Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When sulphate availability is increased sulphate reducing bacteria proliferate and eventually may outcompete methanogens when the sulphate supply is sufficient . |
| 2 | A previous decision should not be departed from merely because the House considers it to be wrong and only rarely should questions of construction be reconsidered . |
| 3 | The treatment prescribed in may cases is either vitamin B6 or the contraceptive pill ( only around 20% of respondents found either to be helpful ) . |
| 4 | Anthony Gale and Tony Chapman have edited together may chapters , on everything from bargaining to being interviewed to death , from the other books in the ‘ Psychology for … ‘ series . |
| 5 | Not only may firms be unable , for reasons of bounded rationality , to work through the complex mathematics of these models , they may not have to because the answer is to them so obvious . |
| 6 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 7 | Not only may law influence human conduct but human conduct may influence the content of the law . |
| 8 | Not only may viruses incorporate themselves into our DNA , but there is now a suggestion that some viruses at least may have arisen from bits of our own DNA which have escaped from our cells and become so modified as to be capable of independent existence . |
| 9 | Not only may policy have to be carried out in a discretionary approach , but the authorities may be constrained to , |
| 10 | Not only may churchmen have lost kinsmen in the recent fighting , but enemy harrying had almost certainly resulted in extensive damage to church lands and possessions . |
| 11 | So let's sort of think about attitude , keep back , keep ourselves safe . |
| 12 | may God be true , Bow down may God in you . |
| 13 | Bow down may God be true , Bow down may God in you . |
| 14 | Bow down may God be true , Bow down may God in you . |
| 15 | Bow down may God in you , bow down may God in you . |
| 16 | Bow down may God in you , bow down may God in you . |
| 17 | Much may hinge upon points that the typical executive might understandably regard as irritating technicalities . |
| 18 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 19 | So may demonstrations , mass boycotts of elections and such like political activities . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , as so may women have discovered , it is not as simple as that . |
| 21 | Clause 9.15.2 may in particular be considered objectionable and so may clause 9.15.3 for that matter . |
| 22 | So may Moore , because he had them too . ’ |
| 23 | The images , the icons , are simply so many symbols ; so may pegs to hang the spiritual ideas upon . |
| 24 | It seems likely that just as extremes of neglect may have long-term deleterious consequences , so may overprotection . |
| 25 | ‘ As she uses you , she trusts , so may Glendower use her brother Edmund , who is also a prisoner . ’ |
| 26 | But then , as we 've also remarked , so may Eeyore be lying . |
| 27 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You must be patient , ’ he said , ‘ and so must I. The one rule . |
| 29 | Circumstances and people change , and so must structures . |
| 30 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |