Example sentences of "and [modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 25. ( 1 ) Any Director may at any time appoint another Director or any other person being a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is a member or officer of or is working in the practice of the Company approved by the Directors to be his alternate Director and may at any time terminate such appointment . |
| 2 | 25. ( 1 ) Any Director may at any time appoint another Director or any other person being a solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is a member or officer of or is working in the practice of the Company approved by the Directors to be his alternate Director and may at any time terminate such appointment . |
| 3 | And may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage , the hairy gown and mossy sill where I may sit and rightly spell of every star that heaven doth show , and every herb that sips the dew , till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain . ’ |
| 4 | I hope that in Committee he will listen to the pleas of Members representing Greater London and the south of England because they are dear to my heart and may to some extent be dear to his . |
| 5 | Research on , for example , molluscan biology , archaeology , vegetational variation , etc. , may have Scottish areal content , and may to some extent impinge on the geology , but their relationships with the earth sciences were not straightforward , and research would have necessitated the use of bibliographical resources outwith the field of geology . |
| 6 | Temperatures during the short summer are somewhat kinder and may on some days reach 20 ° C. Nonetheless , summer or winter , this is an inhospitable environment and to be able to survive here , the mountain goat needs a special set of structural and behavioural adaptations . |
| 7 | And then comes the crucial claim : ‘ We are as tree born as men , have as free election , and as tree spirits ; we are compounded of like parts , and may with like liberty make benefit of our creations ’ ( sig . |
| 8 | may accord recognition to an S.R.O. , and may in appropriate circumstances revoke that recognition . |
| 9 | These and other examples suggest that engineering design may impose some rather loose constraints on structure , and may in some cases impose precise quantitative constraints on shape ( e.g. the shapes of bird 's wings are very accurately adapted to particular modes of flight ) . |
| 10 | Quite clearly , though , the aims of Compact are consonant with the aims of the new generation of examinations and Compact will provide new resources and learning opportunities which can be used as a basis for course work and may in some circumstances be eligible for assessment and certification by the examining bodies , e.g. as a module in GCSE or CPVE or as the basis of an entire examination such as the AEB Basic Test " World of Work " . |
| 11 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 12 | The explanation for this can not be sought in the tenses of the verbs that the testator has used , for they are all historic with respect to the time the will was made and ought on that basis to refer to no time later than that . |
| 13 | But scientists and lay practitioners alike must recognise that the terms and concepts used in alternative systems of medicine may have no exact equivalent in Western medicine , and must to some extent be-seen as metaphors ; and that standard ways of assessing therapy , notably by the double-blind controlled trial , may simply not be applicable to many alternative systems . |
| 14 | Yet the effect of the violence is as much exhilarating as horrifying … if one 's moral position is the tenable one that violence is intrinsically wrong and must at all costs be held in check , then there is no doubt that Straw Dogs is an immoral film . |
| 15 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 16 | Thus the young gallant should never ever be seen walking on foot , and should at all times carry funds enough ‘ for the expenses of a palanquin' which he should regard as ‘ the best of all conveyances ’ . |
| 17 | My immediate thought was that Frankenstein had encounted a bear , and might at any moment come dashing back and discover me . |
| 18 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 19 | The expansionists acknowledge that the great worry about devaluation is that it will be inflationary and could at best be self-defeating or , at worst , bring in higher interest rates and slower growth . |
| 20 | Our existing negative planning control provides a valuable check on the market , and would at first sight seem capable of safeguarding our heritage and resolving the conflict between private interests and the public good . |
| 21 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 22 | The phrasal appositions in , for example , [ 22 ] and [ 12 ] involve a violation of a syntactic pattern in much the same way as the epiphora in [ 24 ] , and would on these grounds be classified as a rhetorical device in a classical account . |
| 23 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 24 | In such circumstances the procedure might be able to decide the equivalence of a given pair of programs , and would in all other cases reduce the question of their equivalence to a boolean expression . |
| 25 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 26 | There could be an Asquith Government with Labour support and participation ; but this ran directly counter to the whole Labour belief in independence , and would in any event mean the greater opposition party accepting the leadership of the lesser one . |
| 27 | We know from the signed statement of the Secretary of State for Transport withdrawing the ‘ explosive device ’ certificate of public interest immunity , and would in any event have assumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary , that ‘ the Ministry of Defence retain the documents relating to Dr. Hayes ' work in respect of the Lockerbie air disaster . ’ |
| 28 | Even so , the taille can sometimes be surprisingly good , especially in favourable years , and would in those Champagnes which utilise it , represent but a small proportion of the overall blend of a wine . |
| 29 | If the Prime Minister had meant what she said , and if the Secretary of State — whom I am delighted to see taking an interest in the Bill had conveyed her message properly , the Minister would have put down an amendment , and would by this time have leapt to his feet to accept amendment No. 3 . |
| 30 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |