Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement .
2 The plans to deal with existing problems may range from straightforward co-ordination of arrangements for a person leaving hospital , to a much more complex plan with the social worker in the case manager/key worker role ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) , as will be described .
3 The purpose of an experiment in fluid mechanics may range from direct verification of a theory ( as in Figs. 11.2 , 15.12 and 17.19 ) to a general exploration of the phenomena that occur in a given situation .
4 Such arrangements may range from full partnership down to " strategic alliances " designed for pooling resources and sharing expenses and generally spreading the risk between the member firms .
5 Now let's eavesdrop on old Bill .
6 Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years .
7 They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend .
8 Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which …
9 The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears .
10 Outside is a lovely garden where you may eat in fine weather , and occasionally the hotel offers zither music during the evening .
11 After emigration , mononuclear phagocytes may remain as immobile tissue macrophages for several months until they are stimulated or activated .
12 Let's stay with high culture with Rolf Harris 's version of the seventies rock classic Stairway to Heaven .
13 and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive .
14 Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force .
15 Improved economic status now gives more elderly people the option of a fairly comfortable retirement which they may prefer to continued employment in unattractive work .
16 The university list is longer than the polytechnic/college one partly because of the greater range of degrees , and partly because of the greater number of more specialized degrees in the universities , although it should be remembered that specialized patterns of options may exist within broad degree programmes .
17 To say , as Mr Hibbert did , that statisticians can not publicly dispute any misleading use politicians may make of official information is a weaselly argument .
18 The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency .
19 Equally , one teacher may concentrate on independent pupil investigations while another believes in clear explanation of principles and examples followed by closely imitative exercises .
20 It may smack of undue determinism to suggest that only this system 's replacement will achieve anything and that its renovation will achieve nothing .
21 If a substantial loss has been suffered you may be able to sue the vendor , and if you lack financial resources you may qualify for legal aid .
22 As Shainess ( 1970 ) accepts , female psychologists may collude with male-oriented psychology against their own interests .
23 It is not yet known how the active components of ginseng , compounds called triterpenoidal saponins , achieve these effects , although by analogy with the related steroidal saponins , such as digitalis , they may act on specific cell membranes .
24 While accepting that officers must adapt to political reality — by , for example , being prepared when invited to attend party groups subject to certain safeguards — it rejected any move towards a ‘ spoils system ’ in local government , and recommended that principal officers should be prohibited from engaging in political activity , including standing for council office .
25 For Quine there are data and there is theory , and whatever desirable internal characteristics the theory may have , its justification is achieved , if at all , in the way our verificationalist semantics taught us that it should be ; that is , by appeal to the difference that the truth of the theory should make to possible experience and by direct ( strong ) verification of whether experience does in fact go the way the theory says it should .
26 It was with the aim of contributing to such an improvement , as the representative body of employers and business investors , that the 1988 Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Task Force on business and urban regeneration came to three conclusions : first ( in line with the Government 's own beliefs ) , that business must take the lead in reversing urban decline ; second , that charity — governmental or voluntary — can not in itself deal with problems , and any regeneration must spring from private investment , commercially motivated ; and third , that the potential exists for such investment , provided that early projects are seen to succeed ( CBI , 1988 ) .
27 Adequate demand must exist for external currency loans from corporations and governments .
28 The cartographic data must exist in digital format before they can be used within a GIS ; although the amount of digital map data is growing larger a considerable amount of manual digitizing is needed in practice to provide the database necessary for a successful GIS .
29 One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) .
30 A pending court case will determine whether ‘ financial responsibilities must remain of primary importance ’ as the Commissioners argue , or whether , as the Bishop of Oxford believes , assets should be invested in a way that more actively promotes Christian values .
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