Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These views may well apply to the centre of the empire but require modification for the northwest provinces . |
| 2 | She considers whether it is true to claim that there is a sex-related divergence of views , and the possible reasons for any such divergence , and goes on to suggest that there are areas in which women 's views may typically differ from those of men . |
| 3 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 4 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 5 | The loss of key staff can be expensive in other ways too — their contracts may well provide for more costly redundancy provisions than for junior employees . |
| 6 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 7 | Workers or management may control some aspect of operations , but the struggle may simply shift to another area . |
| 8 | Does this mean that if there is clear evidence that the goods were stolen by P from X ( who has since disappeared ) P may nevertheless recover from D , who converted them ? |
| 9 | This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army . |
| 10 | Actions start in the High Court and cases may also go to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords . |
| 11 | There was no justification for the ban in the first place and is the Secretary of State not concerned that the International Labour Organisation has expressed much concern over the continuing ban and it may well be that in view of the fact that the government is not willing to compromise in any way the I L O may well decide to formally rebuke and reprimand the government . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 13 | When rates are discounted in this way by substantial amounts , bad feeling and discontent may well develop on the site . |
| 14 | Such an explanation of discontent may perhaps apply to educated middle-class housewives , but we find little evidence of status frustrations among working-class wives . |
| 15 | However , in some circumstances , such as the old unincorporated association , a contract may indeed exist between one member and another , as well as between the exchange and each member . |
| 16 | ( 6 ) A licensing board may only deal with any proceedings relating to matters mentioned in paragraphs ( a ) to ( i ) of subsection ( 2 above at a quarterly meeting of the board held by virtue of section 4.1 a of this Act . |
| 17 | Spiritual direction may well develop within a context of friendship . |
| 18 | Your retirement income may well depend on whether you start a new career . |
| 19 | In extreme cases its creditors may then petition for it to be put into liquidation , that is convert all its assets into cash , usually on the unfavourable terms of a forced sale , in order to recover the sums owed to them . |
| 20 | In extreme cases its creditors may then petition for it to be put into liquidation , that is convert all its assets into cash , usually on the unfavourable terms of a forced sale , in order to recover the sums owed to them . |
| 21 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 22 | If you are limited to a three-lamp set-up , your subjects have to remain within a fairly small area , otherwise the lighting becomes unbalanced and the performers may even stray into unlit areas . |
| 23 | The team at Osmania University investigated the possibility that fingertip and palmar patterns may somehow act as genetic markers of susceptibility to duodenal ulcers . |
| 24 | Mrs Radcliffe too shows more interest than Jane Austen in her peasants and their dwellings : mirth may co-exist with poverty and ignorance in hovels without chimneys or windows where men and beasts shelter together , while her more fortunate poor live in cottages so arcadian that her wandering gentlefolk may even stay in them overnight . |
| 25 | Improvements in the prosperity of the company that lead to higher dividends or rising share values may also result in increased wages and job security . |
| 26 | In addition to their other responsibilities local authorities may still continue to be direct care providers if they so wish . |
| 27 | Local authorities may sometimes need to be reminded of this . |
| 28 | Sudden changes in funding may also result in the withdrawal of systems , the sudden deletion of information by creation date alone to create space , or uncontrolled over-retention as the result of expenditure on new memory capacity . |
| 29 | But there is also evidence that the level of nuclear calcium increases dramatically following mitogenic stimulation , suggesting that calcium may also act within the nucleus . |
| 30 | That is , if it can overcome the notion of some Apaches , who reportedly think some provision ought still to remain for Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |