Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 2 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 3 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 4 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 5 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 6 | This type of link may be characterized by the stretch of apolar residues in the N-terminal β- strand A and a hydrogen bond network in domain 2 mediated by Ser-X-Pro at the start of β- strand A combined with Asn 161 and Ser 164 at the end of β- strand F and start of G ( residues in red ) . |
| 7 | Acknowledging that more than one sort of link may be formed as a result of even simple conditioning procedures helps explain the way in which these effects show in behaviour . |
| 8 | Working within this Hegelian framework Oakeshott also suggests that experience may be viewed from limited standpoints or ‘ modes ’ . |
| 9 | While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures . |
| 10 | But such data gain significance only through serving a larger enquiry , for example into how children have a better understanding of a problem ( or person ) through role-play , or how a raw experience may be organised through a particular approach to writing . |
| 11 | If the words used are wide enough for the above purpose , the court must then consider whether " the head of damage may be based on some ground other than negligence " . |
| 12 | Slight damage may be treated by using staples to anchor pieces together , but if damage is widespread , replacement is the best bet |
| 13 | The police hope is that the IRA gang or individual responsible for this damage may be captured on film . |
| 14 | Though ruach may be found in man , it is always , so to speak , on loan , and not a possession ; a resident alien , not a native . |
| 15 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |
| 16 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 17 | Some conception of the resultant complexity may be gained from a survey of the freeholders of Bedfont , Middx. , in 1546 , which records a wealth of detail that was more often than not disregarded . |
| 18 | The former management of woodland has resulted in many complex patterns and administrative arrangements , and great complexity may be expected from the documentary and topographical records . |
| 19 | These working papers and the discussions to which they gave rise may be perceived as the semi-processed materials from which this report has been produced . |
| 20 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 21 | A further division may be made between whole numbers and decimal numbers . |
| 22 | It is open to public inspection ; as described above an official certificate may be obtained by application on Form 96 to confirm the land you are buying is not already registered ; and to confirm there 's no caution or priority notice against first registration registered against it . |
| 23 | In the first instance , the certificate may be limited to the taking of counsel 's opinion and another application may have to be made to the Area Director to amend the certificate for further action if counsel 's opinion appears to warrant it . |
| 24 | An existing certificate may be amended for this purpose . |
| 25 | ‘ Father , ’ he said meekly , ‘ I welcome whatever penance may be laid upon me . |
| 26 | Ortega 's office on Jan. 4 condemned the officers responsible and the provision of army weapons under any circumstances " to any guerrilla movement , regardless of how just its struggle may be considered to be " . |
| 27 | Concessions which judges make to workers at one moment in the class struggle may be removed at another . |
| 28 | In many cases such user may be found to be tax-free because the taxpayer who uses the premises has not received " income " for the purposes of Schedule D , Case I and Case II . |
| 29 | Equally , bargaining may be affected by internal political change . |
| 30 | Hazards were taken to be simple , which include a single damaging element such as wind , rain , floodwater or earth tremor ; compound , which involves several elements acting together above their respective damage thresholds such as the wind , hail and lightning of a severe storm ; and multiple , when elements of different kinds coincide accidentally or follow one another as a hurricane may be succeeded by landslides and floods . |