Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and above setting a brief for the risk management team to identify , analyse and evaluate all risks that could impact on the balance sheet to a greater extent than , say , five per cent of gross profit , Ure recommends it could also be given the task of tackling risk areas where the organisation suffers continual losses . |
| 2 | Political parties can no more escape from their pasts than can individuals . |
| 3 | Wives coping in these conditions were more likely to patronise fried fish and ready-cooked meat shops than would housewives with ranges or gas stoves . |
| 4 | He is sure to take some beating with more enterprising tactics and can hand out a lesson in the New University Maiden . |
| 5 | Profitability and exposure analysis reports can be produced for groups of related clients as can analysis of time spent on non-client work . |
| 6 | Overall , the university system is projected to grow , and those institutions that can delivery the largest number of ‘ fees-only ’ students ( ie those whose numbers are not linked to infrastructure or staffing ratios ) are getting the biggest increases in teaching funds . |
| 7 | On continental Antarctica two species of penguins , emperors Aptenodytes forsteri and Adelies Pygoscelis adeliae , are the most prominent breeding birds ; both breed colonially in groups that may number tens or hundreds of thousands . |
| 8 | On 2,185 kilometres of beach — about 15 per cent of the British coast — 170,000 individual pieces of litter were collected , more than 23,000 sanitary products , 38,000 cans and 57,000 plastic bottles and can carriers . |
| 9 | Where cast-iron columns support timber beams , the exposed surfaces of the beams may char , but they do not expand and generate lateral movements on columns as might steel beams or iron beams . |
| 10 | but you know that er our Susan wanted to go down to erm , get her hair done this morning so erm I says to her come up here , we 'll get a taxi from here we 'll go down the hairdressers and shall permission to collect our money , so we got a taxi from here down to erm what they call that street where er that erm oh dear me Street |
| 11 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 12 | Is this sufficient for inverts and would reflectors make any improvement ? |
| 13 | The concluding words of section 18(1) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 provide for the consequence of an adjudication in these terms : ‘ and thereupon the property of the bankrupt shall become divisible among his creditors and shall vest in a trustee . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There are other places that can stage fringe drama but we really are ideal for small-scale dance , ’ Layhe says . |
| 15 | Japan 's ruling Liberal Democrats would no more dare sanction an open-door policy for Asia 's migrant workers than would Britain 's Conservatives risk letting in thousands more from Jamaica or Pakistan . |
| 16 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |
| 17 | But despite Rumens 's wit and some good supporting acting , this gets to be little more than one of those stories that might grace Woman Now 's problems page . |
| 18 | Of these , in West Malaysia , two species roost singly in trees and ny short distances to feed upon trees which produce a few flowers all year round , and the third , Eonycteris spelaea , roosts , in large colonies in caves and can ny up to at least 35km from them to feed and take food from a wide range of flowers scattered in space and time . |
| 19 | High-speed centrifuges generate large inertial forces which are used to separate materials from liquid suspensions that would sediment only slowly , if at all , under gravity . |
| 20 | For example , though the population of asteroids that can crater Mars today shares some members with the population that can crater the Earth and the Moon , the populations have their own distinct members as well . |
| 21 | In addition , other road users may benefit from the measures as may children on ‘ non-school ’ days . |
| 22 | That is no small achievement considering that the Israeli flag carrier faces obstacles that would ground most airlines . |
| 23 | First there was the trend to focus upon extreme events because these are the ones that may occasion damage and costs , they are the ones for which landscape management strategies may be designed , and this was a departure from the earlier emphasis upon the average experience . |
| 24 | Tatung figures they complement its Sparc boxes and can piggyback certain markets . |
| 25 | Cllr Eileen Devaney , chairman of the Consumer Protection Sub-Committee , said government statistics underplay the true level of injuries and could lull parents into a false sense of security . |
| 26 | It was clear that Jones could do much more detailed neutron measurements than could Fleischmann and Pons , but his data were n't particularly impressive . |
| 27 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |