Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material consents relate to those contracts , normally the vendor 's customer contracts , which the purchaser would like to receive formal consent for and if such contracts are not transferred failure to take over such contracts may materially reduce the value of the business acquired . |
| 2 | The apparent persistence of behavioural function after brain damage may equally reflect the insensitivity of our methods of assessing function . |
| 3 | The secretion of lubricating oily substances on the skin may also help the dolphin 's speed through the water . |
| 4 | NO ACCESS the current user may not access the package , as the package manager has not made the password known to the current user . |
| 5 | Similarly , as the gut requires luminal nutritional support to prevent mucosal atrophy and subsequent bacterial translocation the use of parenteral rather than enteral nutrition may also increase the likelihood of infection . |
| 6 | Protectiveness towards the grave may also induce the feeling that it is a place for only you to visit . |
| 7 | Employers may even run the risk of key employees leaving the company . |
| 8 | More covert reasons may also underlie the inability ( or reticence ) of government forest agencies in developing countries to enforce regulations . |
| 9 | Meetings may only exclude the public if exempt information is likely to be considered or if ‘ confidential information ’ would be disclosed . |
| 10 | The bulging of this mass may further reduce the space available for the spinal cord and cause neurological deficits in patients with only a moderate degree of atlantoaxial subluxation . |
| 11 | This increase in TDPI may simply reflect the fact that pensioners start from a very low base . |
| 12 | At present it appears that local authorities can draw up individual access arrangements with the new owners , but this is not a satisfactory solution , partly because some authorities may not have the motivation to do so , and partly because they are all very short of money and could not back up the agreements financially . |
| 13 | Such shifts may drastically worsen the profitability of the country suffering reduced competitiveness . |
| 14 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 15 | The presence of an unenforceable restriction on liability may unrealistically raise the client 's expectations . |
| 16 | Sufferers who turn to alcohol or smoking may actually increase the tinnitus as well as causing additional problems . |
| 17 | It makes it clear that solicitors may only breach the duty of confidentiality they owe to clients , whether adult or child , in exceptional circumstances . |
| 18 | An adult owl normally knows this and stays in shelter , but inexperienced hunters may not have the sense to come in out of the rain . |
| 19 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 20 | Instead , some individuals or groups in society will fail to forecast inflation correctly and so may , for example , seek money wage increases which are lower than necessary to maintain their real wages ; other individuals or groups may not have the power to gain full compensation for inflation even if they do predict it correctly . |
| 21 | In these circumstances those of us who have benefited from the excellence of Somerville and Oxford must surely do what we can to ensure that future generations may also have the opportunity to benefit from the privileged education that we enjoyed . |
| 22 | Evidence of your continuing enthusiasm may possibly tip the balance in your favour if the interviewer is having difficulty coming to a decision out of a large number of applicants . |
| 23 | Moreover , the presence of unco-operative minority shareholders may well affect the price a purchaser is prepared to offer . |
| 24 | Outside legal doctrine itself there has been a greater willingness to accept that in the large public company the shareholders may not perform the task of monitoring and controlling the management of the company , so that the managers are potentially left in a position of unchecked power . |
| 25 | In periods of rising profits a company which is geared at a low level may not have the growth potential to give ordinary shareholders the returns expected from a more highly-geared company . |
| 26 | But even the most comprehensive programmes may not bridge the gap between information and behaviour . |
| 27 | The lesser verdict may also assist the judge in sentencing , and help the public to understand the sentence imposed . |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the river was navigable ; the separation of Sussex from much else of mainstream English experience should not hide the richness of Saxon trade with other parts of Europe and even further afield . |
| 29 | The employees ' contracts should clearly state the length of the assignment for which they have been engaged together with details of procedures for termination of employment — both on behalf of the employer and the employee . |
| 30 | The amount at which materials are charged out to sites on stores issue notes must therefore reflect the whole of this on-cost if the stores are to be operated on a profitable basis . |