Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPTIONS : The Sword Masters of Hoeth may carry a magic standard . |
| 2 | The ecu link may provide a firmer anchor for inflationary expectations . |
| 3 | The National Curriculum may introduce a greater degree of consistency in respect of subject content , but quality in the way such content is treated will only be achieved if the anomalies at the various levels — LEA support , school curriculum management and development , classroom provision — are attended to . |
| 4 | For this purpose , a LIFESPAN user may grant a special access link between any other user and himself , which means that the specified user will have access to all the modules managed by the original user . |
| 5 | A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems , but knowing little about computers , has no idea how they should be tackled . |
| 6 | It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student . |
| 7 | This moral variety may seem a high price to pay for the resolution of the problem of holism . |
| 8 | Eating a lot of meat , butter and dairy products may give a higher risk of breast and bowel cancer as well as other problems such as coronary heart disease . |
| 9 | The method of keeping little tins in the house marked ‘ rent ’ , ‘ rates ’ , ‘ telephone ’ , etc. , into which you put money may give a certain amount of satisfaction as a way of saving , but it will also give a burglar a certain amount of satisfaction to have everything so conveniently marked and to hand for him . |
| 10 | OPTIONS : The White Lions may carry a magic standard . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) The contract may impose a financial limit on liability ( " our liability for any breach of contract shall be limited to £100 " ) . |
| 12 | One further point to note is that the Legal Aid Board may exercise a statutory charge on any money or property recovered or preserved by the client in respect of unpaid fees . |
| 13 | A licensing board may grant a provisional licence to the holder of any licence to enable him to carry on business in temporary premises during the reconstruction of his premises . |
| 14 | The programmer may choose a long-distance view of the whole execution space of a program , a reduced view as an AND/OR tree , or zoom in to see the details of a single call . |
| 15 | And if they do discern , why , Grimm will only grunt , ‘ Huh ’ while Vitali may compose a forlorn ode . |
| 16 | The objection may be signed by an agent , who , for his own protection ought to obtain a written mandate from those whom he represents : see subs . |
| 17 | Decisions taken by other disciplines may have a costly impact over which the nurse manager is powerless to intervene ; the general manager 's control of ward clerks , the contents of contracts agreed before privatisation or the consultant surgeon 's annual leave arrangements are examples . |
| 18 | As they point out , child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria . |
| 19 | Reluctantly , I think Chelsea may have a better season . |
| 20 | Each sentence may form a mini decision tree and these will be joined together to form the version which will be verified by the users . |
| 21 | This new technique may become a useful tool in new applications in chemisorption and catalysis . |
| 22 | Similarly , for political parties ideology may play a significant role ( it is also a means of reducing information costs , allowing voters to predict party response ) . |
| 23 | Use of such a set of unnormalized operations may give a better indication of the accuracy of an arithmetic calculation . |
| 24 | But they can just look through so they can say I ca n't think of an accent let's have a quick look through this list . |
| 25 | Here the amount of uplift computed from the reflectance values may include a considerable fraction which can be attributed to removal of Carboniferous overburden in Hercynian times . |
| 26 | One Orc boar chariot may carry a Magic Standard . |
| 27 | One Goblin wolf chariot may carry a Magic Standard . |
| 28 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 29 | Of course , high energy stimulation even of the wrong kind may stimulate a sensory ending ; for example , excessive pressure on the eyeball will produce a sensation of light . |
| 30 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |