Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed .
2 or let's say just erm odd tradesmen had a horse or a pony or whatever it was pulling a cart round the streets with vegetables or with , with er coal
3 Perishable food or sweets hidden away in drawers may attract mice or insects or may go off .
4 Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity .
5 There is no theoretical requirement for time symmetry in reversal : it may initiate preferentially in one hemisphere , for example , or may start slowly and finish quickly .
6 The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal .
7 The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal .
8 The English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute which has arisen or may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement , unless the Publisher voluntarily submits itself to the jurisdiction of some other tribunal .
9 Should proceedings be commenced by a person under disability without a " next friend " , the court may on application appoint the authorised person , or person who gives an undertaking ( N 235 ) as to costs , as next friend , or may strike out the proceedings ( Ord 10 , r 3 ) .
10 Elderly parents may begin to feel tense and unsure of their previous social skills and ability to sustain long conversations with visitors , or may tire very quickly , which may lead them to start placing obstacles of one kind and another to people coming to the house at all .
11 The projection may be linear or exponential , or may incorporate more complex calculations which make allowance for variation in the basic parameters assumed to remain constant in the simpler equations .
12 IBM 's Advanced Workstations & Systems president Bill Filip said last week that the company 's emergent RS/6000 business broke even or may have even done better than that in calendar 1992 though it was still ‘ overinvesting on development . ’
13 For instance , on a down-to-earth , but very real , level , one partner to a homosexual union may forsake his work to look after house and home , or may become financially dependent on the other .
14 the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age .
15 Removing stale , moist air from inside the house may be brought about deliberately — by opening a window or switching on an extractor fan — or may occur fortuitously — air passing up chimney flues , for example , or finding its own way out through one or two small gaps in the house structure .
16 Genetics may contribute to a specific vulnerability , or may operate indirectly by predisposing to obesity or personality traits that make restrictive dieting and anorexia nervosa more likely .
17 Parents , it is proposed , will determine whether a particular school should opt out of Local Authority control , or should stay in .
18 There is widespread ignorance about what does or should go on in schools or universities .
19 The intellectual , emotional and practical development that goes on — or should go on — is much wider than that .
20 Next comes the question whether the harmonizing measure should be confined to international transactions or should apply also to domestic transactions and , if the former , what tests of internationality should be applied .
21 It follows that , if a full course is to be mounted it must either attract support from all of the three faculties or must bring together an unusually diverse group of colleagues .
22 At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people .
23 In order to protect the interests of all people with care needs , of all people with dementia , who might end up in a private home , might end up in a voluntary home , might end up in Part 4 or might end up in a health service bed , it is necessary to look across that range of services at the general issues raised and see what can be done constructively in the interests of that total group of people with defined needs .
24 If there is no qualifying interest in possession s48(4) ( b ) states that if it can be shown that all known persons for whose benefit the settled property or income from it has been or might be applied or who are or might become beneficially entitled to an interest in possession are persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom the gilt relief will be applicable .
25 But the deleterious effect of the DD genotype might be restricted to certain vascular territories like the coronary circulation or might develop preferentially in atheromatous arteries .
26 There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him .
27 The damages will be based on the amount the employee would or could have otherwise earned and the benefits he would have otherwise received during the unexpired term of his contract if he had not been dismissed .
28 So A would be less than fully co-operative or rational if he did not think that B knew ( or could find out ) where he was .
29 Theirs was the charm of not being bourgeois , and the foreigners among them could be , or could come across as , princes , pretenders to a throne , descendants of a khan .
30 The method of ‘ verstehen ’ could be quite insufficiently explanatory , or could fall back for explanation on a ( theoretically circular ) ‘ informing spirit ’ .
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