Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may hurt a little bit . |
| 2 | Later Duhamel and his team were visited by an immaculate Inspector-General who told them they really ought to plant a few flowers around the gloomy station . |
| 3 | Some may invoke a higher sanctity for parts of the constitution than the will of the people . |
| 4 | v. Kantner ( Case 38/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 825 the Court of Justice held that a plaintiff may invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of the place of performance of a contract in accordance with article 5(1) even where the existence of the contract on which the claim is based is in dispute between the parties . |
| 5 | All are striking , some are beautiful , others startling and a few may invoke an involuntary shudder — such as the ‘ Vogue Food Photograph ’ of oyster complete with inquisitively crawling snails and a pair of skinned raw frogs ' legs , or the ‘ Bug in Ear ’ , showing a black beetle poised at the entrance to the aural cavity . |
| 6 | If it considers that a Member State is making improper use of the powers provided for in this paragraph , the Commission ( or another Member State ) may invoke an accelerated enforcement procedure against the Member State . |
| 7 | One is that it may weaken the marriage by suggesting a ‘ failure ’ on the part of the husband . |
| 8 | As discussed in the previous chapter , relationships with kin will also be affected by the higher incidence of divorce and remarriage , which may weaken the support available to the old living alone , especially because , in such interactions , the notion of reciprocity over time is so important . |
| 9 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 10 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 11 | Changes in geothermal gradient caused by higher heat flow related to such events as igneous intrusion may enhance the thermal evolution of such material ( Teichmüller and Teichmüller , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ . |
| 13 | — which may enhance the lexicon . |
| 14 | If the nurse can assist or provide hygiene measures in a sensitive manner , this may enhance the patient 's personal comfort . |
| 15 | Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications , rather than eliminate racism tout court . |
| 16 | Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer , especially over the southern oceans surrounding Antarctica , may enhance the greenhouse effect if more ultraviolet radiation reaches the surface to kill phytoplankton . |
| 17 | A campaign for the effective use of current resources is not at all incompatible with a campaign for additional ones and may enhance the clarity with which the shortfall in support for teachers is expressed . |
| 18 | A possible explanation is that the reduced bile flow as shown in cholesterol gall stone patients may enhance the absorption of water in the bile duct and may thus produce hepatic bile with a greater total lipid concentration . |
| 19 | As found in our experiments , inhibition of NO synthesis may enhance the contraction of the smooth muscle of the gall bladder and the tonic response to CCK-8 can be prolonged , favouring the delivery of bile . |
| 20 | Histamine acting locally may enhance the proliferation of tumours arising within the stomach . |
| 21 | While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk , it also renders his portrait mundane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But , although in its twisting and turning a line may circumscribe an area and even a volume , it is not a description or an experience of them . |
| 24 | ( b ) if accepting shareholders may be worried that the offeror 's share price may fall following the " hype " of a contested takeover battle , the issue of a convertible loan stock instead of ordinary shares may remedy the situation by offering conversion at the current market price of the offeror 's shares together with a promise of a minimum cash value at a future date with a commercial yield in the meantime ; |
| 25 | The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes . |
| 26 | The rash may take one of several forms — it may mimic a host of rare and not so rare skin conditions . |
| 27 | Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs . |
| 28 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 29 | Exceptionally , a minister may override the scrutiny reserve . |
| 30 | Tonal languages also have intonation patterns which may override the basic tone of the words . |