Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both at home and at school , methodologies may fundamentally obstruct the negotiation of meaning and , in doing so , reduce the likelihood of deaf children enriching their language skills . |
| 2 | The medical profession is supporting one of the main foundations of the strategy — the clinical terms project — which in the longer term may fundamentally change the way in which doctors work . |
| 3 | Tadpoles normally feed on plankton and decaying plant material suspended in the water and shoals may effectively stir up the debris at the bottom of the pond , thus adding to the food supply . |
| 4 | The making of a bankruptcy order may effectively lead to a professional no longer being able to practise in his or her profession , and therefore all possibility of income generation would be lost . |
| 5 | Beecham 's comments are worthy of repetition : ‘ these two Concertos have a refinement and distinction that never fails to fall fragrantly on the ear , and offers to the musical amateur , who may feel at times that the evolution of his art is becoming a little too much for either his understanding or enjoyment , a soothing retreat where he may effectively rally his shattered forces ’ . |
| 6 | Hobbies , learning , the new role itself , more available time to spend with family and friends may effectively do this . |
| 7 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 8 | The federal environment ministry opposes such developments , but can not intervene without the support of the state government , and fears that the park may effectively cease to exist . |
| 9 | Buying process roles are considered , and attention is then turned to the issue of how suppliers may effectively sell products to Companies using multi-individual buying procedures . |
| 10 | Another flawed but striking recent movie is DOA ( Buena Vista ) , an update from the creators of Max Headroom of the classic 1949 thriller of the same name , which may detrimentally alter the plot of the original but boasts nonetheless some arresting high-tech intimations of neo-expressionist atmosphere . |
| 11 | The French national policy of encouraging younger people into farming may slowly lead to changing attitudes as older , more traditional ways fade . |
| 12 | It follows that the Convention is not a direct protection for freedom of speech in Britain : it is a persuasive and educative force which , if media interests have the patience and determination to seek rulings from Strasbourg , may slowly shape the operation of British law in favour of public interest reporting . |
| 13 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 14 | These are accumulated over many years and may vigorously colour the way we respond to all kinds of situations today . |
| 15 | Once the invariant set is attracting , there is the possibility that the unstable manifold of the origin , which first strikes the return plane at R or L and which then wanders chaotically around the strange attractor forever , may eventually strike AD and then tend back towards the origin . |
| 16 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 17 | Exploration of these phenomena may eventually revolutionise the whole way we look at the world . |
| 18 | Farmed salmon have much larger appetites , and may eventually deplete traditional salmon rivers of the resources on which the wild variety depend . |
| 19 | If one cat is always given a completely monotonous ( but nutritionally complete ) diet , day in and day out , always the same brand of canned cat food , it may eventually refuse to touch any other , new kind of food , no matter how tasty . |
| 20 | Farmers and agricultural traders believe it may eventually trade at 2.55 , even 2.6 , against the deutschmark and perhaps even 8.8-9.0 against the franc . |
| 21 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 22 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 23 | They begin to assume that their ageing parents are never satisfied , and may eventually conclude that it might be better to do nothing at all for them . |
| 24 | To these users , a visit to the doctor may eventually mean a visit from the police . |
| 25 | For example , a Third World producer might win the battle to process a mineral or an industrial crop on site , but if this leads to a crisis in foreign currency because the machinery and the technology necessary for the task have to be imported , then it may eventually result in greater dependence . |
| 26 | In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) . |
| 27 | Both the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts excluded pensions schemes from their scope , but EEC legislation may eventually change this . |
| 28 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 29 | People must be able to get the representation they trust and not that prescribed by the Government , whose in administration you may eventually end up challenging . |
| 30 | Its heart beat may speed up or become weak , its breathing heavy and laboured , and it may eventually go into convulsions or start bleeding . |