Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as a party , the voter may want a given person to speak for him . |
| 2 | Where a party can not protect his position by a payment into court , he may make the other party a written offer filing a copy with the court , but not to be brought to the attention of the court until costs fall to be decided ( Ord 12 , r 10 ) and similarly , where contribution arises a party may make a written offer to contribute ( Ord 12 , r 7 ) . |
| 3 | As a result of the last Communist Party congress , younger functionaries are getting hold of the levers of power and recent developments may signal a genuine wish to adopt a less hard-line political course . |
| 4 | Lawns may need a selective weedkiller to get rid of dandelions and other weeds yet leave your grass unharmed , while the systematic weedkiller , Tumbleweed , will deal with bindweed and ground elder . |
| 5 | They may need a little time to think about it , but they 'll try most things once . |
| 6 | You may need a special connector to join to an old mains stopcock ( see page 29 ) : fit a drainvalve immediately above this . |
| 7 | This stopcock may need a special key to turn it on and off . |
| 8 | Solid bases give the firmest support so may need a springier mattress to compensate . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the court orders an account to be taken and the account consists in part of costs , the court may direct a taxing officer to tax those costs and the taxing officer shall after taxation of the bill of costs return it , together with his report on it , to the court . |
| 10 | She/he may direct a chief officer to provide mutual aid to another force and , in the event of any disagreement , determine the relative allocation of costs between an aided and aiding authority . |
| 11 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 12 | The issue here is whether provocation should remain a qualified defence to murder , and , if so , how far it should extend . |
| 13 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 14 | And I must make a real effort to find one of these machines that 's working . |
| 15 | Cognitive psychologists must make a greater effort to understand cognition as it occurs in the ordinary environment … pay more attention to the details of the real world in which perceivers and thinkers live … come to terms with the sophistication and complexity of the cognitive skills that people are really capable of acquiring , and with the fact that these skills undergo systematic development . |
| 16 | to go to the other extreme and over-indulge you must make a concerted effort to curb this . |
| 17 | In the absence of such continuous assessment , officially applied , you must make a serious attempt to produce the short-term aims within your own thinking . |
| 18 | Whatever the job is , however humble or high-powered , you must make a positive effort to listen to the interviewer and answer the questions he or she actually puts to you . |
| 19 | " We must make a determined effort to win the rank and file of the ILP. " he wrote , " at the same time to avoid creating the impression that there are no fundamental differences between our Party and the ILP " . |
| 20 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 21 | The leader must choose a suitable spread to get a borrower 's loan business and yet at the same time convince participating banks that it is a realistic return relative to the loan risk(s) involved . |
| 22 | Two measures should do a good deal to grease the wheels of the City 's securities business . |
| 23 | ‘ The involvement of a second partner should provide a sufficient safeguard to ensure the objectivity of the audit , even for listed and other public interest companies . ’ |
| 24 | Korean skippers , for example , must pass an examination in plastics disposal before they are commissioned , and must keep a daily log to ensure that all plastic rubbish has been kept on board . |
| 25 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 26 | A puppy , even if he were , so to speak , given away with a pound of tea , must cost a certain amount to maintain . |
| 27 | Its gains in the South — where it must score a major breakthrough to obtain a national majority — were mainly the result of a protest vote against the two other parties . |
| 28 | The LEA English adviser should have a co-ordinating role to ensure liaison between feeder primary schools and their secondary schools . |
| 29 | Klaus Töpfer , the federal environment minister , has capitalised on his country 's environmental angst by devising a bold principle : that companies should have a legal obligation to take back — and to recycle — their products at the ends of their lives . |
| 30 | Whether the full extent of their concern , i.e. that local authorities should have a legal obligation to assist these young people , will become part of the Children Act 1989 is , at the time of writing , not known . |