Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These accounts may therefore imply that , as language strengthens its hold on consciousness and , through writing , on the explicit world of knowledge , objects may retain their place in the ordering of the unconscious world . |
| 2 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 3 | Production staff must be conscious that how they build products may affect its EMC performance ; service engineers , likewise , must be sure that they do not compromise EMC once products are in the field ; the purchasing department must be aware that EMC constraints placed on suppliers may make a component more expensive to buy , but will probably save money when the end product is tested as a whole ; and the marketing and sales department must plan to sell the advantage which EMC brings to a product . |
| 4 | LEFT Dogs of all different types and ages may find themselves abandoned , and in need of good homes . |
| 5 | Employers may employ their own valuers to determine house prices in different areas to assess payments under an excess mortgage allowance scheme . |
| 6 | Practice nurses working in GPs surgeries or working for small scale employers may find themselves subject to tougher negotiation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Coaches ought to know what the children should be practising . |
| 9 | The courts may recognize them , but the courts have no power to enforce them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most homeless persons and families have the common feature of poverty although a variety of personal and other reasons may underlie their homelessness . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Those who engage in and encourage secret plans and conspiracies may think they are patriots , but they are the worst enemies of their country . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |
| 20 | Lack of takes may induce him to wander and do a complete tour of the lake whilst his rods are still ‘ fishing ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself . |
| 23 | For instance , IVF pioneer Robert Edwards spoke to the Eugenics Society of London ( yes , they still exist ) in 1982 about how the new technologies may serve their social aims . |
| 24 | Activator and quencher ions may produce their effects at extremely low concentrations , below the detection limits of the electron microprobe . |
| 25 | Here there is usually a ramp or board up which cyclists may push their bicycle . |
| 26 | Here there is usually a ramp or board up which cyclists may push their bicycle . |
| 27 | Lord Taylor said : ‘ Under the new act prisoners may find themselves serving longer than under the old regime . |
| 28 | He also recognises that in a free society values may develop which are alien to its very existence . |
| 29 | The authorities may find it difficult to do this . |
| 30 | While , theoretically , local authorities may spend their own incomes in ways they themselves choose , the government , in calculating local government grants , increasingly indicates how it expects the authorities to allocate funds between priorities . |