Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 32 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 33 | Adopters may experience psychological tensions , such as : |
| 34 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 35 | Participants may experience considerable pain , grief , frustration and bitterness because adoption is a bereavement situation , involving loss of identity and knowledge of birth parents . |
| 36 | A neighbour , for instance , may experience considerable financial hardship if his property is flooded , and if this is repeated may be unable to obtain insurance cover . |
| 37 | The authorities may experience considerable difficulties in controlling the money supply . |
| 38 | Some people feel it as no more irritating than the sting of a nettle , and have survived multiple stings ; others , who are allergic to the venom , may experience unpleasant effects or worse from a single sting . |
| 39 | Fat lesbians and fat heterosexual women may experience fat oppression in different ways , but it is present for both . |
| 40 | Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section . |
| 41 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 42 | Section 245 provides that if it appears to the directors that any annual accounts of the company or any directors ' report did not comply with the provisions of the Act they may prepare revised accounts or a revised report . |
| 43 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 44 | Some authors have suggested that somatostatin may act by a direct vasoconstrictive effect on the splanchnic arterioles or may lower intestinal vasodilating hormones and glucagon . |
| 45 | Therefore , youngsters may swallow appreciable amounts of toothpaste . |
| 46 | That word ‘ supposed ’ may anger Jewish readers , but Yad Vashem is not so much a memorial as a political statement . |
| 47 | Whether or not the testing of nuclear weapons in the early 1960s caused a significant decrease in stratospheric ozone may remain controversial , but it is generally agreed by researchers that a future large-scale nuclear exchange with detonations totalling 5000–10,000 million tonnes would lead to substantial depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 48 | Avoidance involves allowing cell sap to concentrate , so reducing its freezing point ; in this way frost-hardened plants may remain ice-free and physiologically active for many days at temperatures well below 0°C . |
| 49 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 50 | There may remain other discrepancies in the treatment of copyright works within the EC . |
| 51 | Shallow ponds freeze to the bottom in winter ; deeper ones may remain unfrozen at depth , providing a still , protected habitat for overwintering fish , larvae , eggs and spores . |
| 52 | These evaluations may remain confidential and are expected to guide self-development . |
| 53 | Your Royal Highness , Mr Chairman , Commodores , Ladies and Gentlemen , I am not absolutely sure whether this microphone system will work if I stand what I do know is , however , that I would be a larger target for you and under the circumstance I will , if I may remain seated . |
| 54 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 55 | The first part of the puzzle is resolved by recalling that only free neutrons decay ; the ones locked up in atomic nuclei are stable on any timescale comparable with the age of the Universe ( about 15 billion years ) although they may remain stable for ‘ only ’ about 10 years overall . |
| 56 | The extra and fruitless work which these new procedures often engender may remain worthwhile if some new but positive ‘ leads ’ are also found . |
| 57 | In Ethiopia , in the midst of war and facing famine , CAFOD is working with thousands of people in a dozen communities who are seeking to protect the topsoil in their fields , building irrigation channels , planting trees and learning new farming techniques so that millions of acres of farmland in their country may remain fertile . |
| 58 | A six-mile stretch at the southern end of the M1 was shut yesterday and may remain closed all today . |
| 59 | This means that science can have two histories , which constantly intertwine but never resolve , with one evaluated as positive , the other as negative and therefore silently suppressed even though it may remain determining . |
| 60 | To avoid such costs of duplication some specialised departments ( eg data processing , the legal department ) may remain centralised . |