Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 2 | Variations in melt matrix or groundmass composition may evolve through selective mechanical disintegration of casts and non-modal partial melting of minerals to various degrees . |
| 3 | Thus , the marked increase in tumours of the cardia may relate to past smoking habits , and may represent a cohort phenomenon as smoking increased between 1915 and 1950 . |
| 4 | The abuse alleged may arise in many different forms . |
| 5 | How do they behave towards one another in the great diversity of situations which may arise within this patterned context ? |
| 6 | But even then they may think of some other way of avoiding public sale ( vouchers and member-clutchers probably ) . |
| 7 | May hybridise with both Black Grouse and Pheasant ( p. 107 ) . |
| 8 | An elected body may spring from long democratic tradition or little , from a multicultural society or a homogeneous one . |
| 9 | Thiemens told a January meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston that similar isotope effects may exist for other diatomic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen which , like oxygen , have one isotope much more abundant than others . |
| 10 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 11 | Relevant proceedings as defined by s93(3) means any application made or proceedings brought under the Children Act , any statutory instrument made under the Act or any amendment which the Act may make to any other statute . |
| 12 | Glendinning 's ( 1992a ) study indicated that these may fall into four main groups . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid I may fall into some wicked trap . |
| 14 | Davis further suggests that these different levels of management may concentrate on different budgetary functions as represented in the matrix in figure 4.4 . |
| 15 | Although such an approach may appeal to those interested in the operation of machines as historical artifacts and in some cases is vital to ability to ‘ read ’ those files which technology has already passed-by ( a classic example being the maintenance of punch card readers to process the already long-forgotten decks of eighty-column cards currently being rediscovered in the corners of filing cabinets , broom cupboards and the like ) , a more efficient strategy is to be found in the transfer of machine-readable files to a hardware and software independent format . |
| 16 | The infections acquired by these result in further contamination of pasture with eggs which may survive during several subsequent grazing seasons . |
| 17 | The unusual , for example , products which are unavailable from stock , may also be reported on , so that managers may act on these exceptional conditions . |
| 18 | They may act as legitimate grammatical subjects , but they are not necessarily also the " logical " subjects of the propositions concerned , in the sense of representing the genuine basis of predication in the given instance . |
| 19 | Grazing by molluscs figured so strongly among the hazards to a clover leaf that it seems reasonable to expect that , in those years when slugs or snails were abundant , they may act as important selective forces within clover populations . |
| 20 | Some day we will be married ; I am certain of it , but it is a long time to wait till I am of age and we must think of some other way before then . |
| 21 | They must adapt to various nutritional conditions , particularly to the value , nature , and molecular form of the nitrogen in the diet to survive . |
| 22 | Comrade chair , comrade secretary general of the conference and the G M B and if I my say so , comrade delegates , and I should explain in these changing times the use of the word comrade . |
| 23 | CCW must build on this positive achievement . |
| 24 | Stirling naturally stressed , as he had all along , that the SAS must remain outside any airborne brigade , otherwise they ran the risk of falling into the operational vacuum which lay between the small specialist raid and the larger tactical operation . |
| 25 | Two years previously he had wanted to hit back at fate for the death of his three cousins ; now he was so joyful that he felt he must compensate in this sacrificial way . |
| 26 | We have said that nationalized industries should price at social marginal cost , but should this be short-run marginal cost ( SMC ) or long-run marginal cost ( LMC ) ? |
| 27 | The first commandment is ‘ Thou shalt remember that the Essence and We are One and should strive towards that proper integration . ’ |
| 28 | We must therefore look for some accommodation between states , and this in two important respects : we must seek to further binding agreements between states which limit and reduce the possession as well as the use of nuclear weapons and we must work to control the lesser hostilities whose escalation will always be one of the chief threats of total destruction . |
| 29 | I would say with you to the good Lord ‘ spare me from Mr Kinnock 's gaze , hold on tight to the tablets of stone lest they should fall on this hapless servant 's head , may there be no rock so small that I can not shelter behind it out of Mr Kinnock 's sight , keep the rod and staff of Socialism firmly in your hands lest it be upon my back that it should be broken . |
| 30 | I would say with you to the good Lord ‘ spare me from Mr Kinnock 's gaze , hold on tight to the tablets of stone less they should fall upon this hapless servant 's head , may there be no rock so small that I can not shelter behind it out of Mr Kinnock 's sight ’ . |