Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although change may evolve slowly , problem-posing can be a nurturing process with people exploring visions and building community together as they work on problems . |
| 2 | His view , however , is implicitly gradualist — ‘ a temporal progressive sequence of changes within an evolutionary lineage ’ — and there is no indication of the extensive palaeontological literature of the past decade suggesting an alternative punctuational view , that species may evolve relatively rapidly and then remain unchanged for long periods . |
| 3 | Prospects : A pattern which may evolve out of the failures above ; its failure , however , could produce a turning of the tables and the triumph of : |
| 4 | But there are national interests which may override even City interests , for a time , at any rate . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) A legal estate may subsist concurrently with or subject to any other legal estate in the same land in like manner as it could have done before the commencement of this Act . |
| 6 | The effect of genetic maldevelopment has been mentioned and may subsist in either abnormal chromosome count or in chromosomal mutation . |
| 7 | Depending on the nature of the local vegetation , they may subsist almost entirely on grasses , or on the leafy branches of Douglas fir . |
| 8 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 9 | The purpose is not to anticipate what claims B will make in his application to the Commission , which may range far beyond the concerns of the present article . |
| 10 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 11 | Erm , so let's explain why we can help Peter . |
| 12 | However , in a recent reply to Weber and Bradshaw ( 1981 ) it was suggested by Levy ( 1982 ) that the earlier findings she reported with Reid may relate not so much to language ( or speech ) representation in general as to reading and writing — that is , visual aspects of language , in particular . |
| 13 | These may relate generally to vocational skills to impart the idea that history and vocationalism are not antithetical . |
| 14 | These claims may relate either to the internal procedures of the organisation , or to its activities . |
| 15 | Guidelines may relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult language books ) or to more specific categories of books within the function ( e.g. within recreational reading , to romances or popular biographies ) . |
| 16 | ( Transparency in this situation may relate both to bids and offers made , and the historic prices of trades executed . ) |
| 17 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 18 | There are philosophical problems about this kind of approach to paintings : if the artist paints so that what is on the canvas looks to him just like what is in front of him , then the astigmatism or other defects ought to cancel out and his picture look all right to us . |
| 19 | Other individuals may assimilate more readily to London English speech . |
| 20 | Local fluctuations in price are usually short-lived , and the result of a recent surfeit or scarcity of sales in a particular market ; this may affect either rugs in general or just specific groups . |
| 21 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 22 | Similar factors may affect both corporate and personal default . |
| 23 | Capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones may affect both defence and repair mechanisms in the gastric mucosa , because they are sensitive to a variety of noxious stimuli and have been reported to play both a defensive and trophic part in somatic tissues . |
| 24 | What is sure , however , is that prevalence rises markedly with age ( see for example Kay et al , 1970 ; Campbell et al , 1983 ; Maule et al , 1984 ) , and may affect as many as 20 per cent of people over the age of 80 . |
| 25 | However the type of relationships you have may affect how you view safer sex . |
| 26 | Over-exposure to UV may affect very narrow etch-resist tracks which will be removed/reduced in width by etchant . |
| 27 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 28 | However , the truth of the problem was lameness , which may affect more than one leg . |
| 29 | But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results ! |
| 30 | ‘ Let's think how they worked that one . ’ |