Example sentences of "[modal v] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is perhaps better not to try to make a bizarre idea for a murder the seed in your mind for a book , though when you have devised your plot you should of course make the actual circumstances of the murder as attention-grabbing as possible . |
| 2 | It must in effect become the actual embodiment of the idealized , phantasied parent of early childhood , the parent who is omnipresently nurturing , omnisciently caring and omnipotently protecting . |
| 3 | Those principles required the elimination , not only of existing restrictions and discrimination relating to the exercise of occupational activities , but also of any barrier which might in practice prevent the effective realisation of those activities . |
| 4 | For if the right of self-determination for the Finns , the Ukrainians and the rest could in practice threaten the very existence of the Soviet State , ‘ naturally the preservation of the Socialist Republic has a higher claim ’ . |
| 5 | Thus if the buying member properly rejects the tender or documents , LCH may in turn do the same and return them to the selling member . |
| 6 | It is concluded that like EGF , TGF α can stimulate pancreatic cancer growth in vivo , and this may in part explain the aggressive nature of these cancers in cliical practice . |
| 7 | Echosounders calibrated for sea water over read slightly in fresh water , which may in part explain the exceptional reading . |
| 8 | Should proceedings be commenced by a person under disability without a " next friend " , the court may on application appoint the authorised person , or person who gives an undertaking ( N 235 ) as to costs , as next friend , or may strike out the proceedings ( Ord 10 , r 3 ) . |
| 9 | It could also be spent on buying private properties which would in turn get the private housing market moving , and in the long run would save money on keeping families in bed and breakfast accommodation . |
| 10 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 11 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 12 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
| 13 | ‘ Yousefi has a wife and three children who will of course suffer the same fate if the Home Secretary 's decision is to deport him . ’ |
| 14 | These results suggest that R&D agreements will generate the highest social benefits where they concentrate on R rather than D , which will in addition reduce the perceived risk that competition in the markets created by the innovations will be blunted . |
| 15 | Over-grazed hillsides stripped of their heather are eroding into the valley , bringing down silt that will in time upset the natural balance of the water chemistry , with possible adverse effects on fish stocks . |
| 16 | We 've already decided that a typical organization will in fact use the same procedures and work instructions on all its work , because an , a typical organization manufactures ice-creams . |
| 17 | Once a well-fitting function has been obtained one can of course use the usual mathematical techniques to derive other indicators such rates of change , means or smoothed curves which suppress small deviations and show a trend . |
| 18 | Now , you find that those mirror images are not superimposable so I can in order to superimpose the red and the white if only I can on doing that , straight away the blue and the green are non-superimposable . |
| 19 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 20 | What I think is more debatable is how successfully the method can in practice avoid the following criticisms . |