Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some employers may encourage you to start with fewer hours than you think you can manage , with the intention of adding to these as you gain more confidence . |
| 2 | The courts may recognize them , but the courts have no power to enforce them . |
| 3 | The courts may find it impossible to categorise every procedure it is asked to review as either a reference to an expert or an arbitrator . |
| 4 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 5 | After 12 years of negotiation the half mile footpath from Jepsons Gate to Alance Bridge , Anglezarke has been upgraded to bridleway status — this means that both cyclists and horse riders may use it . |
| 6 | Approaching from another angle , there is at least one answer which has the same claim to finality as ‘ I enjoy it ’ ( finality in the sense that no further reason may be demanded , although other reasons may outweigh it ) . |
| 7 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 8 | Teachers who enjoy their work , feel supported by colleagues and can speak frankly about their ideas and difficulties in the staffroom and in meetings may find it hard to believe ( unless they have recently worked in such a school themselves ) the stories that other teachers tell about suspicion , isolation and backbiting in the school down the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Those who engage in and encourage secret plans and conspiracies may think they are patriots , but they are the worst enemies of their country . ’ |
| 10 | In one form or another these different facets of the modern English concept of marriage reappear in most of the cross-cultural examples which I shall mention later though some of the particular forms may strike you as surprising . |
| 11 | Lack of takes may induce him to wander and do a complete tour of the lake whilst his rods are still ‘ fishing ’ . |
| 12 | It is n't easy to talk naturally to a piece of machinery and your performers may find it easier to talk to you rather than directly to the camera . |
| 13 | The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself . |
| 14 | The authorities may find it difficult to do this . |
| 15 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 16 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 17 | Just as the hunted may use disguises to escape from hunters , so the hunters may use them to lay an ambush . |
| 18 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 19 | The dedication contains the somewhat bitter generalization that ‘ the policie of times may hold it unfit to raise men humbled with adversities to titles of dearnesse ’ , which could apply to Cavendish 's own situation at the end of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 20 | Although geneticists may think it an odd idea , it is therefore sensible for us to speak of genes ‘ for ’ stone shape , stone size , stone hardness and so on . |
| 21 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 22 | Whoever wishes may follow me . |
| 23 | If Durie does not start in today 's home game with Premier League bottom club Nottingham Forest , Spurs may sell him . |
| 24 | He himself felt his lack of mathematics ; but in science it may be an advantage not to be too well-drilled — one who knows the rules may find it hard to go beyond them , and where great originality is needed the prizes sometimes go to outsiders . |
| 25 | professions or trades and political views should allow it to reflect the multicultural , economic and social needs of Britain in Europe . |
| 26 | Although much of the Netherlands is below sea-level , its existing flood defences should protect it . |
| 27 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 28 | But other ‘ universal things ’ , such as shape and extension , do have causes , and their definitions must express them . |
| 29 | The draftsman should , nevertheless , be aware of some of the practical problems that arise in connection with the choice of tenancy to be granted and in appropriate cases should draw them to the attention of his client . |
| 30 | The contrast between these two cases should warn us against generalising propositions which make either fluidity and mobility of the working class , or tradition and community within particular branches , into uniquely favourable conditions for socialist organisation ( the first is perhaps Bologna 's temptation ; the second appears to be the temptation of the work done under the auspices of the ‘ History Workshop ’ ) . |