Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 11 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 12 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 13 | ‘ ( 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 . |
| 14 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 15 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Localities , locales and human interaction may help us to situate society and social change . |
| 18 | Technological change may mean it is inappropriate to use results for which the ‘ sell by ’ date has expired — that is , the reflating of older values may be inaccurate . |
| 19 | Thereafter , a physiological change may cause them to develop a preference for fresher water so they are lured up the rivers , just as spiny lobsters , at a particular time of the year , are drawn to lower temperatures . |
| 20 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 21 | Hence identification of antigenic determinants of IgA response may lead us towards antibody responses likely to be important in parasite clearance . |
| 22 | Some push their way in , some squeeze themselves out , some wait hoping that a tide may carry them through . |
| 23 | Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators . |
| 24 | A controversial decision may cost you votes , but a courageous decision will lose you the election . |
| 25 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 26 | Consider if faith in God and prayer may help you — and your teenagers . |
| 27 | Mm that 's a bit let's make it more awkward . |
| 28 | Sometimes women need to make an effort to stretch the circle wider , and a newcomer will have to enter it , knowing that she does not fit in easily , but that her presence may transform it . |
| 29 | 7.3.3 against damage or destruction by the Insured Risks to the extent that such insurance may ordinarily be arranged for properties such as the Centre with an insurer of repute and subject to such excesses exclusions or limitations as the insurer may require It may be advisable to provide that the insurer should have principal offices in the United Kingdom , but this is no guarantee that the insurer will not succumb to liquidation or contest claims , and one wonders whether this would find favour with our European partners . |
| 30 | Religious doctrine may describe these powers as the holy spirit descended into material form ; everyday terminology may call them the forces of Nature . |