Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , in some cases it can be fatal , or may lead to permanent handicap such as deafness or brain damage .
2 Some patients may not have friends or relatives able to give them support at home , or may live in unsuitable accommodation .
3 FENDER Stratocaster , 1969 , refinished red , rosewood neck , no trem , £550 or may swap for good acoustic .
4 Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) .
5 The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications .
6 A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount .
7 Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force .
8 Non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) are associated with gastric mucosal injury that may result in peptic ulceration , upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage , and perforation .
9 One of the main aims of our experiments was to try and detect candidate repressor proteins that might function through direct interaction with CREB .
10 Talk was of a minor disciplinary measure by management that might lead to industrial action .
11 Any organisms that might lead to increased release of carbon dioxide , or methane , are clearly not to be welcomed in a world that is currently experiencing warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect .
12 In the aftermath of the Police Strike , senior officers were doubly concerned to prevent the kind of rank-and-file interaction that might lead to common cause against their superiors .
13 Investigations should therefore aim at identifying patients with tumours that might respond to systemic treatment ( either chemotherapy or some form of endocrine manipulation ) .
14 It has been proposed that UF9 cells contain a negative regulator(s) of the cAMP-response that might act through direct interaction with CREB .
15 As he knows , we would be prepared to consider arranging for a scientific evaluation of any equipment that might assist in public order control if the chief officers request it .
16 to carry out a double-blind trial that could lead to clinical use of the product .
17 Since the carriers risked their ships , it was assumed that they would select and supervise their crews with enough care to prevent the damages that could result from improper management and navigation of the ship .
18 In 1977 , though , Lord Justice Lawton included in a list of examples of conduct that could amount to constructive dismissal ‘ persistent and unwanted amorous advances by an employer to a female employee ’ .
19 There , representatives of British manufacturers will try to overturn the government 's commitment , made only last month , to put the onus on the car firms to produce vehicles that could run on low octane petrol by 1990 at the latest .
20 For 24 hours all abstained from drugs that could interfere with oesophagogastric function .
21 Often written off as all hippy-dippy and girlie flower stuff , she was in fact , a woman with balls and had a voice which , although could lean towards finger-in-the-ear folkiness , had charisma and power .
22 See when I see that used to come round Sandy Row , he was the and he used to sit and the way he used to talk .
23 In a subsequent discussion on 23 March , MacArthur advocated an early peace conference despite the problems that would arise from Soviet obstruction .
24 State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization .
25 As the House knows , Labour has no difficulty making pledges that would result in untold expenditure .
26 Governments would have to submit to the council of finance ministers rules or guidelines on budgetary policy that would go into national law .
27 Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy .
28 Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . "
29 The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 .
30 The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it .
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