Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An addition may nut he able to take up its home address , because it is already occupied by a synonym from some other address . |
| 2 | ( In earlier sets patterns may leave have a different number . ) |
| 3 | VARIOUS : Smashie And Nicey Present Let's Rock VARIOUS : Blockbuster ! |
| 4 | European Investment Bank loans guaranteed by the EC budget may amount over 1990-2 to $1.1billion for Poland and Hungary . |
| 5 | Many large firms will have official anti-discrimination policies , although the personnel management at local level may practice discrimination , perhaps avoiding hiring black workers or laying them off first in time of recession . |
| 6 | Further comment might be superfluous , except to say that the disposal of fission products should interest many chemist but is hardly central to a text on inorganic chemistry . |
| 7 | Shareholders should pre-register with ShareLink by telephoning 0922 744500 . |
| 8 | Shareholders should pre-register with ShareLink by telephoning 0922 744500 . |
| 9 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 10 | This will allow regression should LIFESPAN ABLE fail at any stage . |
| 11 | To which activities should priority be given ? |
| 12 | Cypress ' Sparc ‘ sunsidiary ’ Ross Technology shipped only about $3.9m worth of product last quarter and its continued existence should Sun not opt for the HyperSparc is in doubt . |
| 13 | I mean , there ca n't possibly be any hope now that some survivors may surface . ’ |
| 14 | The eye of the affected side may water with tears . |
| 15 | To be sure , designers on one side may pirate good ideas , may imitate design features , from the other side . |
| 16 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 17 | A large Emmenthal wheel may weight up to 80kg/200lb . |
| 18 | The main emphasis is on the various ways that these relationships may pattern and establish expectations and opportunities for different individuals . |
| 19 | But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta . |
| 20 | Marketers of personal pensions do appear to have discouraged exits from good occupational schemes and indicated that a return to SERPS may advantage employees as they get older . |
| 21 | The yellow may nymph is best adapted for rough boulders , while the marsh brown nymph fits against smooth stones , upon which its gill-like plates press down , thereby creating a vacuum . |
| 22 | In a speech in 1938 , Buchman suggested that ‘ … nations must re-arm morally ’ and the phrase stuck , the Oxford Group becoming known thenceforward as the Moral Re-armament movement . |
| 23 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 24 | The ever-dapper Neil Young : ‘ Relationships should enrichen with age . ’ |
| 25 | Relationships should enrichen with age , that kind of thing . ’ |
| 26 | In the end , recognising that either the tension must crack or she would , she found her voice . |
| 27 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 28 | The threat of another war only made it more urgent for him to preserve his symbolic status , so that he could be the French people 's supreme recourse should catastrophe strike once again . |
| 29 | Helped enormously by the continuous flow of Teddies from the toy trade , which even includes ready-made flyers in mock leather overalls , complete to the goggles and neck scarf , it was no wonder that BMISS should take-off ( and drop down ) so rapidly . |
| 30 | Her savings should tide her over two or three months at her present rate of expenditure . |