Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adaptability of the enterprise may lie in providing appropriate outputs to match the changes of the market from relatively stable physical inputs or may lie in providing a fixed output with changing sources of inputs . |
| 2 | If you have any queries or would like to discuss this matter further please telephone me . |
| 3 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 4 | In contrast with One 0ver The Eight in which he constantly said his ‘ gloo — oo-oo-m ’ words or would take a word like ‘ now ’ and repeat it excessively , he behaved with total seriousness in this ; a different character entirely . |
| 5 | Therefore , the majority of those who are to be made redundant will either have their own homes or will buy them shortly after . |
| 6 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |
| 7 | However , the success of the Inuit is based far more on dressing , housing and feeding themselves as well as possible , and avoiding risks that would expose them unduly to cold . |
| 8 | He predicted that it would be those publishers who were prepared to embrace change and take risks that would gain a competitive edge and succeed in the tough marketplace of the '90s . |
| 9 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 10 | Yet there are strong financial and commercial arguments why , ignoring the hype , any management should take a cool , business-like approach to assessing and where possible minimising the risks that could damage their operations in terms of liability claims , disruption of output or direct financial loss . |
| 11 | These bursts of repetitive non-sequential pressure peaks did not show any characteristics that would suggest a common cavity phenomenon ; they were not preceded by a sudden small increase in base line oesophageal pressure occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus ; and the shape of the individual waves , although occurring simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus , was often different from one level to the other . |
| 12 | However , ‘ selective rationalization ’ was sufficiently widespread for Townsend and Peck ( 1985c ) and Watts and Stafford ( 1986 , 216 ) to draw up typologies of plants ' locational and other characteristics that might affect the probabilities of closure . |
| 13 | We do not distinguish experiences from non-experiences as we might distinguish oranges from apples , viz. by indicating certain characteristics that might enable anyone , including those who have never tasted either fruit , to tell one from the other . |
| 14 | Pearson uses the concept of uncertainty to offer a matrix which directs attention to characteristics that might reduce the risks of innovation . |
| 15 | Policies have characteristics that must affect the nature of the implementation process . |
| 16 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 17 | There will , of course , always be certain competencies or aptitudes that may need to be tested , e.g. colour blindness or spatial awareness . |
| 18 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 19 | A further difficulty concerns the sheer numbers of such spores that would need to be involved . |
| 20 | They had come quietly but Tom had ears that could hear a mouse moving underground , or a squirrel breathing in a tree . |
| 21 | They were the sort of ears that could keep plates spinning at the circus . |
| 22 | I hunt with a camera , to capture images of animals that may become extinct in Indochina if hunting is not either strictly controlled or stopped . |
| 23 | These are animals that would seem to have no chance of survival in the desert — they are toads . |
| 24 | There are a lot of animals that would like to dine off nome , Masklin had said . |
| 25 | There must be enough of the right food , the temperature and habitat must be right , there must not be too many other animals that would parasitize it , or kill it for food . |
| 26 | Dr Piperno studies phytoliths — small pieces of silica that plants lay down in their tissues to discourage animals that might want to eat them . |
| 27 | A short fence prevented the escape of animals that might attempt to swim the river . |
| 28 | A large and heterogeneous collection of organisms are grouped in the Protozoa , including all those animals that can lead an autonomous existence as a single cell . |
| 29 | As the number of people in Europe has increased , animals that could cohabit with humans thrive while others are marginalised . |
| 30 | The actual animals that have ever lived on Earth are a tiny subset of the theoretical animals that could exist . |