Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [noun] " 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 VARIOUS : Smashie And Nicey Present Let's Rock VARIOUS : Blockbuster !
3 European Investment Bank loans guaranteed by the EC budget may amount over 1990-2 to $1.1billion for Poland and Hungary .
4 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 .
5 That the country would be lifted from recession should Neil Kinnock step aside in my favour counts for nothing .
6 This output is also protected by clamp diodes ( D1 , D3 ) to prevent damage should inputs and outputs be reversed .
7 However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall .
8 Chi Ma Wan inmates have been threatening violent resistance should moves be made to deport them .
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 When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience .
11 This will be included in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement as an obligation which the transferor must procure. ( 2 ) Exemption from the pre-emption provisions to allow : transfers within corporate groups : transfers to immediate relatives and family trusts ; transfers by an investor which is a managed fund to other funds managed by the same investor ; " warehousing " ( subject to the control of the investor ) .
12 This will allow regression should LIFESPAN ABLE fail at any stage .
13 Leaders of some ECOWAS member countries were reported to have agreed privately that ECOMOG forces would be ordered on to the offensive should Taylor 's group renege on the agreement .
14 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 .
15 Indeed , a Marine must needs become gigantic to contain within himself how did the litany run ? — the Secondary Heart , Ossmodula , Biscopea ; the Haemostamen , Larramen 's Organ , and Lyman 's Ear …
16 Some sort of test — a ritual May hunt — She
17 The eye of the affected side may water with tears .
18 To be sure , designers on one side may pirate good ideas , may imitate design features , from the other side .
19 A large Emmenthal wheel may weight up to 80kg/200lb .
20 But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta .
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 the end , recognising that either the tension must crack or she would , she found her voice .
23 A secretariat staffer involved with the latter says multinational industry should police itself .
24 Versatile Robbie Mustoe could fill the gap should Phillips be switched .
25 Church members are again braced for disappointment should April 23rd pass quietly .
26 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 …
27 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 .
28 Secondly , it must be remembered what would happen in any banking institution should depositors start withdrawing funds which did not end up being re-deposited within the system .
29 Thus , the mosaicist must gauge , accurately , the setting of the mortar .
30 Homoeopathy is the exception and is recommended as an alternative therapy should treatment with essential oils and herbs be only partially effective .
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