Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 2 | His experience may tell him that it may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the circumstances , but failure to take one may become visible to headquarters . |
| 3 | Indeed like having children , the experience may bring you eyeball to eyeball with some of the thoroughly unpleasant aspects of your own personality . |
| 4 | Certain forms of writing , such as academic articles , extend this even further and writers are required to develop skills in explicitness , and in being aware of hidden assumptions , so that readers who have not directly had the writer 's experience may understand it . |
| 5 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 6 | The rapid rise may suggest he is wedded to the bank . |
| 7 | As there were signs of some useful action by the Government on cold weather payments , I believe that the struggle may avail something , so it may be worth pursuing the point . |
| 8 | The ONTAP ERIC file includes a set of presearched questions of varying difficulty , so that the user may compare his/her results with those of an expert . |
| 9 | If , after filtering the clones , a probe having more than 2 ( N — 1 ) neighbours is found , it is reported as a ‘ suspect ’ one and the user may remove it from the analysis and repeat the procedure . |
| 10 | If writing on an electronic tablet , which combines the input and display devices , the user may find it disconcerting to see the handwriting changing under their pen . ) |
| 11 | Some of this money may find its way back to building societies , which can then lend it out again to other customers . |
| 12 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 13 | If you invest here , your money may lose its value , your products can not be reliably priced for trade across Europe ; you may face high transaction costs ; and you may not get the full benefits of a single market . ’ |
| 14 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 15 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 16 | Hardship and discontent may declare themselves there , in a victim 's revenge . |
| 17 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 18 | Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms . |
| 19 | The buyer may lose his right to reject by waiver of that right , section 11(2) . |
| 20 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 21 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 22 | The unthinking Christian may believe his faith as unthinkingly as the unthinking pagan . |
| 23 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 24 | This fixation may manifest itself in adulthood in one of two extremes ; either stinginess , orderliness , and excessive cleanliness or sloppiness , lack of organisation , and impulsiveness . |
| 25 | But it has also been apparent from the very beginning of the tale , where Wilekin " began to love a married woman " that " love " in this text may mean nothing more than carnal desire . |
| 26 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 27 | As a result , Parliament may insert what is known as an exclusion or privative clause to achieve this result . |
| 28 | There 's an article of the Constitution which lays down the fields with which Parliament may concern itself . |
| 29 | The Legal Aid Act 1974 provides that solicitor and counsel may receive their remuneration only from the fund . |
| 30 | One part of a sentence may indicate what the second part is likely to be . |