Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This may include a printed manual , extra functionality in the registered version and product support by telephone or fax . |
| 32 | This may include a moisturising treatment such as Redken 's Climatress which you wold apply if your hair is dry , brittle or damaged from the sun or constant use of heat styling products . |
| 33 | To some extent , this may indicate a lessening preference for the institutions of marriage . |
| 34 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 35 | They hold that the revelation was given through the cultural medium of one particular time , and that while the message may remain the same ( for example that one should love one 's neighbour ) this may require a different expression in a different age . |
| 36 | In each of these cases the emphasis is placed upon the transfers of mass and energy and this may provide a much-needed focus of further development for the extension of the systems approach employing the notions of rate of doing work or of power . |
| 37 | This may produce a vast array of physical symptoms including numbness or tingling in toes and fingers , tinnitus , headache and severe chest pains . |
| 38 | It would also appear prudent to encourage increased exercise as preliminary work in non-diabetics shows this may have a beneficial effect on blood-pressure levels in hypertensives ( Roman et al , 1981 ) . |
| 39 | For example , a state enterprise may be subject to close parliamentary scrutiny by elected representatives , and this may have a major impact on the public image and hence the political vulnerability or strength of the enterprise . |
| 40 | A small gallery may have space to show work in only one medium ; this may have a distorting effect on the activity of the group as a whole or of versatile individuals . |
| 41 | This may have a profound effect on the organisms development , e.g. Down 's syndrome ( extra 21 chromosome ) , Kleinfelter 's syndrome XXY ( outwardly male , female characteristics ) . |
| 42 | This is not the place to explore arguments which characterize the scientific mode of thought as in some sense masculine ( though this may have a vital role to play in our understanding of the science of our culture if it is so : see Kelly et al . , |
| 43 | This may have a significant bearing on the scope and flexibility and approach used by the contractor in presenting the claim . |
| 44 | Obviously , frail elderly people are physically less powerful than those who look after them and in certain circumstances this may have a significant effect on their state of mind . |
| 45 | In the long run , this may have a significant effect upon your ability to control your own weight . |
| 46 | Generally speaking , female workers are less likely to undertake traditional forms of industrial action , and this may have a growing impact on the role of the labour movement in future decades . |
| 47 | Now I know this may cause a terrible dilemma for Alec and Bet Gilroy from , the proprietors of the Rovers Return , and you may well ask me , what 's that got to do with this motion ? |
| 48 | Too fast an approach speed may alarm drivers already on the roundabout why may think you are going to drive onto the roundabout in front of them ; if they brake hard or swerve this may cause a following driver to panic and cause an accident . |
| 49 | Third , many of the new records will have become synonyms ; if they are relatively frequently accessed this may cause a marked increase in run times . |
| 50 | This may seem a curious exception , but it is as well to remember that Gregory would have known of the versification of Sulpicius Severus 's Life of St Martin by Paulinus of Périgueux , and that he counted among his friends the poet Venantius Fortunatus , himself the author of a poetic work on the miracles of St Martin . |
| 51 | All this may seem a curious way for a species to handle its genes . |
| 52 | This may seem a curious idea . |
| 53 | This may seem a strange way of looking at it , since we are used to viewing the police and the military as our protectors ; but we can not avoid the conclusion that , ultimately , the police and the military maintain sufficient force to implement the decisions of the state . |
| 54 | On the face of it this may seem a strange tactic for a side who , on paper , possess probably the most lethal front-line in the Premier League , but Graham , still likely to be without ankle-injury victim Paul Merson , is seeking to restore stability to stop the slump . |
| 55 | For those who see Methodism only through the solid shopkeeper image of Victorian times , this may seem a strange assertion . |
| 56 | This may seem a revolutionary step , but it is surely the most significant step we can take to ensure that , in the words of The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , education ‘ is seen by pupils to meet their present and prospective needs ’ . |
| 57 | This may seem a jaundiced view , but the evidence is disturbing . |
| 58 | This may seem a ridiculous assumption but , where there is an unvarying food supply , nature 's response is often somewhat like this . |
| 59 | This may seem a surprising claim in view of the earlier experiments we mentioned above ( e.g. Herriot , 1969 ) which support an opposite conclusion ; so we will consider the experimental results on which Forster and Olbrei base this claim with some care . |
| 60 | This may seem a profligate approach , yet just as there are difficulties in defining legal problems so there are difficulties in defining when an individual needs assistance . |