Example sentences of "[num] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , police insured with MMI may end up paying compensation for the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Therefore , our data support the notion that ET-1 may contribute to the functional and morphological abnormalities of pulmonary vasculature associated with CFA . |
| 5 | Brezhnev 's neutralisation scheme for the Gulf in 1980 may have had an additional , more specific objective . |
| 6 | Two-thirds may relapse within six months but there is still a good chance that the condition will clear up ultimately . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether or not the Drop Nineteens should wake up and smell the coffee , the dogshit in the streets and the rest of the real world , is hard to say . |
| 15 | I believe eleven should clarify that in view of the regional planning guidance , in view of the comments made by Leeds , er that it should one should state under this criteria that the new settlement should not be located on the south west side of York . |
| 16 | Lot seventy does not have a horn with it but Lot ninety two , the good news is it does have a reproducer er Lot one hundred and eleven should have a black dot against it to indicate that it will be removed from the premises if not cleared within the stated time Lot one seven four is withdrawn one nine one the estimate should read eight to twelve hundred and finally Lot one nine eight is withdrawn . |
| 17 | The group is hoping that 1993/94 should see some increase in advertising revenue . |
| 18 | In the overview of the provisions of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which appeared in ACCOUNTANCY 's December 1992 issue ( see p 128 ) , the reference under Wages Councils to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1980 should have referred to the repeal of Part II of the Wages Act 1986 . |
| 19 | The final paragraph of the article on p. 38898 should have read : " Delegates made a significant change to the party structure , voting to increase the membership of the central committee from 180 to 193 members . |
| 20 | ‘ Luther will want cash and fifty should do it . ’ |
| 21 | The ‘ he ’ born in 1850 must have been Herbert 's Pa , not Grandpa . |
| 22 | Any man who has taken his brothers to court three times since 1980 must have a cutting edge to his personality . |
| 23 | The years immediately following 725/6 must have been a crucial period in the establishment of Aethelbald of Mercia 's domination of southern England . |
| 24 | Anyone interested in all occurrences of turtles off South-west England since 1756 should consult Roger Penhallurick 's marvellously readable book Turtles off Cornwall , the Isles of Scilly and Devonshire ( Dyllansow Pengwalla , 1990 ) . |
| 25 | It seems extraordinary to today 's parents in England and the United States that women of the twenties and thirties should have been prepared to accept either the content of these pronouncements or the authoritarian tone in which they were made ; yet accepted they were , in that innumerable women made valiant efforts to stifle their natural desire to cuddle their babies and to feed them when they were hungry , or were wracked with guilt and shame when they ‘ mawkishly ’ rocked the child or sentimentally eased his stomach pangs in the small hours with a contraband couple of ounces . |
| 26 | In other words Psalm 104:30 may speak of the energising rather than the creative work of the Spirit , and thus fall into line with the rest of the Old Testament teaching on ruach as ‘ breath ’ . |
| 27 | Heterozygosity at codon 129 may lead to reduced penetrance of the mutation . |
| 28 | Receptors for 5HT 2 may alter pyloric and cecal function . |
| 29 | Is the Home Secretary aware that his decision of 2 May put that Zairean teacher in an extremely dangerous and vulnerable position , and that it is not the first time that his Department has deported people in the face of a court decision that they should remain in this country ? |
| 30 | Part 2 may have been concerned with the kinetics of the reactions between hydrogen isotopes under the conditions attainable . |