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

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1 At other seasons the male may entirely lack sexually active female companions .
2 These views may well apply to the centre of the empire but require modification for the northwest provinces .
3 She considers whether it is true to claim that there is a sex-related divergence of views , and the possible reasons for any such divergence , and goes on to suggest that there are areas in which women 's views may typically differ from those of men .
4 This denial is so certain that other people close to the sufferer may even come to doubt their own certainty that there really are problems or they may even come to doubt their own sanity .
5 Nothertheless there are some general patterns that may be helpfully described even though any individual sufferer may rightly say that the entire pattern does not imply to him or her .
6 In the field of archiving , low cost digitising scanners for both text and illustrations may soon make possible practical , on-site multimedia archiving .
7 Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature .
8 Warmth from a bath or an electrically heated blanket may also help .
9 In other sandstones , quartz overgrowth cements do not form until after considerable solution compaction ; here the solution compaction can be the major source of silica , although reactions between clay minerals in immature sandstones may also contribute silica ( Fig. 5.28 ) ( Bjørlykke , 1983 ) .
10 If the post office is correct , then Elizabeth II on coins may well confuse future historians .
11 The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony .
12 Although a lack of continuity of part-time workers and the difficulty of accruing experience may partially justify higher demands on volunteers , nevertheless the outer London suburbs suspect that the heavy demand of a 2-day-a-week commitment now placed on all new London volunteers stems not from these practical considerations but from a poor stereotypical image of the volunteer and from a negative attitude towards volunteering in general .
13 On this basis the Council issued a statement the following year on Procedure for Validation of Courses of Study , the kernel of which was the CNAA 's wish to respond differently to institutions which themselves differed widely in range of work and in experience : ‘ an application from a college where the staff for the proposed course is of known academic quality and experience may not require the same scrutiny of detail by the Council as in other cases ’ .
14 In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work .
15 It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution .
16 Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly .
17 In some cells , there are suggestions that these inositol phosphates may directly activate specific channels in the plasma membrane .
18 The loss of key staff can be expensive in other ways too — their contracts may well provide for more costly redundancy provisions than for junior employees .
19 In addition to the elements of a Type II system identified above , the provisions for cost-per-case contracts may also have Type II elements ( DoH , 1989c ) .
20 The reliance on government contracts may also have contributed directly to the decline in competitive potential of the American economy .
21 Material consents relate to those contracts , normally the vendor 's customer contracts , which the purchaser would like to receive formal consent for and if such contracts are not transferred failure to take over such contracts may materially reduce the value of the business acquired .
22 But the deal with Hewlett-Packard Co may well have far-reaching results .
23 But the deal with Hewlett-Packard Co may well have far-reaching results .
24 But Neptune and Uranus may well create rather more chaos than anything else so you must be careful with your spending , and anything but trusting of other people 's interference : in fact less than trusting with anything to do with borrowing or lending .
25 In your position , I would rethink my substrate , as perpetual gill irritation can hardly be good for the fish — though you will have to accept that some permanent damage may already have occurred .
26 The apparent persistence of behavioural function after brain damage may equally reflect the insensitivity of our methods of assessing function .
27 It is harder to measure how far the campaigns of the civil wars affected the great mass of the population or the country 's internal economy , but the damage may not have been particularly great , as much of the fighting was confined to limited areas .
28 Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit .
29 Clients ' attitudes may also have a bearing on which alternative is chosen .
30 Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd itself is also something of a corporate trompe l'oeil : its bonnets may still accommodate itinerant royal bottoms , but its equity — 75% of it — has , since September 1987 , been owned by ( of all things ) Ford .
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