Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 2 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 4 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 5 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 6 | The merger with the CBSI should slow down the fall in membership and thus the subscription base , though the eventual impact on reserves is hard to forecast . |
| 7 | If a husband wishes to set up his own business , his wife should think through the implications of having her husband at home all day , if she is at home too . |
| 8 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 9 | Now I think we should bring down the curtain on this little episode , and go to bed . |
| 10 | Answer guide : The answer here should bring out the distinction between directly variable costs and other costs attributable to getting the product to its ‘ present state and condition ’ . |
| 11 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 12 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 13 | We must break down the barriers of conditioning and open our minds to far higher goals . |
| 14 | He should be here , thought Taliesin again , but since he is not , since he is forever inside the Prison of Hostages , then I must carry out the quest for him . |
| 15 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 16 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 17 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 18 | The Government must weigh up the needs of vital areas like job training , social security benefits , hospital building and the changeover to the council tax . |
| 19 | But to suggest that we should toss out the Garden of Eden story because it is not necessarily literal historical fact would be a dangerous precedent . |
| 20 | While Duff has designs on a European title for Wharton , his fighter must sort out the problem of appearing to lose interest as he did against Carr when he went to ‘ sleep ’ in the fifth and sixth rounds and was in danger of losing . |
| 21 | Any application for transfer to the High Court ( other than family business ) must set out the grounds upon which the application is made by reference to the criteria . |
| 22 | It must also state whether the auditors ' report was qualified or unqualified and , if it was qualified , must set out the report in full with any further material needed to understand the qualification . |
| 23 | The plaintiff 's solicitor should draw up the schedule in four columns , for item number , description , amount claimed and the fourth , blank , for the defendant 's comments . |
| 24 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 25 | As he had done with the Axis in 1940 and the Allies in 1945 , Franco considered that the foreign powers were in his debt and , therefore , that he , not they , should lay down the terms of Spanish cooperation . |
| 26 | The report should set out the restriction in a separate paragraph ( usually placed before the firm 's signature ) using such wording as : |
| 27 | Though the appeal should set out the grounds on which the appeal is based , appeals which fail to do so will not be regarded as inadmissible . |
| 28 | Our generation must take on the task of thinking about the future , of assuming towards it the responsibility that we assume towards our children . |
| 29 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 30 | Internally , the routine use of electronic mail should cut down the amount of paper which passes between staff , and may reduce workload on support staff . |