Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put your foot down or let's put our hands up . ’ |
| 2 | The Tribunal may reserve its judgement or may give its decision after a retirement before the close of the meeting . |
| 3 | In return , the supplier agrees to , or may assign his obligations to , buy goods or technology of equivalent value , from the purchaser or the purchaser 's country or state . |
| 4 | The supervisor may also monitor the same information or may have his own separate displays or both . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) What market position should you adopt that makes sense to those who buy or may buy your services ? ( a ) Should you adopt a niche approach to certain aspects of personal injury work ( eg paraplegia , brain injuries , disaster litigation ) ? ( b ) Will plaintiff personal injury work preclude defendant or insurance defence work ? |
| 6 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 7 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 9 | There was no suggestion that this order would be impossible for the husband to comply with or would cripple his business . |
| 10 | He either would n't give me a line or would say my line himself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing has changed or will change my plans , ’ he answered . |
| 12 | can do your work can do your work or can do your work , whatever , maybe that 'll maybe that 'll mix it up a bit |
| 13 | If you can afford them , or can make your own , rough-hewn granite water basins and lanterns are far preferable to mass-produced items of reconstituted stone , though even these will mellow with age . |
| 14 | To maintain good credibility with the client , you need to call him before he sees an article in a newspaper that may affect his company — after all you are supposed to be his key person with the best knowledge of the media . |
| 15 | Asking for further training if necessary , a change in job definition or conditions , and for information about any future changes that may affect your objectives . |
| 16 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 17 | The mild cleansing formula has a neutral pH and high rinsability , so it wo n't leave behind any surface residue that may irritate your skin . |
| 18 | Most simply the insurance protects the value of your home against any action by another flat dweller in the block that may devalue your property . |
| 19 | If you have burnt your mouth , suck ice in order to stop any swelling occurring that may constrict your airway . |
| 20 | The recent interest in the role of cytokines , such as interleukin-1 and interleukin-6 in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease has prompted a search for drugs that may inhibit their formation or , alternatively , block their receptors . |
| 21 | There is a section in Sue Sharpe 's Voices from Home ( Virago Upstarts , 1990 ) that may echo your own feelings , entitled ‘ Dieting to resist ’ . |
| 22 | Finally a metal detoxifier attacks heavy metals like copper that may find their way in through the tapwater . |
| 23 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 24 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 25 | Raising the standard of care should , therefore , have the effect of demanding that directors make an appropriately detailed investigation of the facts and engage in a suitably thorough decision-making process : directors who must comply with the standard of reasonable occupants of the relevant office , rather than that of ‘ ordinary prudent men ’ , need to have a more sophisticated grasp of the factors that should influence their decisions . |
| 26 | Is there something here in this passage that should influence your behaviour today ? |
| 27 | Diesel Cars : Engines that should watch their weight |
| 28 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 29 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 30 | The third week in May has been earmarked by Hewlett-Packard for the launch of a new addition to its top-end HP 9000 RISC server line that should boost its performance range up to the mainframe level . |