Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also involve some degree of persuasion that the customer should consider purchasing the product , or should actually make the purchase . |
| 2 | He talked about using force but knew that such a step might provoke a greater crisis or might even break the loyalty of his army . |
| 3 | A developer could go ahead without applying for planning permission , or could even ignore a refusal of permission . |
| 4 | But ‘ the humanistic subordination of music to text , the insistence that music shall have meaning through carrying words or shall simply heighten the effect of words , is as evident in religious music as in frottola , madrigal , and chanson . |
| 5 | It concerns the inherent power which any court of justice must possess to prevent misuse of its procedure in a way which , although not inconsistent with the literal application of its procedural rules , would nevertheless be manifestly unfair to a party to litigation before it , or would otherwise bring the administration of justice into disrepute among right-thinking people . |
| 6 | The final two initiatives were to continue in the years ahead , but the other three had reached or would shortly reach the end of their trajectory . |
| 7 | In 1950 , in a curious or consistent coincidence ( as Castedo Pointedly calls it $ , Pope Pius XII declared the Archangel Michael patron of police — a decision that may well diminish the archangel 's prestige in Latin America . |
| 8 | Rather , it is to say that Gusfield 's theory may continue to have explanatory power , particularly with regard to the initial motivation of participants in such a movement , and that where Wallis ' work is important is in pointing to the cultural concerns that may also underpin the rise of specific moral entrepreneurial groups . |
| 9 | The one chain that may yet escape the decline is the John Lewis ( ‘ never knowingly undersold ’ ) Partnership , which continues to outrun its rivals . |
| 10 | There is a danger that a voluntary organisation may become involved in trying to run services that should properly remain the responsibility of a statutory organisation . |
| 11 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 12 | I clutch my wad of sketches that , one day , I hope to turn into pictures that might somehow express the essence of this strange topsy-turvy continent where , believe it or not , there are birds that are scared of heights . |
| 13 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 14 | Curran also revealed that the Dublin soccer writers , most of whom appear to have written-off Derry 's challenge , have provided the motivation that might just make the difference . |
| 15 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 16 | They explained that in no way could it have come from the plant because it had the best preventive system for any smell , dust or poisonous substances that might otherwise destroy the environment . |
| 17 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 18 | I have an idea for a piece of work that might possibly provide a theme for my doctorate thesis . |
| 19 | By the same token , the airline should inform the official investigators of any suspicions or failures that they have experienced in the recent past that might conceivably have a bearing on the accident . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe that would help the lower ranked people to have the motivation and to get eager , ’ she added , while acknowledging that might merely have the effect of less ambitious ones accepting good money for being relative failures . |
| 21 | In an alliance that could well go a lot further , Data General Corp has signed with NeXT Computer Inc to resell NeXT workstations with its AViiON servers , and the two companies will collaborate in development of client-server systems . |
| 22 | It has also pledged the pair to establishing NT-on-Alpha as ‘ a premier RISC-based systems platform ’ and has them promising machines ‘ that could fundamentally change the face of computing ’ as we know it . |
| 23 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 24 | What is the point of having a bomb that could instantly destroy the city of Glasgow ? |
| 25 | That is an issue that could usefully form the basis of a CD compilation . |
| 26 | The US International Trade Commission has upheld the ridiculous decision that Japanese manufacturers are dumping active matrix liquid crystal displays on the US market to the detriment of a handful of tiny US manufacturers that could never meet the demand from the likes of Apple Computer Inc and IBM Corp , but that alleged dumping of electroluminescent displays has not hurt the US electronics industry ; the active matrix displays carry prohibitive 62.7% tariffs , which apply to imported screens but not to assembled machines that include them , while the electroluminescent displays carried only a 7% tariff . |
| 27 | One company that could still make an impact on the world computer market is Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG — but only if Siemens is serious about remaining — outside Germany — a force in the computer industry . |
| 28 | Two sets of findings in particular suggest preventive strategies that could considerably reduce the prevalence of acute psychotic episodes . |
| 29 | The US General Accounting Office ( 1979 ) sampled 243 monitoring stations and revealed that 81 per cent had one or more problems that could adversely affect the accuracy and reliability of air quality data . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to assume that changes in the steady-state responses , as measured in the above experiments , reflect alterations that would also affect the response to synaptically released L-glutamate ( for example , changes in the number , or conductance properties , of AMPA receptors ) . |