Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 2 | Such considerations , sometimes working together , may debar many adjectives from ever appearing postnominally ; in other instances , acceptability may be marginal enough to depend not only on these factors , but also on the particular circumstances . |
| 3 | Before long Bill Clinton , who is keen on grand visions , may rediscover these ideas and start trying to apply them once more to the global economy . |
| 4 | The practising architect may design better buildings after working with the old ones . |
| 5 | Clearly dominant ideologies are not equivalent to public opinion since the former are connected with power and may override local concerns . |
| 6 | Locally elected municipalities may modify those guidelines , but ‘ The vast majority of the municipalities adopt the Ministry guidelines for all or almost all subjects ’ . |
| 7 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 8 | A further form of regulation is the operation of monetary policy , which may affect financial institutions , either through direct portfolio controls , as with the corset placed on the banks in the 1970s , or through interest rates which affect the environment in which financial institutions operate . |
| 9 | ( Some patients are not convinced that practice records remain confidential , while others fear that personal revelations may affect future relationships with their doctors . ) |
| 10 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 11 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
| 12 | These may affect large sections of the population in predominantly the same way . |
| 13 | Frost-hardening may affect some tissues but not others ; it is not unusual for well-established tissues to be hardened but for buds and growing shoots to be nipped by frost . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The register may be rectified under this section , notwithstanding that the rectification may affect any estates , rights , charges , or interests acquired or protected by registration , or by any entry on the register , or otherwise . |
| 15 | Subjects will have been infected for varying lengths of time , which may affect these findings . |
| 16 | This necessity for innate leadership qualities may affect these managers judgement when choosing someone for a supervisory job . |
| 17 | This book will help readers to understand the single European market , not an easy thing in itself , and how it may affect voluntary organisations and users . |
| 18 | While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands . |
| 19 | Protected areas of global importance , including the Wolong Panda Reserve , may experience radical changes . |
| 20 | The idea that children belong to their parents like other possessions over which [ the parents ] may experience exclusive rights has no factual foundation and should be rejected ; children are only on temporary loan to their parents . |
| 21 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 22 | However , we are well aware that there are some students who , even with the increase in support from the grant and loan , may experience financial difficulties . |
| 23 | The functional division of policy-making responsibilities among different central government departments and agencies means that public enterprises may experience political pressures from several distinct authority sources within the state . |
| 24 | Adopters may experience psychological tensions , such as : |
| 25 | The authorities may experience considerable difficulties in controlling the money supply . |
| 26 | Some people feel it as no more irritating than the sting of a nettle , and have survived multiple stings ; others , who are allergic to the venom , may experience unpleasant effects or worse from a single sting . |
| 27 | Sometimes a person may experience several deaths in the family close together . |
| 28 | Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section . |
| 29 | You may experience some symptoms or " side effects ' from the foods under test . |
| 30 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |