Example sentences of "and [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The goat may bleat loudly and persistently and may go off her food ; she may jump other goats or be jumped by them . |
| 32 | Tank care : They are sensitive to moves and may go off their food . |
| 33 | A volunteer normally offers to spend two or three hours per week as a companion to a former patient and may go out with the person or help him with specific tasks . |
| 34 | Psalm 104:30 : ‘ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created , and thou renewest the face of the ground ’ refers to the animal creation , and may mean not so much that the Spirit created them , but , as in Genesis 2:7 , that God breathes his life into the already moulded form of animals and man . |
| 35 | Mammalian membranes have an enormously diverse composition and may contain over 100 distinctly different lipids . |
| 36 | The specialist brochures should be designed to elaborate on particular features for particular consumer groups , and may contain more diagrammatic and other illustrative material to do this . |
| 37 | This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck . |
| 38 | If the preservation of the protein structure in metal-free forms is a preferred feature in biological systems , it imposes constraints on the evolution of these proteins and may explain why evolution seems to have disfavoured highly charged metal clusters and why the more hydrophobic porphyrin systems dominate in higher organisms . |
| 39 | Recent studies have shown that rapid molecular events occur in the spinal cord after noxious peripheral stimulation and may explain why pre-emptive analgesia is often difficult to show . |
| 40 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 41 | This makes the transaction less attractive to underwriters who are looking to invest in the offeror and may explain why , in practice , it is rare to see an open offer being made to shareholders . |
| 42 | Presumably on many issues , and in many situations , attitudes in everyday life do change , and may change quickly . |
| 43 | It can and does change , even from year to year ; and may change appreciably from decade to decade . |
| 44 | Barium studies seem to be insensitive to microscopic involvement and may detect only more severe cases . |
| 45 | Utah 's renowned salt flats are disappearing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , and may disappear completely within decades . |
| 46 | If a constant rate of turn is now maintained , the sensation of turning lessens and may disappear altogether . |
| 47 | Some horses buck or ‘ rear ’ and may do so for any of a large number of reasons . |
| 48 | The private sector also plays a part , and may do so increasingly , notably in the provision of private domiciliary care . |
| 49 | On trade and other issues , Japan has caved in to outside pressure countless times before , and may do so again . |
| 50 | ‘ Fish kept us out in 1972 , and may do so again , ’ says Gro Harlem Brundtland , the prime minister . |
| 51 | I therefore am of opinion that a trading corporation may sue for a libel calculated to injure them in respect of their business , and may do so without any proof of damage general or special . |
| 52 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 53 | If this happens the scab may bounce about with great speed and energy within the turret and may do as much damage as if the shell had actually penetrated . |
| 54 | The infection is usually blood-borne and may infect almost any organ in the body . |
| 55 | Steve Bull , Wolverhampton 's England striker , has a hamstring injury and may miss tonight 's Littlewoods Cup tie with Aston Villa at Molineux . |
| 56 | Do n't over-apply or you 'll end with clumps that look hard and unnatural and may flake off — separate with a mascara comb or an old , clean wand . |
| 57 | The level of service offered varies according to the expatriates ' needs and may consist simply of handouts — printed property sheets with information of what is available . |
| 58 | However , the skin does tend to become more sensitive when you 're expecting and may react adversely to certain products . |
| 59 | Icebergs are notoriously unstable , and may flip over at the touch of a careless finger or the thump of a careless boot . |
| 60 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |