Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 2 | A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling . |
| 3 | Today , when even Catholic priests are prepared to advocate radical departures from conventional morality , Eliot 's views may appear nostalgically old-fashioned . |
| 4 | Professor Stone 's views may differ greatly from Mr Irving 's , but one thing they ARE agreed on is that these diaries are genuine . |
| 5 | If the chronic form of inflammation occurs simultaneously all over the body , as can happen in rheumatoid arthritis , the sufferer may feel physically weakened by the strength of the reaction . |
| 6 | However , the hard part of Operation Restore Hope may have only just begun . |
| 7 | A clue to the violence of the break-up may lie also in the balance of weaponry inside Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | There are two main ways in which the weak link may break down : a ) Confusion from conflicting illusory information received in the brain from different sensors , eg your eyes and the balance mechanism of your ears . |
| 9 | His farming experience may prove particularly useful for the vast acres of Sedgefield a constituency stretching from Piercebridge in the West , round the skirts of Darlington and to Wheatley Hill and Wingate . |
| 10 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 11 | A solid modeller may employ either or both in an attempt to construct a general model definition . |
| 12 | Cinema may come more naturally to driven Americans , bustling Italians or even philosophically-minded Frenchmen but , when British filmmakers actually confront their national inhibitions , amazing things do happen . |
| 13 | The stopwatch may suggest otherwise but so what . |
| 14 | Other experimental studies have supported the idea that frost weathering is likely to be more effective in alpine and marine arctic environments , where freeze-thaw may occur diurnally , than in polar regions where freezing and thawing are predominantly seasonal phenomena . |
| 15 | The avoidance of blackmail may become so over-riding an objective that it obscures all other logic . |
| 16 | Getting such an installation — currently available for some forty GA aircraft types — approved by the CAA may add considerably to the cost of hardware and labour , as the British Gliding Association has been finding out . |
| 17 | The effort involved in the activity of penance may become less rigorous as the self achieves a habit of self-control born out of self-knowledge , although , clearly , the kind of self-awareness which is the necessary ingredient for penance must constantly be maintained . |
| 18 | Even though their skills may date back thousands of years , faith-healers and spiritual healers continually come under fire from the medical profession and lay people alike . |
| 19 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 20 | Similarly , in those organisations that are becoming increasingly reliant upon information technology then those with computing skills may become more powerful . |
| 21 | Moreover , the risk that conventional conflicts may get out of hand and degenerate into nuclear disaster is one with which mankind will have to live for ever , and it strengthens the argument for attempting to keep conflicts within some kinds of bounds . |
| 22 | Sebaceous glands slow down now and your skin may feel very dry and taut so avoid harsh toners . |
| 23 | The skin may take on a white , waxy appearance with thin slits or ‘ cuts ’ on the surface . |
| 24 | The manager of each package to be updated is checked to determine whether the specified user may carry out the changes . |
| 25 | A user may point out that an attribute is missing from an entity , or that a relationship between entities is one-to-many and not one-to-one as implied by the entity-relationship diagram . |
| 26 | The state of the M25 has led to suggestions that bigger and better roads may lead only to worse jams . |
| 27 | The owner of the foot may suffer just as much pain but is likely to be far more forgiving to the clumsy perpetrator than to the sadistic one . |
| 28 | However , the GP may subcontract out the screening visits/consultations to other health professionals working under his or her direction . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , some branded products may offer only marginal advantages over much cheaper generics . |
| 30 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |