organisations , whilst consumer market research might concentrate on getting a limited amount of specific information from as large a sample as possible from the relevant population . |
| 9 | Also , any creditor may decide to lodge a court petition for the company to be compulsorily wound up . |
| 10 | General Motors Corp may need to sell a stake in Electronic Data Systems Corp in order to overcome a $14,000m worldwide pension obligation , industry analysts told Reuter : chief financial officer Richard Wagoner said the automaker plans to make a ‘ significant contribution ’ into its pension fund this year and next year , and over the next six or seven years , hopes to eliminate its pension fund liability completely ; analysts say it could raise almost $5,000m by selling a 25% stake in the computer services giant , and Lehman Brothers automotive analyst Joseph Phillippi said he expects it either to sell a stake or return to the equity markets ; officials from both the General and British Telecommunications Plc say that any deal for the UK phone giant to buy a stake in EDS is far from certain . |
| 11 | There is , for example , an unwritten clause insisting that franchisees must agree to adopt a community project . |
| 12 | Bettleheim in The Uses of Enchantment provides an apt summary of what a story must do to hold a child 's interest and ‘ enrich his ( sic ) life ’ . |
| 13 | Similarly , the manager in charge of a local authority department may need to give a lead to others in defining the role and objectives of that department . |
| 14 | On the other hand , I in the States may need to contact a manufacturer in England . |
| 15 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 16 | If they cause very high casualties the enemy units may have to take a panic test in the same way as for missile casualties . |
| 17 | If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure . |
| 18 | Some candidates may choose to take a course and gather evidence of competence in parallel . |
| 19 | The defendant may wish to make a statement under caution which may prove or help to prove these elements . |
| 20 | Each defendant must submit to counsel a week in advance a couple of hundred words summarising his life , and this enables counsel to prepare their questions . |
| 21 | A new artist with this sort of deal should expect to receive a royalty rate of 10–14 per cent of the retail price . |
| 22 | Astute readers will note that our pages look different this week ; and those who know about journal redesign might expect to see a trickle of editorial blood emerging from The Lancet 's front door . |
| 23 | A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly . |
| 24 | So there was , Grizel Huntley acknowledged , and it would be a great deal better if Penny could manage to think a bit more positively . |
| 25 | Parliamentary arithmetic dictated , therefore , that Labour would have to produce a package which was acceptable to at least one of the opposition parties . |
| 26 | No one in his right mind would want to start a fight in such a place as this . |
| 27 | Nobody in his right mind would try to fill a bath with a hole in it and so , I reasoned in my simple way , let the poor soul get on with it and let's all have a bit of peace . |
| 28 | He noted on 1 November that in the future the United States would have to walk a tightrope between the newly independent states and the old colonial powers . |
| 29 | He might have known that even someone as sensible as Miss van Wiliamsburgh would try to make a play of this sort . |
| 30 | where the light would strain to turn a corner |