Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 2 | The evidence actually tends to be ambiguous ( West 1969 ; Jones 1979b ) as indications of timberwork at the lip of the pit may be connected with the superstructure and planking in the base may have fallen from the walls or roof lining . |
| 3 | Strong attitudes may have formed by then and teaching of avoidance skills may be too late to immunise children effectively against the pressures to smoke . |
| 4 | A taxpayer may have emigrated to the Channel Islands . |
| 5 | After washing sufficient numbers may remain on the hands to cause harm and the skin may become recontaminated from taps , the towel dispenser and the exit door of the washroom . |
| 6 | The Listing will be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this manual . |
| 7 | The Listing will then be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this section . |
| 8 | When the user selects this option the Listing will be prepared as specified , with any customised features the user may have selected via Option 4 Amend Configuration Setup which is described later in this section . |
| 9 | Such clubs may have contributed to the desire for respectability of many seamen . |
| 10 | The consequence of what Nicholls may have intended as a politic and eirenical statement was suspension , degradation , and imprisonment . |
| 11 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 12 | It should be added that contestability may have changed over time , especially within individual currency sectors . |
| 13 | And whatever attractions Church and throne may have had for the peasantry , their hold on educated society was being slowly eroded . |
| 14 | Whilst the confrontation between the Spanish Republic and its right-wing opponents may have differed in significant respects from the events surrounding the death of democracy in , for example , Italy , Germany and Austria — not least because in Spain there was a three-year civil war — the underlying similarities were real enough . |
| 15 | Police believe the gang may have transferred to a waiting car . |
| 16 | They were probably derived from some sort of segmented worm ( annelid ) — a few scientists adopt the view that different arthropods may have come from different and separate worms , independently , which became ‘ arthropodized ’ by acquiring an external skeleton . |
| 17 | Over two years , let us say , £100,000 of income may have accrued to the settlement . |
| 18 | Hancock 's Half Hour may have finished for him , but there was another big radio show on the way . |
| 19 | The original text may have consisted of 153 words , but many of these are function words and a further number produces no alternative candidates when put through the simulator . |
| 20 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 21 | Cyclops may have originated with the Arimaspians , a one-eyed race from Scythia who coveted gold and were constantly fighting gryphons for access to their caches of treasure . |
| 22 | A year 's preparation may have gone into the assembling of a fleet of warships and transport vessels . |
| 23 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 24 | In explaining the fall in mortality , some weight must be given to the increasing wealth of Europe which made possible better feeding and better housing — however slight the improvements may have seemed to the poor . |
| 25 | Some of the improvements may have originated from his brother Jonathan , who had set up a flourishing instrument-making business in Rotterdam . |
| 26 | For secondary school teachers of mathematics who have been eager to respond to the call for investigative work , the introduction of GCSE coursework assessment may have come as a rational consequence of what they see as timely changes in the curriculum . |
| 27 | He says : ‘ While there is no doubt that the Causey Mounth once was a public right of way , it is likely that some sections of the route may have fallen into disuse . ’ |
| 28 | Brampton may have fought for Edward IV during the political upheavals of 1469–71 . |
| 29 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 30 | Market estimates for yesterday 's intervention put the Bank 's purchases of pounds as high as $500m , and there were indications that the authorities may have intervened to a similar extent the day before , when sterling fell almost 6 pfennigs . |