Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 A king should rein in the aggression of warriors , especially of young men ; he should punish crime , keep his court a place of peace .
32 If you are part of a group with instructors then the instructors should take on the roles of the Jones and tell you the sort of things they think Olwyn will work for .
33 To help the trainees to provide their own answers , instructors should take on the role of parents or anyone else and be prepared to answer any of the trainees ' questions .
34 A national health service should take over the provision for medical care in the old insurance scheme and effectively underpin the new one .
35 Although each patch would have a back-up long-term hostel , it was intended that the mental health centres should take over the role of caring for most people with longer-term difficulties .
36 The eldest son of a prosperous producer of soya oil and saki , in Nagoya , the parents of Morita expected that he should take over the control of the family business .
37 Lini also suggested that the churches should take over the running of a large part of the school system in the interests both of efficiency and economy .
38 This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems .
39 The appointment fulfilled a requirement of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaties that a Panamanian should take over the post from a US citizen at the beginning of 1990 .
40 Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created .
41 ‘ Then perhaps you should pass on the lesson to Señor Mitchell , ’ he grated .
42 If before completion of execution , notice is given to the sheriff or bailiff that a bankruptcy order has been made , the sheriff or bailiff must hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee subject to his costs of execution ( s 346(2) ) .
43 On 31 May 1974 , the Supreme Court decided by eight votes to nil that the President must hand over the tapes to the new Special Prosecutor , Leon Jaworski , and in July the House Judiciary Committee voted that the President should be impeached .
44 It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them .
45 You should point out the necessity of co-operating with the doctor but you should warn the plaintiff that this is limited to matters relating to his or her medical condition .
46 I do not propose to go into the authorities on the matter , but in Foa 's Landlord and Tenant , 6th ed. ( 1924 ) , p. 115 , the law is stated in this way , and , in my view , correctly : ‘ The habendum in a lease must point out the period during which the enjoyment of the premises is to be had ; so that the duration , as well as the commencement of the term , must be stated .
47 We must write down the objectives of this exercise .
48 It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems .
49 But in this sense , creativity of the writer also requires creativity from the reader , who must fill in the gaps of sense with an associative logic of his own .
50 The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time .
51 Scots , in particular , should rejoice over the disbandment of a regiment , praying that at last their sons ' names need not be added to the memorials which stand in every town , village and glen across the country as mute testament to the suffering and sorrow of the past .
52 But the critic who undertakes such a task becomes a scientist , and he must shut out the ornaments of speech and persuasive language of the impressionist as dangerous guests in the laboratory of literary dissection .
53 If you have an older personal pension , you should check out the details of your plan .
54 With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit .
55 The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims .
56 I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage .
57 He must find out the reason for it .
58 I imagined what would happen if I should tear the sleeves out , or cut it up , or run to the kitchen for the tomato-ketchup and pour it all over the bodice ; if I should rip out the collar with my teeth .
59 Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory .
60 There are also fears that the increased tourist traffic will bring introduced plant and animal species which may bring about the extinction of endemic species .
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