Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMERICA 'S recession may have a silver lining . |
| 2 | In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person . |
| 3 | The ecu link may provide a firmer anchor for inflationary expectations . |
| 4 | In fact , providing Work Experience may represent a cost to employers in terms of staff supervision time and loss of productivity . |
| 5 | Experience may offset a lack of access to sophisticated and costly specialist skills . |
| 6 | The National Curriculum may introduce a greater degree of consistency in respect of subject content , but quality in the way such content is treated will only be achieved if the anomalies at the various levels — LEA support , school curriculum management and development , classroom provision — are attended to . |
| 7 | People with very dry skin may need a little more . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps , but while getting soaked to the skin may put a kick into your day it does not appeal to me . ’ |
| 9 | For this purpose , a LIFESPAN user may grant a special access link between any other user and himself , which means that the specified user will have access to all the modules managed by the original user . |
| 10 | Any user may request a QAO listing at any time using the user image option 7.3.5 — Format QAO Log . |
| 11 | A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems , but knowing little about computers , has no idea how they should be tackled . |
| 12 | No other user may have an interest in the module ie. no other LIFESPAN user may have a package which references this module as this would involve more than module baselining . |
| 13 | The user may find a book on a subject but it may not be what he really requires or may only partially satisfy his needs . |
| 14 | Thus the thesaurus user may approach a term from ‘ either direction ’ . |
| 15 | A user may reject a document because it is in a language that he can not read or because it is dated . |
| 16 | Your GP may offer a programme for following the development of your young children ( under five years old ) . |
| 17 | It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student . |
| 18 | The same difficulty may discourage a teacher from permitting the children to ask too many questions themselves . |
| 19 | This moral variety may seem a high price to pay for the resolution of the problem of holism . |
| 20 | recognises that an original lessee may have a defence if the assignee not performing has in some way been absolved from performance . |
| 21 | Tasks at these levels often involve controlled processes , this appears to be clearly demonstrated by the common observation that a driver may cease a conversation before carrying out a complex manoeuvre . |
| 22 | The method of keeping little tins in the house marked ‘ rent ’ , ‘ rates ’ , ‘ telephone ’ , etc. , into which you put money may give a certain amount of satisfaction as a way of saving , but it will also give a burglar a certain amount of satisfaction to have everything so conveniently marked and to hand for him . |
| 23 | This kind of self-help may provoke an action from the other party to recover the payment that has been withheld : or , if the other party is a defendant in proceedings with the same plaintiff , withholding the payment may provoke a counterclaim . |
| 24 | For example , someone who has just completed a questionnaire ( at T 1 ) on nutrition may have a response to a film on food additives different from that which they would have had in the absence of the questionnaire . |
| 25 | The ‘ other ’ category may require a ‘ please specify ’ probe . |
| 26 | The basket of shares in the index is seldom identical to the market portfolio and so the basket of shares corresponding to the index may have a beta value ( with respect to the market portfolio ) that differs from unity . |
| 27 | The idea of combining two energy sources for cooking may take a bit of rethinking on the cook 's part initially . |
| 28 | For example , the representation of a temple on a coin may show a gap in the middle of the columns which is filled with an image of the relevant god ( fig. 12 ) . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The contract may impose a financial limit on liability ( " our liability for any breach of contract shall be limited to £100 " ) . |
| 30 | The contract may impose a time limit for notification of claims : The Buyer will inspect the goods as soon after delivery as is reasonably practicable and will notify the seller of any shortages , defects in the goods or any other complaint in respect of them within three days from delivery . |