Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also examines the influence of the SEM and related rules on the locational behaviour of large firms with respect to the LFRs in order to establish whether the nature and quality of investment in such regions may enhance regional development potential . |
| 2 | Like the secondary lesions they may mimic other skin conditions and can be found on the surface of the skin , or sometimes as lumps or nodules beneath it . |
| 3 | They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) . |
| 4 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 5 | The adjustment to the indicative price is an art in that the purchaser takes account of the cost saving benefits it can bring to the vendor 's business , potential profit increases arising from market synergies and identified liabilities which may affect future profitability . |
| 6 | And local factors which may affect future conversion rates . |
| 7 | These findings would suggest that an interplay of various intraluminal factors , including bile acids themselves , may affect colonic function . |
| 8 | It is postulated that cytokines may affect colonic inflammation , but it still remains unclear how they contribute to the exacerbation of the inflammation . |
| 9 | Moreover , it has been suggested on the basis of experiments carried out with children that the nature of a fixation stimulus may affect visual hemifield asymmetry by inducing a bias towards either verbal or non-verbal processing , depending on the nature of the stimulus ( Kershner , Thomae and Callaway , 1977 ; Carter and Kinsbourne , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 11 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 12 | The cellular density of the inflammatory infiltrate in the mucosa may affect phospholipid composition , as has been reported for colon mucosa . |
| 13 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 14 | Robinson Crusoe on a desert island may experience good luck or bad luck ; but he can have no rights . |
| 15 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 16 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 17 | Participants may experience considerable pain , grief , frustration and bitterness because adoption is a bereavement situation , involving loss of identity and knowledge of birth parents . |
| 18 | Fat lesbians and fat heterosexual women may experience fat oppression in different ways , but it is present for both . |
| 19 | Furthermore a strong case can be made for arguing that religious commitment is the only way to understand the depths of religion which from the outside may remain sheer enigma . |
| 20 | Cold predominates : the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30°C , and in Siberia an astonishing -50°C ; and in summer , the ground may remain frozen solid ( ‘ permafrost ’ ) except for the top metre or so . |
| 21 | Those looking for dwarves may sprinkle soft flour near a likely place at twilight , so as to study the footprints found there in the morning . |
| 22 | ‘ We ought to go straight back by the paths . |
| 23 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 24 | For some children , however , differences in food and chemical exposure between school and home may explain different behaviour patterns . |
| 25 | Low plasma octreotide concentration and increased fasting volume may explain improved gall bladder contraction . |
| 26 | The inflammatory cell infiltrate and its chemical products may influence intestinal permeability in various ways . |
| 27 | One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics . |
| 28 | An effect on the endogenous natriuretic hormone which may influence vascular tone via an effect on cellular ATPase , modifying the sodium content of vascular tissue , may be important ( De Wardner & MacGregor , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 30 | That is , a person may treat extra income differently from main unemployment ( and supplementary ) benefits and expected earnings perhaps due to uncertainty attached to the receipts of some benefits ( Jenkins and Miller , 1989 ) . |