Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or let's forget the whole thing . ’ |
| 2 | The plaintiff may accept the payment in settlement or may continue the action . |
| 3 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 4 | Some PCs these days can already offer this type of performance or may offer a one megabyte graphics card as an optional extra for as little as £20 over the price of a 512K card . |
| 5 | A legal culture — particularly important in local government where much of the work may be governed by statute , or may involve the regulation of activities . |
| 6 | Pseudocysts may compress or indent the kidney or may displace the ureter . |
| 7 | 1.3 " the Site " means the [ building and adjoining ] Premises described in the First Schedule The " site " may be merely the site upon which the premises are to be constructed or may comprise the whole of the landlord 's development . |
| 8 | ( ii ) Pupils should consider the notion of appropriateness to situation , topic , purpose and language mode and the fact that inappropriate language use can be a source of humour ( either intentional or unintentional ) or may give the impression that the speaker or writer is pompous or inept or impertinent or rude . |
| 9 | The adviser may feel inadequate to discuss the problem or may justify a referral using the many benefits cases waiting in the waiting room as an excuse . |
| 10 | Transient ischaemia , often with plaque rupture and formation of platelet fibrin thrombi , distal embolisation , and possibly local vasoconstriction may serve as a primary cause of cardiac arrest or may modulate a fixed arrhythmogenic substrate . |
| 11 | As the Group is vertically integrated , finished goods held by one company may be sold outside the Group or may form the raw materials of other companies within the Group . |
| 12 | It may be taken by any student as an outside subject , or may form the starting point for a single or joint honours MA in Scottish Ethnology . |
| 13 | These may either be addictive themselves or may reinforce the view that there is a pill for every ill . |
| 14 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 15 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 16 | It may not occur ; pupils may be resilient enough to deal with negative social encounters themselves , or may have the kind of personality that makes them unlikely to arise . |
| 17 | Auctions may be strict auctions or may have an element of flexibility , however the terms and timetable of the auction must be clearly laid down , normally in the transmittal letter , and strictly adhered to . |
| 18 | He may simply assist a competitor in any way which does or may have an adverse and material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 19 | ( A dog may have a birth abnormality , or may lose a leg in an accident . ) |
| 20 | Some risks may not be appropriate or may increase the premium unreasonably or unnecessarily . |
| 21 | The presentation of the result may use any of the charting methods described in this chapter , or may take the form of a descriptive narrative . |
| 22 | It may be just a surface for bacteria or may play a more active part in filtration . |
| 23 | This argument overlooks a feature of addictive disease that is often overlooked by those who currently advocate substitution with medically prescribed drugs : the addict will commonly take the prescribed drug and an additional illegal drug or may sell the prescribed drug in order to obtain a preferred illegal drug . |
| 24 | … in every Department a store of knowledge and experience in the subjects handled , something which eventually takes shape as a practical philosophy , or may merit the title of a departmental philosophy … in most cases the departmental philosophy is nothing more startling than the slow accretion and accumulation of experience over the years … |
| 25 | If he does not appear the proceedings may be struck out or the district judge may proceed with the review in his absence or may order the action or matter to be struck out ( Ord 17 , r 5 ; Ord 21 , r 1(2) ) . |
| 26 | They may prefer to say nothing because to raise an objection may cause offence or may prolong the sales interaction . |
| 27 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 28 | No set of contract conditions can or should protect the seller totally against his own incompetence . |
| 29 | How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects . |
| 30 | First papers derived from mapping theses should , if this is the only consideration , either be singly authored , or should cite the researcher first . |