Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , egg white is not the easiest adhesive to use at first and you may prefer to use a rubber solution glue .
2 We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also .
3 To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) .
4 Kitchens can be cramped , steamy places to swing a camcorder in , and if yours is particularly small you may want to use a wide-angle adapter-lens of the kind which screws onto the front of the lens to increase the angle of view .
5 You may want to hold a simple ceremony in your pet 's honour , as a last chance to say goodbye .
6 However , although the Labour Party may want to see a stronger House of Commons , there is no wish to revive parliamentary government .
7 Once the teething phase has passed you may want to get a new bed , rather than a cardboard box with its sides cut down .
8 John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay .
9 Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard .
10 Chapter III will help you to choose a rug suited to your individual needs — you may want to make a worthwhile investment , or simply brighten up your home .
11 Loss of self-respect and faith in self may make communicating a problematic activity .
12 Let's consider CREATING a National Think Tank on infills .
13 The taxpayer may seek to raise a robust argument based on fundamental Schedule E rules that the benefit should be limited to the amount which the taxpayer could obtain on a sale of the rights ( Tennant v Smith ( 1892 ) 3 TC 158 , Abbott v Philbin ( 1960 ) 39 TC 82 and Heaton v Bell ( 1969 ) 46 TC 11 ) .
14 Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates .
15 First , the agency may seek to expand a given government programme by systematically overstating the benefits or understating the costs .
16 You can also vary the number of rows knitted for the pin tuck itself , but if you want more rows knitted with the front bed needles alone , you may need to use a thinner yarn and/or pushing down wheels to help knit the stitches correctly .
17 You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues .
18 If you fall into any of the above categories , you may need to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral pill as your nutritional insurance policy !
19 Perhaps more importantly , in the search process the searcher may need to retrieve a wider range of documents in order to make a relevance judgement in the first place .
20 You may need to write a pedagogical grammar .
21 The second is to buy yourself a good waterproof mascara but remember you may need to buy a suitable eye make-up remover , too .
22 If you live in the centre of a large town , they may need to fly a long way .
23 Certainly we should want to provide a comfortable home full of modern appliances for our families .
24 An industrial manager at any level should endeavour to have a clear view of the future , and the role that he would like his business to play in that future .
25 First , they must want to see a larger number of small farms ( at present they do n't ) and this means discouraging land management by large institutions .
26 If councillors decided the school should remain open a new head teacher would be sought .
27 ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that .
28 Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke .
29 However , we should strive to include a greater variety of complex carbohydrates in our meals ; more grains , pulses , vegetables and fruit on a daily basis .
30 Similarly , he argued , Britain should seek to create a Social Charter of its own liking , rather than merely oppose the adoption of any social charter at all .
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