Example sentences of "[num] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Robertson sent his signal from AFHQ [ KP 103 ] on the night of 14/15 May , the decision had been taken in principle that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviet forces . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , police insured with MMI may end up paying compensation for the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 3 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 4 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 5 | Wales ' two wins out of eight may be the relevant benchmark . |
| 6 | Moreover , comets may be less dense than the 1gcm -3 value chosen here ; values as low as m 0.3gcm -3 may be possible . |
| 7 | Therefore , our data support the notion that ET-1 may contribute to the functional and morphological abnormalities of pulmonary vasculature associated with CFA . |
| 8 | Which of the four common jobs in 1980 may almost have disappeared by 1990 or at least by the year 2000 ? |
| 9 | Brezhnev 's neutralisation scheme for the Gulf in 1980 may have had an additional , more specific objective . |
| 10 | Two-thirds may relapse within six months but there is still a good chance that the condition will clear up ultimately . |
| 11 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 12 | Today , for example , in Unilever , employees over the age of fifty may choose to work progressively less with the firm and more with the community until in their last year before retirement they work only one day a week with the firm . |
| 13 | Where any actual bodily harm is occasioned section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 may be appropriate ( see offence 6 ante ) . |
| 14 | The enlightened bureaucrats who were primarily responsible for drawing up the legislation of 1861 may not have achieved everything for which they were striving , but they were undoubtedly trying to achieve more than the modernization of the gentry 's sources of income or the revivification of the state machine . |
| 15 | While the highest quality solution of Figure 15.4 may be higher than the highest achievable in Figure 15.3 , the demands on ability in the presence of constraint to achieve a position on the narrow success surface and the risk of emergence of new constraints in later phases of the project , greatly increase the risk of failure . |
| 16 | Without it , any 100th-birthday binge in 1998 may not find New Yorkers in much of a party mood . |
| 17 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 18 | It is one of the tasks of the inquiry by the West Yorkshire Police , supervised by the authority , to discover how many of the 754 arrests by the squad since January 1986 may have resulted in convictions from fabricated confessions . |
| 19 | If there is any suggestion of misfeasance here concerned with the transfer of the assets of AB Ltd to XY Ltd , then s 212 of the Insolvency Act 1986 may apply . |
| 20 | The structure of the Act of 1986 may initially be thought to be one in which the categories of authorised person and exempted person are mutually exclusive categories . |
| 21 | 650–60 may have left Conall Crandomna , Domnall Brecc 's brother , joint king of Dál Riata , anxious to preserve good relations with Oswiu , who was , after all , his brother 's protégé . |
| 22 | The fact that the Rousset copyist must have had access to some manuscript source for Eckard now lost lends a certain credence to the hypothesis that the pieces on pp.go and 92 may be by him . |
| 23 | Dave 's verdict : if you 're looking for a reasonably priced bag for general camping the Kozi-tec 500 may be just what you 're looking for as it 's warm and comfortable with plenty of room to move inside . |
| 24 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |
| 25 | As a result of this and other lobbying , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 proclaimed that jury service would be extended to 70 , but as we suggested , those between 65 and 70 may decline , if they wish . |
| 26 | Moreover , there is such a difference between one man and another that the man of 70 may still be at a higher level than the man of 20 at his peak : although the latter , starting so to speak from a lower level , will normally reach the later age at a much lower point than the former . |
| 27 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 28 | What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger . |
| 29 | Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play . |
| 30 | A target of 128 should not have been beyond England , but four wickets went down for 15 and it was left to Gower and Botham to make a game of it . |