Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other seasons the male may entirely lack sexually active female companions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Warmth from a bath or an electrically heated blanket may also help . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But the deal with Hewlett-Packard Co may well have far-reaching results . |
| 12 | But the deal with Hewlett-Packard Co may well have far-reaching results . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The apparent persistence of behavioural function after brain damage may equally reflect the insensitivity of our methods of assessing function . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To extend an analogy offered by Jenkins ( 1987 ) , the snapshot/'stills ' outside the cinema may not offer a very good guide to the nature of the whole movie . |
| 17 | The observed left field advantage may therefore reflect not a " linguistic " process but a process of matching based on purely visual features of the letters to be compared . |
| 18 | A half-point increase in West German interest rates is already more than discounted ; a one-point rise may still force a base rate increase on a reluctant Chancellor . |
| 19 | As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years . |
| 20 | Workers or management may control some aspect of operations , but the struggle may simply shift to another area . |
| 21 | The secretion of lubricating oily substances on the skin may also help the dolphin 's speed through the water . |
| 22 | NO ACCESS the current user may not access the package , as the package manager has not made the password known to the current user . |
| 23 | This second problem is more dangerous than the first because the user may not realize that information is missing . |
| 24 | The most common failings are to rely too much on words rather than extensively labelled diagrams , to use technical terms and concepts which the user may not understand , to focus on what it is at the expense of what it does and to fail to separate the needs of the operator from the details which are needed to set up the device , to locate faults , to provide remedies and to provide routine maintenance . |
| 25 | Hence in the 1990s the user may not gain freedom of interaction with spatial data but become a captive of a particular design and control purpose . |
| 26 | The user may not enter this module until the associated package is either approved or approval is denied ( which will return the DC state to ‘ active ’ ) . |
| 27 | The user may then request details of the tuple for employee whose employee number is 756 . |
| 28 | Though a LIFESPAN user may explicitly request whole packages of modules to be only retained in ‘ offline storage ’ until needed , there is little direct benefit to that user in offlining modules , unless the LIFESPAN file store occupancy is being charged via the VAX accounting system . |
| 29 | The set culminates in an outrageously zany harmonisation of the famous ‘ O du lieber Augustin ’ , whose adventurousness may well have made even a composer like Prokofiev blanch . |
| 30 | The other foot may well have crossed the threshold . |