Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Higher cuffs generally give more support in rough terrain , but the more experienced user may prefer the greater mobility offered by lower cuff designs . |
| 2 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
| 3 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 4 | Institutions may retain the same appearance while transforming their character — a truism pertinent to both monarchy and parliament . |
| 5 | Because of the similarity of wording between s.69 and s.5 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 , it would appear that the courts may hold the same view with regard to civil evidence . |
| 6 | Flat braid usually looks better if hand-sewn as lines of machine sewing may spoil the finished effect . |
| 7 | Aficionados may enjoy the vile sub-editing , in a masochistic way . |
| 8 | The presence of other ions may raise the resonant frequency by up to 50% . |
| 9 | On a subsequent night the luck may run the other way . |
| 10 | Parental responsibility , partnership , non-intervention , attention to the wishes of the child and the necessity for a full assessment may mitigate the perceived threat of children being separated from their families because of their lifestyle . |
| 11 | A divided assessment may have the added advantage of allowing the valuer to claim that certain areas have now become common to two occupations and should be omitted from the valuation . |
| 12 | The changes in cat-PLA2 and syn-PLA2 values may reflect the clinical state of the patients , because we found recently that the increases in the concentrations of cat-PLA2 and syn-PLA2 were associated with pulmonary and renal complications in acute pancreatitis ( Grönroos J M and Nevalainen T J. Unpublished data ) . |
| 13 | If the change causes a change in the pattern of borrowing and lending , the interconnected nature of financial flows may involve the monetary sector and then changes in the money supply will occur . |
| 14 | This condition is not sufficient to guarantee that the correct answer has been found because more than one hypothesis may span the entire utterance . |
| 15 | While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk , it also renders his portrait mundane . |
| 16 | Although it may seem that the establishment of a foreign subsidiary exposes a firm to many of the risks which licensing minimises , a venture of this kind may offer the greatest potential . |
| 17 | His present may trigger the inevitable family festive fall-out usually breaking out somewhere between the Queen 's speech at three and the Christmas cake at five . |
| 18 | A Thatcherite economist may despise the Keynesian clap-trap praised , indeed worshipped , by previous generations of lecturers , but if he strips the library of Keynesian texts his students will undoubtedly lose perspective . |
| 19 | These proposals may illustrate the independent interest of a regionally influential pro-Soviet Third World state in some forms of neutralisation . |
| 20 | A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy . |
| 21 | As external forms , however , objects may also be independent of the interpretation of any one particular group , and their consistency as a material presence may belie the actual variety of meanings they evoke . |
| 22 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 23 | Member states may allow the competent authority to provide for partial or complete exemption from the obligation to publish listing particulars in particular circumstances . |
| 24 | There are of course some deliberately emphasized exceptions : destitution , like that depicted in Alton Locke and Mary Barton , precludes decency ; moral turpitude may have the same effect , as in the case of Mrs Brown in Dombey and Son — ‘ In an ugly and dark room , an old woman , ugly and dark too ’ . |
| 25 | The authors suggest that extreme malnutrition may affect the immune system and make the disease more likely . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , an inacurrate plan that prevails over the verbal description may have the same effect as a verbal misdescription . |
| 27 | The route , via Donkey Lane , is lovely countryside and the experience should become the exact opposite of the stress and distress she obviously gets from driving . |
| 28 | The problem is that there is no stage in the model in Figure 16 where damage should cause the specific behaviour of identifying words by slow serial identification of their individual letters . |
| 29 | The user should take the appropriate action to enable the file to scan successfully . |
| 30 | ( Just how soon after writing a user should sees the recognised text is open to debate . |