Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 2 | It also examines the influence of the SEM and related rules on the locational behaviour of large firms with respect to the LFRs in order to establish whether the nature and quality of investment in such regions may enhance regional development potential . |
| 3 | Like the secondary lesions they may mimic other skin conditions and can be found on the surface of the skin , or sometimes as lumps or nodules beneath it . |
| 4 | Clearly dominant ideologies are not equivalent to public opinion since the former are connected with power and may override local concerns . |
| 5 | They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 9 | The adjustment to the indicative price is an art in that the purchaser takes account of the cost saving benefits it can bring to the vendor 's business , potential profit increases arising from market synergies and identified liabilities which may affect future profitability . |
| 10 | ( Some patients are not convinced that practice records remain confidential , while others fear that personal revelations may affect future relationships with their doctors . ) |
| 11 | And local factors which may affect future conversion rates . |
| 12 | These findings would suggest that an interplay of various intraluminal factors , including bile acids themselves , may affect colonic function . |
| 13 | It is postulated that cytokines may affect colonic inflammation , but it still remains unclear how they contribute to the exacerbation of the inflammation . |
| 14 | Moreover , it has been suggested on the basis of experiments carried out with children that the nature of a fixation stimulus may affect visual hemifield asymmetry by inducing a bias towards either verbal or non-verbal processing , depending on the nature of the stimulus ( Kershner , Thomae and Callaway , 1977 ; Carter and Kinsbourne , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
| 17 | These may affect large sections of the population in predominantly the same way . |
| 18 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 19 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 20 | The cellular density of the inflammatory infiltrate in the mucosa may affect phospholipid composition , as has been reported for colon mucosa . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 23 | Protected areas of global importance , including the Wolong Panda Reserve , may experience radical changes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Robinson Crusoe on a desert island may experience good luck or bad luck ; but he can have no rights . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 29 | Adopters may experience psychological tensions , such as : |
| 30 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |