Example sentences of "[verb] an appropriate [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The species will take the usual foods but bear in mind it is a robust fish and needs an appropriate diet — earthworms , beef heart , mussels , prawns and bits of chicken are ideal .
2 Where parties expect to do business together on a regular basis and to use fax or similar media to place and accept orders , the drafter should include an appropriate provision to avoid this problem , indicating when messages are to be deemed effective .
3 A mechanism for periodic review after what is deemed an appropriate time must , then , be built into any plan that is devised .
4 Suggest an appropriate method of investigation , justifying your choice , and suggest any problems you foresee .
5 ‘ In choosing this option , you authorise the society to request an appropriate surveyor to undertake a report and valuation as described in the guidance notes for mortgage applicants and you are satisfied and understand the conditions of engagement .
6 The plumbing involved in fitting an immersion heater is relatively minor , provided the cylinder already has an appropriate boss — see left .
7 Our role , I think , has to be , among a great many other things , to look at the over-all effect of the school curriculum , to ensure that it 's balanced , that it 's cohesive , and that it has an appropriate spread for all children .
8 Simple material can be unmistakably right if it has an appropriate urge and impulse .
9 But there may be occasions when you want to be sure that every child has an appropriate role .
10 The ability of enterprises to transfer investment from countries in which the regulatory environment threatens to become uncongenial , and the damage to international competitiveness that will result if domestic industry is subject to a more stringent regulatory regime than rivals abroad , are liable to circumscribe severely the capacity of national governments to establish an appropriate control framework .
11 To establish an appropriate baseline for the paraconductivity , we have tried various power-law extrapolations using the temperature range 1.4 T c T2T c to establish fitting parameters for the extrapolation .
12 I venture to repeat what I said in Powell v McFarlane ( 1977 ) 38 P & CR 452 at 470 – 1 : " Factual possession signifies an appropriate degree of physical control .
13 If you do not fall into any of these categories , LIFESPAN will display an appropriate error message and you will be unable to view the details of that module .
14 If you do not fall into any of these categories , LIFESPAN will display an appropriate error message and you will be unable to view the details of that module .
15 The Government aim to secure an appropriate climate in which people can plan sensibly for the future , making their own decisions about what to save and what to spend .
16 Mechanisms to excrete an appropriate quantity of the water we drink , for instance ; otherwise , since we tend to drink so much more than we require , we would eventually burst .
17 Controls , however , are in themselves useless unless they trigger an appropriate response to permit changes to be made .
18 After all , if you do not know an appropriate valuation , there may be something arbitrary about knowing what a ‘ plausible range ’ for a valuation is .
19 It was difficult enough to find an appropriate way of treating Churchill 's funeral without having to cope with an actor who felt moved to speak about it on behalf of the youth of Britain .
20 He dedicated his life trying to find an appropriate architecture for his country which was realistic and integral to that society .
21 Failing to find an appropriate site for a shot , the location manager on the new Willy Russell venture , Dancing Through The Dark , decided to mock it up by erecting a spanking new bus shelter in Wavertree , one of Liverpool 's livelier areas .
22 Their Lordships devoted little of their speeches to the possibility of allowing duress to function as a qualified defence to murder , reducing the crime to manslaughter and leaving the judge to pass an appropriate sentence .
23 He thought that protection from inflation should be sought by adopting an appropriate investment policy .
24 Reason alone insists that there has to exist a non-physical formative cause to provide an appropriate hypothesis , and in view of this realisation by visionaries in the domain of physics , bio-chemistry , biology , neuro science , etc. , a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern insight is now being built .
25 Bricks or special edging slabs are set into concrete to provide an appropriate finish .
26 We shall also take the opportunity to make some ground-clearing observations of a rather wider methodological import in order to provide an appropriate context for much of what follows .
27 It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits .
28 Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic .
29 Although practical experience was not required , Balliol decided to build its own laboratory , and asked Smith to run it , sending him off to various distinguished chemists to obtain an appropriate training .
30 I think it should be erm local councils should be able to bring their requirements from allocated sites provided they make the appropriate er provide an appropriate choice of location and size of sites erm up to the erm levels proposed in the county .
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