Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been a sharp decline in Britain 's industrial and manufacturing output raising fears among economists that the recession may be deepening . |
| 2 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 3 | The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand . |
| 4 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 5 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 6 | The centre says the recession may be forcing more people to abandon their pets . |
| 7 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
| 8 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 9 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 10 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 11 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 12 | The huge majority of humanity are earthy clods for whom no hope may be entertained . |
| 13 | This type of link may be characterized by the stretch of apolar residues in the N-terminal β- strand A and a hydrogen bond network in domain 2 mediated by Ser-X-Pro at the start of β- strand A combined with Asn 161 and Ser 164 at the end of β- strand F and start of G ( residues in red ) . |
| 14 | Acknowledging that more than one sort of link may be formed as a result of even simple conditioning procedures helps explain the way in which these effects show in behaviour . |
| 15 | Detectives say they 've no proof that a serial killer is responsible for the four women 's deaths , but they are pooling all information in the hope that a common link may be found |
| 16 | The whole of the top of the ramus may be broken ( Fig. 3.14 E ) or completely missing ( Fig. 3.14 G-H ) . |
| 17 | In terms of developments in curricula and pedagogy , a number of trends with which the project is in sympathy may be identified . |
| 18 | Such an experience may be demoralising if you 're unlucky to get caught up in the tangle . |
| 19 | Mathematical experience may be involved incidentally in many of these activities , but the teacher must decide when it is appropriate to bring it to the surface . |
| 20 | Working within this Hegelian framework Oakeshott also suggests that experience may be viewed from limited standpoints or ‘ modes ’ . |
| 21 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 22 | Exceptionally , applicants who already have appropriate research experience may be admitted directly as candidates for the degree of DPhil . |
| 23 | But such data gain significance only through serving a larger enquiry , for example into how children have a better understanding of a problem ( or person ) through role-play , or how a raw experience may be organised through a particular approach to writing . |
| 24 | When arguing against radicalism , the rhetoric of conservatism may be employed . |
| 25 | If the words used are wide enough for the above purpose , the court must then consider whether " the head of damage may be based on some ground other than negligence " . |
| 26 | If the firearm is discharged and property is damaged , then an offence of criminal damage may be charged . |
| 27 | Slight damage may be treated by using staples to anchor pieces together , but if damage is widespread , replacement is the best bet |
| 28 | The police hope is that the IRA gang or individual responsible for this damage may be captured on film . |
| 29 | Though ruach may be found in man , it is always , so to speak , on loan , and not a possession ; a resident alien , not a native . |
| 30 | Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners . |