Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the sorts of situations that may arise include : |
| 2 | McKenna suggests that infants sleeping alone lose the external sensory stimulation that may stabilise breathing . |
| 3 | Others , however , will develop a chronic and progressive malfunction of the liver that may lead to total liver failure . |
| 4 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that , subsequent to the accident at the Severn tunnel on 7 December , the Government 's railway inspectorate removed and confiscated a length of self-healing cable , which is suspected to be part of the cause of the signalling failures that may have led to the accident ? |
| 5 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 6 | Feelings that may have poisoned one 's perceptions and coloured one 's actions since childhood may be found inappropriate to be carried around continually in adult life . |
| 7 | Contingents organised and supplied by churches formed a significant part of Carolingian armies ( a proportion that may have grown larger during the ninth century ) , complementing the king 's own military household and the troops led by lay nobles . |
| 8 | In addition to rigorous mechanical cleansing and effective disinfection of the endoscope , prevention of Pseudomonas infections requires thorough drying before the endoscope is stored and repeat disinfection immediately before its subsequent use to remove any organisms that may have grown . |
| 9 | And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East . |
| 10 | It can be dangerous for one to stay with his gun while the other returns to the task of retrieving the ferrets that may have emerged in the meantime . |
| 11 | The victory laid to rest any doubt that may have emerged about the VP 's continued authority following a weaker showing in local council elections earlier in August ( when the VP held only two of four municipalities , losing one and tying with the opposition in the fourth ) . |
| 12 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 13 | They will examine the way election polling was done and factors that may have influenced the findings , such as the declining proportion of people willing to answer interviewers ' questions . |
| 14 | For example , sightings of UAPs should be concentrated around active fault zones ; there should be more in hilly terrain ; reservoirs with their attendant stresses on the rock should be focal points for the effect ; and the passage of masses of air , such as cold fronts , should release any strain that may have built up . |
| 15 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 16 | ( A planetesimal is a small , solid celestial body that may have existed at an early stage of the development of the solar system . ) |
| 17 | Any doubt that may have existed as to the legitimacy of Rule 14e-3 has been removed by virtue of s.2 of the ITSFEA 1988 which states unequivocally that Congress supports : |
| 18 | It is also important to consider any features that may have existed in the vicinity of the site , as these could help determine the age and purpose of items found . |
| 19 | This implied that whatever export or collaborative potential that may have existed between the UK and Europe , was severely weakened by the need for expensive software conversion work . |
| 20 | One of the reasons behind this seemingly illogical situation in such an over-populated area is that councils are not legally allowed to take into account small sites ( aptly termed ‘ wind-full ’ sites ) that may have become derelict or vacant which actually provide a large amount of free land . |
| 21 | After that I replaced everything that may have become contaminated with metal toxins , down to the last grain of sand . |
| 22 | Having educated our clients in relation to the psychology and physiology of anxiety , the next step is to help them break any patterns of avoidance that may have become established . |
| 23 | The MNOD interpretation is displayed as a standard musical score so that the user can correct any errors that may have crept into the interpretation before it is written as standard MIDI information . |
| 24 | The Foreign Office drafted and sent a personal reply form Churchill that may have given the Shah way amusement as well as comfort " … while we do not interfere in Persian politics we should be very sorry to see the Shah driven out . |
| 25 | Make sure you complete your week-ending chart accurately , and remember : to record your weight loss for the week to record all details about any foods or drinks that may have caused symptoms or weight gain that you will not be drinking alcohol or eating foods that contain yeast next week — which is the final week of Stage II . |
| 26 | This old ballad contains lines that may have inspired a blue-grass ditty of the Kentucky mountains , ‘ Roll in My Sweet Baby 's Arms ’ . |
| 27 | One firm that may have bucked that trend is Star Computers , which has raised some £770000 by selling shares on the Stock Exchange . |
| 28 | Fanning the eggs with her fins helps to circulate aerated water over the eggs and also waft away anything that may have settled on them . |
| 29 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 30 | At a number of places his landscaping was contemporaneous with work on the house by Samuel or James Wyatt [ q.v. ] , a professional association that may have started at Kedleston . |