Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buying process roles are considered , and attention is then turned to the issue of how suppliers may effectively sell products to Companies using multi-individual buying procedures . |
| 2 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 3 | Some of these changes may eventually affect institutions comprising the monetary sector . |
| 4 | Fourthly , the pressures and experience of practice may eventually lead practitioners to condense — in psychological terms to ‘ chunk ’ — the decision-making process to such an extent that it appears from the outside to become a matter of intuition , flair , or artistry . |
| 5 | An actively functioning organisation tends to generate its own dynamism so that it may eventually follow procedures and enter into transactions far removed from those envisaged by the treaty . |
| 6 | In this way they may successfully promote images of themselves as high spirited teenagers rather than as malicious delinquents . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if one of the parties is actuated merely by hatred or vindictive spite he may be liable and if the others are aware of this and lend him their assistance they too may thereby become participants in the wrong . |
| 8 | So two questions need to be resolved on my analysis : first , is prevention ordinary treatment ? and , second , if preventive care depends on data drawn from special treatment , does this mean that special care may be undertaken only under conditions of limited , controlled research , which is what I suspect is what care of the VLBW baby really is , rather than by adopting the current haphazard approach which may wrongly dissipate resources ? |
| 9 | Expert witnesses may only express opinions on matters properly within their field of expertise . |
| 10 | At all times , you may only allocate privileges which are a subset of your own . |
| 11 | Although many potential customers may only require parts of the information system , a decision was made that only complete systems could be sold . |
| 12 | the Problem Solver has access to all problem reports but may only list reports assigned to him . |
| 13 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 14 | So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 15 | When we look at what the centre of the political spectrum ( if we may so classify Liberals , SDP and Liberal Democrats ) mean by citizenship and its implications , we discover different emphases in its constituent parts from the Conservative formula . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the conscientious student who reads the official reports will find no mention either of the Hotspur or of the Félicité and may naturally experience doubts as to whether there ever was a Captain Hornblower , but if he once accepts Hornblower 's existence he may at least agree that Hornblower 's action in this case displayed remarkable self-denial as well as the clarity of vision worthy of a hero of fiction . |
| 17 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 18 | In a revolution , where any decision may suddenly raise questions about freedom , justice , in a new form , and where every aspect of life may be brought under scrutiny , it could follow that all action , all weighing of pros and cons , is unprincipled . |
| 19 | Such behaviour and its effects may rightly affect decisions as to where they should live . |
| 20 | In consequence , the message contained within a going concern qualification may merely confuse users of financial statements . |
| 21 | Commonly , later stages of cements precipitated during veining episodes may induce neomorphism of earlier cements , replacing them partially or completely , or may merely precipitate films of new material along crystal interfaces between existing cements . |
| 22 | Even if a share does not pay dividends temporarily , it must eventually pay dividends to have any value . |
| 23 | They were judged on the criteria laid down by the EC Directive — that they should be unbiased , should properly examine alternatives , and should detail the measures that would be taken to mitigate any environmental damage . |
| 24 | In an emergency this may prevent a dog from straying into a potentially dangerous situation , for example if you should suddenly encounter riders on horseback when you are out for a walk along a narrow path . |
| 25 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 26 | However , the arguments which underlie the concept of justiciability can also be used to support the idea that in reviewing government decisions over which the courts are prepared to exercise control , they should only award remedies to aggrieved parties in cases where it can be said that the respondent has gone wrong in some fairly extreme way . |
| 27 | A leading microbiologist says people should only eat eggs from salmonella-free flocks . |
| 28 | The authors counsel that one should only use indicators which yield convergent results , and they make the useful point that ‘ while some of the output indicators are clearly linked to scientific production , their links with scientific progress are more complex and problematic . ’ |
| 29 | This is not an argument that should only concern South-easterners . |
| 30 | It is applied by adults who read a wide variety of material with a wide variety of ‘ value ’ ( the newspaper headlines , a new best-selling novel , the horoscope for the day , financial annual reports , personality gossip , a Jane Austen novel , holiday brochures to exotic places , hints on cooking rice ) but feel that children should only read things of lasting value and of clearly-identified worth . |