Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The making of a bankruptcy order may effectively lead to a professional no longer being able to practise in his or her profession , and therefore all possibility of income generation would be lost . |
| 2 | The French national policy of encouraging younger people into farming may slowly lead to changing attitudes as older , more traditional ways fade . |
| 3 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 4 | Farmers and agricultural traders believe it may eventually trade at 2.55 , even 2.6 , against the deutschmark and perhaps even 8.8-9.0 against the franc . |
| 5 | For example , a Third World producer might win the battle to process a mineral or an industrial crop on site , but if this leads to a crisis in foreign currency because the machinery and the technology necessary for the task have to be imported , then it may eventually result in greater dependence . |
| 6 | Although many parasites can probably attack a variety of related species in the initial development of the relationship , the parasite fine tunes its metabolism as the symbiosis progresses and may eventually adapt to a single species of the host . |
| 7 | Its heart beat may speed up or become weak , its breathing heavy and laboured , and it may eventually go into convulsions or start bleeding . |
| 8 | If the stock level is consistently too low , lost sales may eventually lead to lost jobs . |
| 9 | This may eventually lead to iii Deliberate segregation within an integrated unit , where a policy decision is made to pay special attention to the needs of the dementing within a sub-unit iv Positive segregation . |
| 10 | Councils may eventually cease to be major landlords ( Coleman 1989a ) and this dimension of fertility differences will have to be analysed in new ways . |
| 11 | Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite , will cooperate with the host , and may eventually merge into the host 's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all . |
| 12 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 13 | Those unable to get to Salzburg — where an estimated 300,000 Japanese will be bound this year — may eventually listen to Mr Saegusa 's mélange in the Wave , a glossy modern building in the fashionable Roppongi district of Tokyo . |
| 14 | If the shaman is exposed to the insidious effects of the fungus for too long he may eventually turn into a giant shaman mushroom . |
| 15 | If the unfallen state is being pushed further and further out of sight , it may eventually vanish into unreality . |
| 16 | AGF may eventually gain at least part of Fondiaria 's stake . |
| 17 | It can be advantageous to put each formula on a stability test and to leave earlier formulae on storage when later different formulae are developed ; the earlier formula may eventually prove to be more stable than later formulae . |
| 18 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 19 | Radioactive material discharged from the Sellafield processing plant into the Irish Sea over the past 40 years may eventually accumulate in sandy sediments on the seabed , according to the government 's Directorate of Fisheries Research . |
| 20 | Finally , tidal range is an important factor in the generation of tidal currents ( see below ) which may locally become of geomorphological importance . |
| 21 | If au else fails , a sector which is being undermined by imports may successfully apply for exemption from restrictions on the formation of a cartel to enable the decline of the sector to proceed in an orderly manner . |
| 22 | Listening involves hearing what is left unsaid as well as the words actually spoken and to hear in that way requires the sort of attention that , sadly , we may rarely offer to our own nearest and dearest . |
| 23 | In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement . |
| 24 | If you have a message which I may properly convey to her , I will do so . |
| 25 | We should also not rule out the possibility that one may properly look to a historical explanation , just as a historical explanation underlies the fact that the comparatives of tired and spoilt — derived from verbs — are analytic , as in : ( 56 ) Declan is more spoilt than Karen Declan 's mother is more tired than Karen 's mother rather than the synthetic forms — tireder , spoilter — which we should expect from the monosyllabic adjectives which they have become . |
| 26 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 27 | This was , is , and ever will be , Dick Hudson 's , which may justifiably claim to be the most famous pub in all Yorkshire , or indeed the world . |
| 28 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 29 | Even the certainties of hopelessness may paradoxically appear as a form of hope , promising to make reasonable what is unreasonable , namely hopelessness itself . |
| 30 | There is a notion that philosophy ought only to deal with matters which are absolutely universal . |