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 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An intention to displace the prima facie or primary meaning of the defined statutory term may appear in a number of ways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This in effect would result in a net 6 per cent increase . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ No boat can live in a sea like that ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Although the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in March 1946 seemed to regard the Far East as the most likely arena for a Soviet–American collision , they agreed that Soviet expansion from its borders westward or to the south could result in a conflict with Britain into which the United States might finally be drawn . |
| 27 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 28 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 29 | Séguin , whose eloquence throughout the campaign was widely reported , stressed his fear that Maastricht would result in a loss of French sovereignty , especially over monetary policy . |
| 30 | FRANK WARREN , who manages both Gary Stretch and Chris Pyatt , thinks it unlikely that the two light-middleweights will meet in a world title eliminator . |