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

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1 Record insertion , deletion and update may involve high costs .
2 A mild recession may cause far more economic damage than a one-day stockmarket fall of , say , 25% , but it is much less unsettling .
3 AMERICA 'S recession may have a silver lining .
4 If the advice is not heeded , he warns , the current recession may spread and deepen .
5 Recession may have arrived late north of the border but economic slowdown and the election has pushed devolution or independence to the top of the business agenda and produced an anguished reaction .
6 THE SMALLEST monthly rise for almost two years in the number of people out of work , and the first clear signs that the two-year decline in car sales may be ending , prompted cautious optimism yesterday that the worst of the recession may be over .
7 The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out .
8 More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months .
9 ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford .
10 The recession may be biting in our own larders .
11 Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports .
12 Sale of Braque ‘ Atelier VIII ’ for $7 million ( £3.9 million ) has boosted hopes that the art market recession may be over
13 The data from the recession may not be useful in managing in normal times but on the other hand may help in managing the next recession .
14 In Fig. 1 , for example , it will be seen that if the front of the vault is not correctly placed , the size of the brow ridges and degree of frontal recession may be unduly accentuated .
15 But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market .
16 Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications .
17 In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative .
18 There 's been a sharp decline in Britain 's industrial and manufacturing output raising fears among economists that the recession may be deepening .
19 Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money .
20 The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand .
21 The centre says the recession may be forcing more people to abandon their pets .
22 ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis .
23 The recession may not yet be over but , with repossessions stable , house sales may take off again .
24 The survey results , which are closely watched by Government and in the City , will raise hopes that the end of the recession may be in sight .
25 THE recession may still be biting , but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend .
26 On the disappearance of the archedictyon , or of an individual vein , the macrotrichia may persist on the wing-membrane in their original positions ; their presence there is regarded by Tillyard as evidence of descent from more densely veined ancestors .
27 The ban may , however , give Mrs Marcos the perfect opportunity to shed a few tears in front of the television cameras .
28 The implication for arts organisations of a ban may be similarly grim .
29 Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 .
30 I worked out , later , that a ceptor from orbit may have been how my enemy had found the opening in the first place .
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