Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , from time to time the consensus may weaken in one science or another ( — the paradigm shifts ’ , as we have learned to say ) and then , for a period , matters grow more complicated . |
| 2 | The voter may of course reject the outcome ; e.g. , with local public goods he may migrate to another community ( in this sense , the minority may have an element of veto power — see Lecture 17 ) . |
| 3 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 4 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 5 | The plans to deal with existing problems may range from straightforward co-ordination of arrangements for a person leaving hospital , to a much more complex plan with the social worker in the case manager/key worker role ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) , as will be described . |
| 6 | The purpose of an experiment in fluid mechanics may range from direct verification of a theory ( as in Figs. 11.2 , 15.12 and 17.19 ) to a general exploration of the phenomena that occur in a given situation . |
| 7 | Such arrangements may range from full partnership down to " strategic alliances " designed for pooling resources and sharing expenses and generally spreading the risk between the member firms . |
| 8 | Now let's eavesdrop on old Bill . |
| 9 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 10 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 11 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 12 | There is no geographical restriction ; the information may relate to any part of the world . |
| 13 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 14 | The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears . |
| 15 | Outside is a lovely garden where you may eat in fine weather , and occasionally the hotel offers zither music during the evening . |
| 16 | After emigration , mononuclear phagocytes may remain as immobile tissue macrophages for several months until they are stimulated or activated . |
| 17 | This reserve will be used to offset any losses which may arise for each trade or gang during the progress of the contract . |
| 18 | Problems which may arise in any family are those which may be seen as related to the Oedipal situation — the sexual attachment which arises between parent and child and which is not always worked through adequately . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The replies that you give are not evidence against you in any later criminal trial that may arise from this case . |
| 20 | Let's stay with high culture with Rolf Harris 's version of the seventies rock classic Stairway to Heaven . |
| 21 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 22 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 23 | Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force . |
| 24 | ‘ You said I was to tell you if I thought Oliver ought to go to another school . |
| 25 | ‘ We ought to go to another town , ’ says one . |
| 26 | I ought to go round this side . |
| 27 | Whilst each House is the sole author of its own Standing Orders , proposals may emanate from any source although initiatives are commonly taken by the Clerk and a common source of proposals is the reports of select committees specially constituted to consider a particular matter . |
| 28 | By the end of the war , despite tremendous efforts at expansion , the personnel of the French airforces totalled no more than 13,000 ( to get an idea of the aces ' prospects of survival , one may compare with this total the figures of 3,500 men killed in combat ; 2,000 killed on training alone ; and another 3,000 injured in flying accidents ) . |
| 29 | Still , it is also quite possible that hesitancy or disagreement may persist without one side of the dispute or one aspect of one 's personality being more rational than another , or in possession of any deeper insight into truth . |
| 30 | Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first . |