Example sentences of "[subord] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 2 | Dr Pierre Chaplais has argued that Henry III 's action , by which he acknowledged Louis IX 's superiority over the whole duchy of Aquitaine , was more damag-ing to both Plantagenet and Gascon interests than may at first appear . |
| 3 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 4 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 5 | to the pressure in the car tyres and to keep the trailer tyres at a higher pressure than might at first seem necessary . |
| 6 | The significance of the objections we have just noted is much more important than might at first appear . |
| 7 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 8 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 9 | To write this sounds platitudinous , yet to translate that understanding into daily practice is far more difficult than might at first appear . |
| 10 | Compiling this listing has proved that there are more Japanese aircraft extant than might at first be envisaged . |
| 11 | The Birmingham School approach examines spoken discourse , seeking to interpret it in terms of a rank structure and showing that when it is analysed after the event , there is more order and form in it than might at first be apparent . |
| 12 | There are more common factors , it suggests , than might at first appear . |
| 13 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |
| 14 | Certain sectors may suffer in a bad year , for instance , salt sales may plummet if the UK has a mild winter [ as has been the case in 1987/8 ] , but product diversity usually ensures that the business as a whole is more robust and less cyclical than might at first seem apparent . |
| 15 | It also means that a care assistant is likely to see frailer residents than used to be the case . |
| 16 | With so much more of the limelight concentrated on the Test team than used to be the case , pen sketches of every member of the county cricket circuit , along with actual photographs in each case , are a welcome addition . |
| 17 | Although the Wealden pattern suggests a density of population and activity far greater than used to be thought , it was the great coastal and scarpland estates that had the most highly organised agriculture . |
| 18 | It is often considered that there is much greater sexual tolerance than used to be the case and the public response to homosexuality and lesbianism is sometimes cited as evidence for this . |
| 19 | ‘ Implicitly , if not explicitly , the doctoral thesis has come to be thought of in some countries and institutions as simply the demonstration that a certain amount of research methodology has been transmitted and received , with much less emphasis than used to be the case upon the nature and significance of the topic explored . ’ |
| 20 | The new rules as to exchange of witness statements ( CCR Order 20 , r 12A , SCR Order 38 , r 2A ) will require some witnesses to be seen much earlier than used to be the practice . |
| 21 | keep it okay for you in fact that 's who I 'd thought you 'd gone to , I thought you had called in at their house like cos must of seen his , I thought you must of seen his run out his car at |
| 22 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 23 | It urged countries to revert to containing the disease at levels that their own general health services , rudimentary though may of them were , could cope with . |
| 24 | There were pro-shah demonstrators out on the streets as well , as may of whom had been produced by the Iranian embassy . |
| 25 | In fact it may not be so different as may at first be thought . |
| 26 | or such greater percentage ( which may be 100 per cent. ) as may for the time being be prescribed . |
| 27 | Suppose somebody read to you , without telling you the author , but telling you the date — the early seventeenth century lines like this ‘ But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale and love the high embowered rough with antique pillars and and storeyed windows richly dyked , casting a dim religious light , there let the pealing organ blow to the full-voiced choir below in service high and anthems clear , as may with sweetness through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies and bring all heaven before my eyes . |
| 28 | 18.1 Any notice required or permitted under the terms of this Agreement or required by statute , law or regulation shall , unless otherwise provided for , be in writing , and shall be delivered in person , sent by registered mail or air mail as appropriate , properly posted and fully pre-paid in an envelope properly addressed , or sent by telefax or by telex to the respective Parties as specified above or to such other address , telefax or telex number as may from time to time be designated by notice hereunder . |
| 29 | 6.4 Payments shall be made by cheque in US dollars to the bank account of , details of which are set out in Schedule 5 , or to an account at such other bank in England as may from time to time nominate for the purpose . |
| 30 | It is to publish information as to the discharge of its functions , supply information to the Lord Chancellor as and when required , make annual reports , and ‘ have regard , in discharging its functions , to such guidance as may from time to time be given by the Lord Chancellor . ’ |