Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment .
2 It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status .
3 We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person .
4 We have seen , for instance , that the magnitude of transaction costs in the market for control may shield all but the most egregious cases of management failure .
5 Such considerations , sometimes working together , may debar many adjectives from ever appearing postnominally ; in other instances , acceptability may be marginal enough to depend not only on these factors , but also on the particular circumstances .
6 Before long Bill Clinton , who is keen on grand visions , may rediscover these ideas and start trying to apply them once more to the global economy .
7 The practising architect may design better buildings after working with the old ones .
8 You may invoke this index form by pressing PF1/3 , the Multi-Form key .
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10 It also examines the influence of the SEM and related rules on the locational behaviour of large firms with respect to the LFRs in order to establish whether the nature and quality of investment in such regions may enhance regional development potential .
11 Like the secondary lesions they may mimic other skin conditions and can be found on the surface of the skin , or sometimes as lumps or nodules beneath it .
12 Clearly dominant ideologies are not equivalent to public opinion since the former are connected with power and may override local concerns .
13 People ought to treat one another as people , as autonomous beings , in love-making , as elsewhere .
14 Governments ought to acknowledge that .
15 Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman .
16 Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven .
17 I think on those Work in Progress meetings , I think you ought to circulate those , the minutes of those meetings , to the whole group , it would be helpful .
18 Locally elected municipalities may modify those guidelines , but ‘ The vast majority of the municipalities adopt the Ministry guidelines for all or almost all subjects ’ .
19 The British government , for the sake of the world trading system and the welfare of its people , ought to support this vulnerable initiative .
20 They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) .
21 A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause .
22 They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value .
23 A further form of regulation is the operation of monetary policy , which may affect financial institutions , either through direct portfolio controls , as with the corset placed on the banks in the 1970s , or through interest rates which affect the environment in which financial institutions operate .
24 Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels .
25 But , as Archer ( 1981 ) points out , class may affect many psychological measures , like mathematical ability and childrearing practices , more strongly than gender .
26 ( Some patients are not convinced that practice records remain confidential , while others fear that personal revelations may affect future relationships with their doctors . )
27 And local factors which may affect future conversion rates .
28 The adjustment to the indicative price is an art in that the purchaser takes account of the cost saving benefits it can bring to the vendor 's business , potential profit increases arising from market synergies and identified liabilities which may affect future profitability .
29 These findings would suggest that an interplay of various intraluminal factors , including bile acids themselves , may affect colonic function .
30 It is postulated that cytokines may affect colonic inflammation , but it still remains unclear how they contribute to the exacerbation of the inflammation .
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