Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 2 | The book briefly describes the regulations relevant to setting up and running care homes ; looks at general issues to do with medical care in homes — such as relationships with general practitioners , prescribing and use of drugs , and admission to hospital ; and then summarises the implications of a range of clinical conditions which may affect older people in care homes . |
| 3 | The picture is complicated by the fact that national authorities may regard some discrimination between nationals and non-nationals as being necessary in order to ensure the protection of national interests such as the collection of taxes . |
| 4 | Unconsciously , they may regard those sort of questions as intrusive or threatening , in that the other person may not say what they wish to hear . |
| 5 | Luxury hotels may only allocate twenty per cent of their accommodation , whereas other hotels may regard this type of business as their main source of income and allocate eighty per cent or more of their accommodation and plan their services around this kind of market . |
| 6 | Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section . |
| 7 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 8 | PERHAPS the Independent Traveller ought to carry some sort of warning : ‘ Reading this section can change your life . ’ |
| 9 | Therefore , youngsters may swallow appreciable amounts of toothpaste . |
| 10 | Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed . |
| 11 | Those given in the section ‘ Suggestion for further reading ’ should be enough for most readers ; the same is true for sociolinguistics , but I feel that any reading beyond basic introductory material ought to include some work by Labov , whose influence on the subject has been profound . |
| 12 | The developments described in this section will continue to have a cumulative impact , and , as differences in income , wealth and welfare are widened still further , Britain 's underclass will become even more vulnerable , particularly when part of this strategy may disenfranchise this group from citizenship . |
| 13 | Let's treat this section in departments : |
| 14 | We need to adopt something like the German distinction between Wissenschaft — that is , knowledge or scholarship , which may cover all subjects including chemistry , history , literature , or physics — and Technik — the ability to make and use things , whether machine-tools , architectural drawings , or stage-scenery . |
| 15 | It is clear that the obligation not to use or disclose information may cover secret processes of manufacture such as chemical formulae , or designs or special methods of construction , and other information which is of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as to amount to a business secret . |
| 16 | He may want one kind of person . |
| 17 | In addition , CAB advisers are proud to be a ‘ one-stop ’ service and there is a fear that a receptionist may make unnecessary referrals in order to relieve queues and so reduce bureaux to the signposting agencies they were once considered to be . |
| 18 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
| 19 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 20 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 21 | We may build active status at work through : |
| 22 | Let's discuss each point in turn . |
| 23 | ‘ I pray that the commotion time will soon be past , that we may enjoy greater peace of mind and slumber of a night-time more soundly in our beds . |
| 24 | For example , skilled workers may enjoy considerable autonomy by virtue of their employer 's reliance on their skills — so much so that the employer gives little thought to attempts to rationalise work or de-skill jobs . |
| 25 | Let's consider multiple grief over time first . |
| 26 | In contrast the explanations of racism in terms of prejudice ( B ) or self interest ( E ) offer ‘ get out clauses ’ for whites and pinpoint specific types of motive or intent which may yield tactical priorities in antiracist work . |
| 27 | The term attenuation may describe any reduction in magnitude of an electrical signal but an electrical network is only called an attenuator if it reduces the magnitude of a signal without changing its time dependence . |
| 28 | More actively , students who can not ‘ adjust ’ equably to being labelled ‘ failures ’ may seek alternative sources of esteem . |
| 29 | In wards where disturbed patients or drug addicts may seek sharp items to self-abuse or inject , efficient disposal is vital . |
| 30 | Second , they may seek this type of identification with a partner and be disappointed when they can not find it . |