Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses .
2 It weighs a chunky 2,601 pounds — but the pay-off is a back seat that can seat three in reasonable comfort .
3 any areas of uncertainty that would impact on price ;
4 Clear indication should be given of any areas of uncertainty that may impact significantly on the amount of the offer ;
5 Any areas of uncertainty that may impact significantly on the quantum of your offer .
6 Political parties can no more escape from their pasts than can individuals .
7 Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) .
8 Wives coping in these conditions were more likely to patronise fried fish and ready-cooked meat shops than would housewives with ranges or gas stoves .
9 The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions .
10 He is sure to take some beating with more enterprising tactics and can hand out a lesson in the New University Maiden .
11 Others ( e.g. Hatcher and Shall ice , 1983 ) have drawn upon Phizacklea and Miles 's North London research which , although in the final analysis conceives of racism as a form of false consciousness , nevertheless gives a more active , reasoning or reflexive role to the working class racist subject .
12 Moreover , while Phizacklea and Miles believe that changes in the material circumstances of the working class can provide only a partial solution to the problem of racist ideologies , the political project of the transformation of capitalism and working-class conditions advocated by Hatcher and Shall ice ( and other left antiracists in education ) squeezes out of consideration the rather important caveat entered by Phizacklea and Miles about the prospects for change in racist ideologies as a result of changes in the material base .
13 Italy could also perform better than the EC average of 3% as could Spain — with the admitted advantage of starting from a smaller base .
14 Profitability and exposure analysis reports can be produced for groups of related clients as can analysis of time spent on non-client work .
15 Overall , the university system is projected to grow , and those institutions that can delivery the largest number of ‘ fees-only ’ students ( ie those whose numbers are not linked to infrastructure or staffing ratios ) are getting the biggest increases in teaching funds .
16 Thereby did the diabolical Powers seek to mutate the substance of the universe and to destroy Man 's far-flung yet ultimately frail empire of sanity — a sanity that must needs defend itself with unrelenting savagery …
17 On continental Antarctica two species of penguins , emperors Aptenodytes forsteri and Adelies Pygoscelis adeliae , are the most prominent breeding birds ; both breed colonially in groups that may number tens or hundreds of thousands .
18 On 2,185 kilometres of beach — about 15 per cent of the British coast — 170,000 individual pieces of litter were collected , more than 23,000 sanitary products , 38,000 cans and 57,000 plastic bottles and can carriers .
19 The Datapath Magician is a very impressive piece of equipment and must rate as an absolute must either for those users wanting more colours than their 512K card can manage or for those who find the screen redrawing speed of Windows too slow .
20 Where cast-iron columns support timber beams , the exposed surfaces of the beams may char , but they do not expand and generate lateral movements on columns as might steel beams or iron beams .
21 but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street
22 Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves
23 Is this sufficient for inverts and would reflectors make any improvement ?
24 The concluding words of section 18(1) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 provide for the consequence of an adjudication in these terms : ‘ and thereupon the property of the bankrupt shall become divisible among his creditors and shall vest in a trustee . ’
25 Lāla Bahādur started to play with its stringy tail — twirling it round in the air , twisting and tugging it back from the socket — trying to provoke a reaction that would jar it to life .
26 ‘ There are other places that can stage fringe drama but we really are ideal for small-scale dance , ’ Layhe says .
27 For example , though the population of asteroids that can crater Mars today shares some members with the population that can crater the Earth and the Moon , the populations have their own distinct members as well .
28 Japan 's ruling Liberal Democrats would no more dare sanction an open-door policy for Asia 's migrant workers than would Britain 's Conservatives risk letting in thousands more from Jamaica or Pakistan .
29 Used as embellishments to ornate metalwork , the garnet may have originated from any of the main world sources , Egypt , Britain , Turkey , Scandinavia , Ceylon and may parts of Europe .
30 There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ?
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