Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Record insertion , deletion and update may involve high costs . |
| 2 | If the advice is not heeded , he warns , the current recession may spread and deepen . |
| 3 | AMERICA 'S recession may have a silver lining . |
| 4 | Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction . |
| 5 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 6 | More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months . |
| 7 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 8 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 9 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 10 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 11 | On the disappearance of the archedictyon , or of an individual vein , the macrotrichia may persist on the wing-membrane in their original positions ; their presence there is regarded by Tillyard as evidence of descent from more densely veined ancestors . |
| 12 | I worked out , later , that a ceptor from orbit may have been how my enemy had found the opening in the first place . |
| 13 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 14 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 15 | A successful male may lure and mate with as many as 20 different females ; less popular ones may fail to mate at all . |
| 16 | Each male may meet and perhaps mate with several females in the course of moving through his range . |
| 17 | Admittedly the examples all relate to men , since it is easier to imagine ways in which a male may lose the ‘ capacity ’ for intercourse but what is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander . |
| 18 | These apes are the largest tree-living mammals ; a male may weigh 80 kg . |
| 19 | Similarly , a male may crouch like a female and perform pseudo-female behaviour , being mounted by another tom . |
| 20 | Family members may suffer severe consequences from the active disease of the primary sufferer but similarly the primary sufferer may suffer severe consequences from the active " family disease " of the family member . |
| 21 | If the chronic form of inflammation occurs simultaneously all over the body , as can happen in rheumatoid arthritis , the sufferer may feel physically weakened by the strength of the reaction . |
| 22 | But there is a way through and in spite of how the sufferer may feel at the time , there will be a return to normality . |
| 23 | In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person . |
| 24 | difficulties that the primary sufferer may have in concentration id in accuracy of memory . |
| 25 | The sufferer may have significant mood swings , tending always towards depression resulting from the damaged sense of hope and other damaged senses . |
| 26 | The fixed belief that the sufferer may have problems and that these may be a cause of drinking or drug use , but certainly not a consequence of it , is the central psycho-pathology of the disease . |
| 27 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 28 | In the case of drugs this is obvious but in alcohol the sufferer may try to convince himself or herself and others that the purpose is the taste or the social sharing rather than the " feel " , the mood-altering effect . |
| 29 | READERS who care for a dementia sufferer may like to know that Counsel & Care has just published a fact sheet which could be of considerable help to them . |
| 30 | The sufferer may say that he or she uses alcohol or drugs for social reasons but is often just as comfortable , if not more so , using alone . |