Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 2 | When they 're on song they 're a treat to watch and if they can play like this all the time Richard Hill and co may take some stopping next season . |
| 3 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
| 4 | Whilst it described an ‘ Internal Market ’ where ‘ [ … ] the district health authority operates much like the Health Maintenance Organisation in America ; here the patient and GP may have less choice concerning where treatment is obtained because the health authority will make its own assessment of value for money services from other authorities or the private sector ’ , it also pointed out that there is another totally different model being advocated under the generic term ‘ Internal Market ’ , that is ‘ Automatic and immediate cross-boundary flow reimbursernent ’ , which it states ‘ carries the internal market concept to its full fruition , involving transferring the initiative from the planners and treasurers , to the market customers ( i.e. patients ) and their advisers ( i.e. GPs ) with money following the patient ’ . |
| 5 | Pine-scented products may do this and so are best avoided for this reason . |
| 6 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 7 | Likewise , ‘ employment ’ in the sense of earning money may have little relevance in a peasant society where people 's needs are met by the labour of their own hands . |
| 8 | A full licence holder who has passed a test for an additional vehicle category may have that category added to his/her entitlement but a new licence will have to be issued . |
| 9 | The taste of food may be aversive and they may feel nauseous every time they eat , for example those with renal failure and a variety of metabolic problems or allergic reactions may experience this . |
| 10 | Pat said , " I gather Bert thinks this comrade the one Jasper was talking to at Melstead may have some useful leads . " |
| 11 | As adults often have commitments which limit their ability to travel , any concentration of subject provision or types of courses in particular institutions may make some subjects inaccessible to adults . |
| 12 | Employers may offer such contracts with a view to making them permanent once they are satisfied that you have completed the course successfully . |
| 13 | First and most basically we can look at the physical nature of the coins of any given period , as the study of the amount of silver or gold bullion in a coin may reveal some historical information . |
| 14 | Filtering the definitions may go some way towards reducing this effect , and is suggested as an area for further research . |
| 15 | writes for an audience far wider than the historian of science , and although these essays may present some challenge for the uninitiated , today 's working scientist ( looking beyond the arguments about supercolliders or the effects of retroviruses on the human population ) could well profit from a dip into this book . |
| 16 | Finally , the proposals would create legal problems , despite statements that the APB makes to the contrary : the courts may interpret any references to uncertainties in an audit report as a form of qualification which requires a statement by an auditor , under s 271(4) of the Companies Act 1985 , about whether the matter is material to assessing the legality of the dividend . |
| 17 | Paragraph ( c ) is a quite extraordinary delegation ( if not abdication ) of legislative responsibility , of which the courts may have some difficulty in making sense . |
| 18 | The pig has rarely been used in physiology laboratories because of its size and temperament , but the development by animal breeders of a minipig with better temperament may change this . |
| 19 | Wainwright may play this weekend , McIntosh certainly will but London Scottish do not anticipate Sharp featuring in their first XV for the rest of the season as he is still troubled by his leg break . |
| 20 | ‘ During the warm season post commanders may authorize this coat made of white duck or flannel , to be worn with white braid , but without shoulder straps or collar insignia . ’ |
| 21 | But these reasons may have little to do with intrinsic features of their religion . |
| 22 | A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause . |
| 23 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 24 | Provided that the board may refuse such an application if the applicant , having been cited by the board to attend the meeting at which his application is to be considered , fails to attend such a meeting . |
| 25 | It does not provide that a board may refuse such applications . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |
| 27 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) On any a plication for the renewal of a licence in respect of any premises ( other tan off-sale premises ) , a licensing board may require a plan of the licensed premises to be produced to the board and lodged with the clerk , and on renewing such licence the board may order that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the business shall be made in that part of the licensed premises in which alcoholic liquor is sold or consumed . |
| 29 | the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the licence , and an occasional licence granted to the holder of a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence shall be subject to a condition that the sale of alcoholic liquor under the authority of the licence shall be ancillary to the provision of substantial refreshment . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) In granting an occasional permission under this section , which shall be in writing , the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the permission , and if the person to whom the permission is granted contravenes such a condition he shall be guilty of an offence . |