Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issues of equal opportunity may arise in a number of contexts ; for example , those of gender , race , disability and religion . |
| 2 | Members of a CU may participate in an exchange rate union such as the EMS , and therefore short-term exchange rate adjustment may not be available to them . |
| 3 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 4 | Since an average-sized woman would be eating 2,000–2,300 calories a day to maintain her normal weight , the reduction should result in a loss of about 2lb a week . |
| 5 | It should be emphasised at the outset that this is an assumption , not an empirically established or necessary truth : what theory dictates should happen in a state of perfect competition may not occur in real , imperfect markets . |
| 6 | He was appalled that such a story should appear in a newspaper , and the council , he said , would meet to determine what should be done about it . |
| 7 | For some events your clients may participate in a trade show or exhibition and simply ask that you take care of press relations during it and help look after important visitors . |
| 8 | An intention to displace the prima facie or primary meaning of the defined statutory term may appear in a number of ways . |
| 9 | It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 . |
| 10 | These statements suggested that schools and LEAs should engage in an analysis of the curriculum and they offered possible kinds of analyses , as well as prescriptions for the curriculum itself . |
| 11 | Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria . |
| 12 | Rangers ' meeting with Marseille on 7 April in France will go a long way to deciding whether or not the Ibrox club should pencil in a Spring trip to Bavaria . |
| 13 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 14 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 15 | His bubbling forwardness could collapse in an excess of emotionality . |
| 16 | Under the plan outlined in the Journal , Prime would refloat under the name ComputerVision Corp , which would include the PrimeService third party maintenance business , and the vanishing minicomputer side would go in a management buyout . |
| 17 | Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’ |
| 18 | Such a process of reasoning would result in an affirmation that the times of highest religious development were thus more ‘ civilized ’ than Eliot 's own . |
| 19 | The UN predicts that a reduction of 30 per cent in the commercial debts of the 15 most indebted developing nations would result in a 25-per-cent increase in their national incomes over the next five years . |
| 20 | This in effect would result in a net 6 per cent increase . |
| 21 | In the case of passenger transport undertakings such as railways and airlines which allow free travel to employees the test would provide mind-boggling difficulties of calculation and when the undertaking was running at a loss would result in a charge to tax that exceeded the fare charged to the general public ; this would also be the case where school fees were heavily subsidised by endowments . |
| 22 | One advantage of being at home is that you will be less likely to have a caesarian section , which is seen as a last resort while in hospitals around 12pc of all pregnancies will end in an operation . |
| 23 | ‘ No boat can live in a sea like that ! |
| 24 | The recommendation following upon an assessment might result in a child with a hearing disability being placed in a local primary school rather than in a special unit for children who are deaf or partially hearing . |
| 25 | Any Big Boss may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 26 | A Warlord may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 27 | There is ample room in that account of the situation for the further stipulation that the judge should decide in a way that engages his own political or moral convictions as little as possible and gives as much deference as possible to institutions conventionally authorized to make law . |
| 28 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 29 | But if RJB can start to make profits on these mines where British Coal could not , then this sceptical attitude could change in a trice . |
| 30 | Any further attempt to violate the principle of statehood by the new Northern-led leadership , it could be presumed , is unlikely to succeed — indeed , in certain circumstances could result in a reduction of support for their Northern campaigns . |