Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 3 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 4 | Prior to running Directory Integrity Check , the user may wish to identify any files of a particular type in the directory/directory structure which are to be excluded from the comparison e.g. DIR , LOG etc . |
| 5 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 6 | ‘ Patrick may intend to deliver this house to English Edward , ’ she told them . |
| 7 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 8 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 9 | As an alternative to a good kicking , the gang may decide to have some fun once they have rushed you . |
| 10 | More exceptionally still , Parliament may endeavour to prevent judicial review and may wish the decisions of the tribunal to be final and beyond the supervisory jurisdiction of the ordinary courts . |
| 11 | Diaper may have taken another cure in Crick , Northamptonshire , and by March 1713–14 was serving in Dean , near Basingstoke . |
| 12 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 13 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 14 | Similarly , the experience of history , island isolation , and shared values may serve to explain differing levels of trust that Britons have in other people . |
| 15 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
| 16 | Local authorities may wish to use these powers to offer short periods of " respite care " to children in need whose families are otherwise able to accommodate them . |
| 17 | Moderators may request to see these Regulations and students work submitted for reassessment . |
| 18 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 19 | Two groups may act to stop such complacency . |
| 20 | Other groups may have bettered these results ; they are gleaned from Special Action Feedbacks which had been received by AIBS at the time we went to press . |
| 21 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 22 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 23 | More expensive garages may have tiled pitched roofs , with gables either at the front and back of the building or on the side walls , allowing you to match the roof style and the finish to that of your house if you wish . |
| 24 | Thus , the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon . |
| 25 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 26 | No one with cash and no part-exchange should consider buying used Sierras from franchised dealers , who invariably ask unrealistic prices . |
| 27 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | Now on form Swindon should have walked this game against Brighton and that 's just what they were doing … strolling when the seagulls went flying into the lead after just six minutes … good goal for Mark Gall he took the chance well . |
| 29 | Employers should avoid making snap decisions in cases of sickness absence . |
| 30 | This fact provides another good reason why courts should decline to entertain polycentric disputes . |