Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academic study of music may be a specialist field , but music , of every kind , is widely diffused and performed ; only a small percentage of those attending concerts or recitals will have taken degrees in music . |
| 2 | Your college or lecturers may have provided you with a selected list . |
| 3 | At major intersections , where cyclists may wish to turn left , added facilities can be provided in the form of ‘ positioning lanes ( Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 4 | Larger holes or splits may need reinforcing with glass fibre bandage . |
| 5 | Informal groups or cabals may develop to impose their will on an organisation or to pursue a course of action in opposition to official policy . |
| 6 | Everyone involved with the implementation of the community care legislation must acquire a working knowledge or clients will get mistaken or confused advice . |
| 7 | Provision of coloured hoops or trays may prompt sorting especially by colour . |
| 8 | So either investment will also fall or companies will have to raise lots of fresh cash . |
| 9 | Having identified the scope of the ‘ problem ’ the paper will cover the wider issues which all organisations or companies will need to face regarding the status and role of e-mail records . |
| 10 | Careful thought regarding suitable journals for advertisements , advertorials or articles may help to dissuade workers considering strike action , for example , while good on-going press relations can do much to fortify not only the publics image of a company but also reinforce the workers sense of pride in belonging to such an organisation . |
| 11 | If a fork results from repeats in the genome ( and is therefore likely to violate the neighbourhood rules given below ) , it is reasonable simply to make a break in the contig because it represents a limit of the experimental technique used and other approaches using longer probes or clones may help to close the gap . |
| 12 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 13 | Without the work at Peoria and in many American industrial laboratories , many more months or years would have passed before penicillin became readily available . |
| 14 | For instance , increased advertising and improved product availability through distributors or retailers may have led to an increase in the total potential market since the initial statistics were published . |
| 15 | His phone calls do not go unanswered , and because few councillors or officials will decline to speak to him he has a disproportionately influential voice on questions like the route of a planned by-pass . |
| 16 | In a world with saving and intergenerational transfers , marginalization in production need not be equated with marginalization in consumption , and any extension of savings or transfers must tend to lessen the importance of employment status in establishing overall economic status . |
| 17 | Certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got yesterday but not last night . |
| 18 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 19 | The true owner or owners would have to reveal themselves by going to court to have it removed . |
| 20 | Patients or relatives may attempt to manipulate the therapist into compromising on issues such as the amount of weight to be regained or the kinds of food to be eaten . |
| 21 | In the most severe cases these children are taken into care and professional care-givers or foster-parents will start to build up a relationship with the child . |
| 22 | Another characteristic of the inward investors that two authorities and ourselves have had experience of is that it 's likely that the user or users will want to have reasonably clean air , good water and the ability to work twenty four hours . |
| 23 | He may have had it planned as a mausoleum before his death or friends may have erected it to his memory . |
| 24 | In continental European countries , where lawyers can choose to become judges soon after qualifying , the judiciary looks very different to Britain , with , for example , near parity in numbers between men and women in countries like France and the Netherlands . |
| 25 | Mature students who lack the requisite O-levels or GCSEs can opt to sit an alternative entrance test , although there is some confusion over the purpose of such tests . |
| 26 | ‘ This is significant in an accounting environment , where professionals may want to exchange information with clients running a different system , ’ says Mr Ingram . |
| 27 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
| 28 | What , after all , could be wrong with providing at least some good schools in the inner cities , to which parents would be committed and where pupils would have to keep their heads down and work , on pain of being thrown out ? |
| 29 | In all groups , female wage rates were a fraction of the corresponding male rates — except in clerical work , where women could expect to receive less than half that of men . |
| 30 | Whilst we would like to reserve our position over any additional conditions that we or others may wish to propose in future , we support the County Council 's conditions , as drafted . |