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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	The enormous handicap such a tail gives a male may in itself be what attracts the female to the male .
2	They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit .
3	Bach 's Sarabande from the E minor Lute Suite may at first seem to be a freely flowing melody ; in reality , it is a skilful decoration of what was probably a simple basic conception : The rhythm ( bar 2 ) is really a diminution of ( bar 4 ) ; the quavers in bar 1 are echoed in augmented values in bar 3 ; while the note succession in bar 1 is used again to form bars 3 and 4 .
4	So incomes in other countries rise ( also by a multiplier effect ) and some of this rise may in turn be spent on United Kingdom exports .
5	For a start , a lectern ought to be the right height for each speaker .
6	A user may after a while remember that " Surgery " is represented by L:4:7 and he may remember that " The stomach " is represented by the symbol L24 .
7	But it , it need n't necessarily be erm the kind of direct material gain in terms of well we need to go beyond rent reduction because rent reduction is not , has n't given us enough , because in theory rent reduction ought to be giving you as much you need .
8	For reasons which are fairly obvious this procedure of bargaining may in some societies lead to the endorsement of highly wicked principles as that society 's doctrine of justice .
9	Where the lessor recovers possession after the making of an order under s 138(3) above , the lessee may at any time within six months from the date on which the lessor has recovered possession , apply for relief ; the court may grant the lessee relief , subject to such terms and conditions as it thinks fit ( s 138(9A) ) .
10	Erna Wright , one of the chief apostles of Dr Grantly Dick Read in England , wrote , ‘ The experience ought to be shared as part of Togetherness . ’
11	If so , this November 's mayoral election ought to be timely .
12	Erm and that that really needs to be carefully assessed as one moves towards some conclusions on where that new settlement ought to be .
13	From the Federation 's point of view , er I have substantially difficult , a difficulty , in guiding you as to where the new settlement ought to be , because in effect I would be choosing between members , and that is a certain route to my unemployment , if I were to do that , and I do n't wish to be unemployed .
14	to bringing the claim , if it is pursued , the claim maybe good , it maybe bad and it depends upon the circumstances of the underline agreement , that 's one example where something maybe good or it maybe bad , it 's like an intellectual property ride , depending on how you exercise the right , it maybe good or it maybe bad , if you use it to block parallel imports or for some anti competitive purpose then it may be bad , erm it , it 's not necessarily the case that if you have a clause in the contract it is always in every circumstance bad , where the clause itself allows the undertaking concerned , to exercise it in a particular way , now , erm so so that as a matter of principal not all clauses could be automatically said in a standard form contract to be good or bad and it may depend upon how they are to exercise in a particular way , what we have said is the , the , erm , the provision in on , on the , the unfettable authority , er , erm and powers of the agent , erm is void it would depend upon the facts of each individual case whether or not every other restriction as your Lordships seen again only through and the cases they side , erm that other provisions in a standard form contract may on the facts be had , it depends upon the significance of the particular clause in the circumstances , my Lord in , in answer to your Lordships question , I do n't think it necessary follows that every clause is bad , but we do say it depends upon the facts and we have pleaded that not all loss might be erm defensible against .
15	This is set out as follows : ( 2 ) Where a person has entered into a contract after a misrepresentation has been made to him otherwise than fraudulently , and he would be entitled , by reason of the misrepresentation , to rescind the contract , then , if it is claimed , in any proceedings arising out of the contract , that the contract ought to be or has been rescinded , the court or arbitrator may declare the contract subsisting and award damages in lieu of rescission , if of the opinion that it would be equitable to do so , having regard to the nature of the misrepresentation and the loss that would be caused by it if the contract were upheld , as well as to the loss that rescission would cause to the other party .
16	Of morphological interest is their evidence that the nervous system is not very much more conservative in its evolution than are the muscular and exoskeletal systems : muscles which seem to form an integral part of one segment may in part be innervated from the ganglia of other segments .
17	In the event of the Board terminating your appointment other than in circumstances of gross misconduct on your part or wilful neglect by you of your duties then the Board may in its discretion determine to pay you compensation in respect of that termination .
18	( 4 ) On renewing a licence under this Part of this Act a licensing board may by order , to be served on the holder , direct that , within a time fixed by the order , such structural alterations shall be made in the premises comprising the canteen as the board thinks reasonably necessary to secure the proper conduct of the canteen ; and if , when application for renewal of the licence is next made after the time fixed by the order has expired , it is not shown to the satisfaction of the licensing board that the order has been complied with , the licensing board may refuse to renew the licence .
19	How many of the ramifications of a particular decision ought to be explicitly taken into account by the decision-maker ?
20	In fact , one would expect a public authority always to be inclined to search for a way to reach the same decision legally the second time round , if only to save face ; and the incentive to do so would be even greater if it were likely to be required to pay damages should it decide that its earlier loss-causing decision ought to be changed .
21	The guardian ad litem takes the view that this decision is against the interests of the child and that in some way the inconvenience of the decision ought to be got round .
22	belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall-back position which Good has given , which they the trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but are feeling very much on surpluses , that the money is there first of all to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels , whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company .
23	I M P A Cs belief is that er if you get the trustee balance right , that 's the first place where the decision ought to be made , but there should be a fall back position which Good has given , which they they trustees could go to the regulator in the case of er not being able to solve things , but our feeling very much on surplus is that the money is there first for to pay pensions and until pensions are paid up to Inland Revenue levels whatever they are , then no money should go back to the company .
24	The text may of course be printed in the programme , but this is by no means a common usage .
25	We now understand in a general way how strong any particular solid ought to be and why it falls short of that strength in practice .
26	I should be the last to imply that a Member of Parliament ought to subordinate his judgement of what is wise or right to even the most overwhelming majority of opinion .
27	That Elections of Members of Parliament ought to be free .
28	Although erm his second idea second way of limiting the possibilities on is rather more difficult to accept now and his claim is that we should n't pay members of parliament , that people who go to parliament ought to be doing it out of duty and not out of er interest .
29	In the case of information relating to er say client A which is obtained by the auditor while auditing client B , the auditor ought as a matter of sound practice normally to use the information to make further enquiries for the purpose of the audit of A. These interpretations have been set out more fully in the statement of auditing standards and the professional guidance issued by the auditing practices board that will accompany this legislation and as matters of courtesy to the house er Madam Deputy Speaker , I ask that a copy of that be placed in the library .
30	While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it .