Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or let's forget the whole thing . ’ |
| 2 | As the Group is vertically integrated , finished goods held by one company may be sold outside the Group or may form the raw materials of other companies within the Group . |
| 3 | This argument overlooks a feature of addictive disease that is often overlooked by those who currently advocate substitution with medically prescribed drugs : the addict will commonly take the prescribed drug and an additional illegal drug or may sell the prescribed drug in order to obtain a preferred illegal drug . |
| 4 | How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects . |
| 5 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 6 | Problems that improve temporarily and then relapse again and the previously effective remedy no longer works ; a dose or two of Sulphur in this situation will often either clear up the problem or will allow the indicated remedy to work again . |
| 7 | Under the guarantee , McCaw will buy the remaining LIN shares in five years at an agreed private market price or will put the entire LIN company up for sale . |
| 8 | Officials never have or can have the full range of choices displayed before them . |
| 9 | The actual evaluation/consultation is a factor that may affect the existing situation . |
| 10 | In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it . |
| 11 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 12 | The likely route of feeder and supply mains ; taking into account ground conditions ; anticipating , searching for and dealing with any problems that may hamper the mainlaying work . |
| 13 | It is exercised in perception , and the recognition that there is more in what is seen than may meet the casual eye . |
| 14 | present in brief checklist form the protocols that should govern the different kinds of cross-border interaction ; and |
| 15 | It is the nature of the research problem that should dictate the appropriate research method ; sometimes quantification is required , sometimes not . |
| 16 | Choose plants that should reach the desired height without becoming bare or ragged at the base ( this can be a problem with berberis ) . |
| 17 | With words that should shame the Prime Minister , one man 's humiliation on facing the sack |
| 18 | They may be unable to make some of the viral proteins that should trigger the immune system into action , leading to a weakened immune response against the infection . |
| 19 | Retail outlets will view the products that they buy from manufacturers or wholesalers as items that should provide the maximum Contribution per unit of limiting factor , which is floor space . |
| 20 | The first , and urgent , question relates to the administrative and financial arrangements that should replace the present system under which four separate bodies produce the clean feed from the two Houses of Parliament ( HOCBUL and the Operator for the Commons Chamber , CCTV for Commons Committees and the BBC and ITN jointly for the Lord ) . |
| 21 | She hesitated , conscious that she was being required to take a decision that must change the whole course of her life . |
| 22 | But on the long , split bench of the chapel , the floppy red book of hymns in my hands , I used to imagine every possible circumstance that might deflect the loving attention of the angel . |
| 23 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 24 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 25 | There is evidence that Protestant millenarianism , enjoying a resurgence during the civil war period in England , could provide a framework within which Bacon 's program for the empirical sciences gained an extra impetus — despite the fact that Bacon himself had been hostile to any religious movement that might threaten the fragile monarchy to which he had constantly vowed allegiance . |
| 26 | Bearing these caveats in mind , however , we may speculate from the evidence of this study on the changes that might improve the glycaemic control in patients with diabetes . |
| 27 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 28 | His meaning was clear , and she knew the choice before her was a momentous one , one that might change the whole course of her life . |
| 29 | The ‘ balance of Nature ’ was a shifting affair at the mercy of geographical factors that might change the physical environment or allow the invasion of rival species . |
| 30 | Richard was the King 's brother ; according to Henry 's mood and caprice that might make the young man either indispensable or unthinkable , but even for de Burgh it made it difficult to disparage his stewardship openly . |