Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the disruptive effects of damage may spread to other structures intimately linked to Broca 's area . |
| 3 | Any one instance may lie in several clusters . |
| 4 | A threat to break a contract may amount to such ‘ economic duress . ’ |
| 5 | From these answers we can see that a horse 's temperament may touch on all these statements , or their opposites , and that the horse 's temperament is demonstrated by its general or most consistent mood and natural disposition . |
| 6 | For example , long-standing marital disharmony may lie behind apparent rejection ; indeed , it may be that the disability of one partner provides the first and only reliable opportunity for old people to separate . |
| 7 | As to the extent of the structural alterations which the licensing board may order under this subsection. see Bushell v. Hammond [ 1904 ] 2 K.B . |
| 8 | Or the text may consist of connected prose passages , items of information about some aspect of British life , letters , newspaper articles and so on . |
| 9 | Affiliated organisations , Constituency Labour Parties and Commons Members of Parliament may nominate for each of the offices of leader and deputy leader , one Commons Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party attending conference ( unless excused attendance as provided in sub-section ( c ) below ) as a delegate or ex-officio delegate . |
| 10 | The cubitus ( Co ) divides into two main branches , the first cubitus ( Cu1 ) being convex and the second cubitus ( Cu2 ) concave ; the first cubitus may subdivide into anterior ( Cu1a ) and posterior(Cu1b) veins . |
| 11 | It seems that in addition to a large number of pernicious anaemia patients with stable nodular hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells , there are patients in whom the hyperplastic change may progress to carcinoid tumours and some in whom it regresses . |
| 12 | ( iv ) If workers in a particular industry become more polarized in their commitment to the labour movement , membership will fall unambiguously but the wage change may go in either direction . |
| 13 | Under no circumstances should frequent elevator movements be made with the object of maintaining a constant indicated airspeed , height or rate-of-climb , as this technique may lead to severe low frequency oscillation in pitch . |
| 14 | Expectations of parental roles and responsibility may differ from western views and the techniques that parents use may appear inappropriate for our cultural viewpoint . |
| 15 | Concordances produced by computer may differ from traditional hand-made concordances in several ways . |
| 16 | It is possible that this funding may cease after 1997 , but as Manchester Computing Centre has been designated a national datasets centre , the expertise to support the data should remain there . |
| 17 | Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover . |
| 18 | This primary ego-feeling of an all-embracing kind may persist in some people , alongside the narrower and more clearly demarcated ego-feeling of maturity . |
| 19 | In species that forage inshore , clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances . |
| 20 | However , the fact that the defence may resort to procedural tactics or that the weakness of some investigations may become apparent under re-investigation should not lead us to reject a formal mechanism of quality control . |
| 21 | The Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady , a level headed figure , warned that the imbroglio may lead to higher interest costs for the taxpayer . |
| 22 | Suddenly stopping the drug may result in acute " withdrawal " effects such as delirium tremens for alcohol or " cold turkey " ( which feels like a bad bout of influenza ) for heroin . |
| 23 | BASIC rate taxpayers who are considering investing in a Personal Equity Plan should carefully consider the implications that changes introduced in this week 's Budget may have on such an investment . |
| 24 | Abnormalities of gastrointestinal motility may occur in all forms of amyloidosis and intestinal pseudo-obstruction has been reported in secondary or primary amyloidosis , including amyloidosis associated with multiple myeloma . |
| 25 | Two distinct trends may be discerned , though the same writer may work in both conventions . |
| 26 | In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) . |
| 27 | Additional standards relating to disinfection may apply to high risk areas . |
| 28 | Responsibility for provision may change without corresponding changes in the source of finance . |
| 29 | The spectrum of conviction concerning God 's existence may run through several degrees of probability . |
| 30 | But in industrial goods markets the role of the buying function may vary from significant to relatively insignificant . |