Example sentences of "that [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 2 | Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea ? |
| 3 | The decision to ‘ open a case ’ marks a critical difference in the construction of and response to a person 's problems , and confers potential gains and losses ; the latter includes the danger of being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions that may threaten a person 's autonomy . |
| 4 | These are some of the milestone constituencies to watch out for tonight — early declarations , marginals that may indicate a trend , ministers whose seats are at risk and well-known candidates . |
| 5 | Never display anything that may tempt a thief . |
| 6 | The mapping of these units has enabled a pattern of faulting to be recognised in the Upper Chalk outcrop that may have a bearing on its properties as an aquifer . |
| 7 | The outlook for patients after the diagnosis of cancer of the exocrine pancreas is uniformly poor and suggests the existence of a mechanism(s) that may have a role in promoting tumour growth . |
| 8 | Any key areas of uncertainty that may have an impact on price . |
| 9 | Suckling at the breast provides a stimulus for the pituitary gland to release prolactin that may have an effect ( through not fully clarified ways ) on ovulation and amenorrhoea . |
| 10 | Secondly , MAS will search our databases of publicly available information to identify other organisations that may have an interest in [ type of industry ] . |
| 11 | A programme that may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course could be developed by adding further Stage 1 Biological Sciences modules ( see page 10 ) to this core . |
| 12 | There is one further set of theories that may provide a structure for the study of reading behaviour : the theories of play . |
| 13 | Verbs , nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group : Do n't go unless you want to ( Zandvoort 1957 ) . |
| 14 | The cockpit is well protected by a deep coaming set on the teak-laid decks , although there is nothing to stop items falling through the aft end of the cockpit , something that may become a liability when sailing in a relaxed fashion with books , Walkmans and bottles of suntan lotion lying on cockpit seats . |
| 15 | Could be that let's have a look at the first year , the first year , I just want to survive . |
| 16 | At £175 including VAT this is not a cheap sander , but you get what you pay for and for the keen d-iyer or woodworker , or even a tradesman , this is an excellent tool that should last a lifetime . |
| 17 | There was no real sense of a project , little feeling of the crusade for power that should accompany a Government 's slide into humiliation , chaos and decay . |
| 18 | I suggest to Teri that should have a share . |
| 19 | Theorists say that a stockmarket is ‘ efficient ’ if prices take account of all information that is available that might affect a firm 's future cash flow . |
| 20 | The others are less fierce , but still prohibit any relationship that might affect a lawyer 's ability to handle a case properly . |
| 21 | The appropriate policies that might influence a decision-maker are broadly similar in the two contexts . |
| 22 | The absence of any clear cut environmental influences on the variable hepatic response to alcohol has recently diverted attention towards a search for genetic factors that might offer an explanation . |
| 23 | Can you see any word in there that might start a question . |
| 24 | ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’ |
| 25 | If you expect to be arrested , you clear out everything that might give a clue or be used to incriminate you . |
| 26 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |
| 27 | She tried to think of something that might interest a defector , but failed . |
| 28 | Its tasks include finding out how the cladding around the nuclear fuel rods deforms at the high temperatures that might follow a loss of cooling water . |
| 29 | Given the divisiveness of religious opinion , heightened in England by a civil war , it would be expedient to avoid any issues that might jeopardize a union of scientific interests . |
| 30 | Any attempt to impose some sort of external watchdog that might apply a degree of accountability is rejected as compromising its secrecy . |