Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To these users , a visit to the doctor may eventually mean a visit from the police .
2 The magisterial pronouncement of Sir George Macdonald on the Antonine Wall has now been overthrown by the brilliant study of the samian by Brian Hartley ( 1972 ) , and the work at Carpow and other Severan sites will help to stabilize the dating of the pottery of this period , so with more revisions and adjustments , we may eventually have a framework which will endure , but only possible since all the groundwork had been so carefully prepared .
3 It must involve some acts being done in State B , over which the law of that State may properly exercise a measure of control .
4 The sunk costs involved in building a strong market position may additionally become a barrier to entry , even if the intention was ‘ innocent ’ competition rather than a deliberate strategy to exclude potential competitors .
5 Oh my god , an Indian , oh let's all have a party Anyway alright gorgeous .
6 In some cases you may only choose a maximum of one unit of a specific type , for example you can only have one Mob of Big'uns .
7 In some cases you may only choose a maximum of one unit of a specific type , for example you can only have one regiment of Reiksguard Knights .
8 Also , some squares in the pattern may only match a square on the edge of the board .
9 This provides that a court may only make a care order if it is satisfied that the child concerned is suffering significant harm .
10 Distortion of doubly-degenerate states gives two maxima , but often these are not resolved , and we may only observe a broadening of the band .
11 As Donald Rees from the South West Water Authority told the Lords : ‘ It is all very well lining a sewer at half the price that it would cost to build a new one , but in fact it may only last a quarter of a normal funding life and may therefore be uneconomic . ’
12 One year A tenant may only serve a request for a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26 , if his tenancy was granted for a term of years certain exceeding one year or for a term of years certain and thereafter from year to year ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26(1) ) .
13 A man of 25 in that position may only get a multiplier of 13 or 14 .
14 Depending on the complexity of your operations this may only take a couple of man weeks and could be repeated at regular intervals to monitor progress .
15 If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) .
16 If you decide to stock the pond with fish , frogs may only become a nuisance in the spring , as unattached male frogs can cling onto the fish , causing them distress and have even been known to suffocate them by clamping onto their gills .
17 There is also a time bar : the Commissioners may only investigate a complaint if it is made within 12 months from the date the aggrieved person first had notice of the matter complained or , but a Commissioner has power to accept a complaint outside the time limit if he considers that there are special circumstances which make it proper to do so .
18 Harry may only have a walk-on part at Birdland , but he 's still the star of the show .
19 ‘ I often think how poor Mr. Green would have trembled for the issue , as the passing of this beautiful Property with many hands may exceedingly disfigure a neighbourhood , which he poor man often busied his hand in beautifying . ’
20 Increased frailty may suddenly make a house or flat , lived in for years , totally unsuitable — the garden is too big to manage , upstairs bedrooms become inaccessible , or getting to the shops and other local services presents difficulties .
21 Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque .
22 However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class .
23 In Williams ' chapter ( 3.1 ) , we may perhaps see a justification of equality of condition or outcome on the basis of equality of opportunity .
24 We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone .
25 Nowadays , of course , there is football , but unpopular town councillors ought perhaps to demand a reprint of this pamphlet and beware .
26 A hotel may apply for a full on-licence ; on the other hand small establishments may merely have a restaurant licence or a residential licence .
27 In 1965 I read about Penrose 's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity .
28 The finiteness of the simplex method , established in Chapter 3 , shows that in any sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals , we must eventually reach a tableau with for all critical columns j , and consequently , at the next iteration , a tableau optimal over a non-degenerate interval .
29 But the development of continuing education must eventually have a backwash effect on initial professional education at the undergraduate stage .
30 Though the term is commonly used as an umbrella to cover all types , we should properly attempt a distinction .
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