Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some photographs or illustrations may contain unwanted material and , if you do n't need it there 's nothing to stop you cutting it out ; cropping in art terminology . |
| 2 | Different objects may serve different purposes in this regard . |
| 3 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | People from some cultures may have special clothing needs . |
| 6 | There is growing evidence , therefore , that inositol phosphates may have direct effects on calcium channels within the plasma membrane . |
| 7 | Some shrubby herbs may need further pruning during the summer . |
| 8 | Be aware that milk and milk products may contain unpasteurised milk |
| 9 | The inflammatory cell infiltrate and its chemical products may influence intestinal permeability in various ways . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Severe cases may cause temporary jaundice . |
| 12 | Such interactions may have adverse effects on either product or container or both . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There can also be problems in ensuring a measure of concept-equivalence across societies , since what are nominally identical practices or institutions may perform varying functions , or have a very different significance . |
| 15 | As the code is an umbrella document , the engineering institutions may have additional requirements to suit their particular disciplines . |
| 16 | However , institutions may put forward proposals for fully integrated courses in any subject areas where they believe that a case can be made . |
| 17 | Employers may offer such contracts with a view to making them permanent once they are satisfied that you have completed the course successfully . |
| 18 | Filtering the definitions may go some way towards reducing this effect , and is suggested as an area for further research . |
| 19 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Paragraph ( c ) is a quite extraordinary delegation ( if not abdication ) of legislative responsibility , of which the courts may have some difficulty in making sense . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Ramsden says the two disciplines ought to complement each other , but that most on the classical advertising side are unwilling to compromise their careful concepts with phone numbers or mailshot back-ups . |
| 25 | A deficit of isolated teeth may indicate preferential loss of teeth , but in most cases it is more likely to be due to sampling error , by the failure to extract all the teeth from the pellets . |
| 26 | Excess mortgage allowance schemes which have the approval of the Inspector of Taxes may provide tax-free payments to employees under the Inland Revenue 's Statement of Practice ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 27 | Localized variations in voting patterns may reflect changing forms of political alignment and voting behaviour ( see Johnston , Pattie and Allsopp ( 1988 ) for a review ) , and electoral politics will be looked at in the next chapter , but here I shall consider the notion of political culture more widely . |
| 28 | The report concluded that ‘ all the evidence is that while a gradual change in eating patterns may yield slower results , those results are far more likely to prove permanent ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Seriously reduced visibility conditions ’ in relation to a vehicle used on a road during daytime hours may include such conditions adversely affecting visibility ( whether consisting of , or including , fog , smoke , heavy rain or spray , snow , dense cloud , or any similar condition ) as seriously reduce the ability of the driver ( after the appropriate use by him of any windscreen wiper and washer ) to see other vehicles or persons on the road , or the ability of other users of the road to see the vehicle . |
| 30 | For example , different treatment technologies may have different cost-effectiveness . |