Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative . |
| 2 | The adult worms in the intestine cause little apparent damage to the mucosa , but occasionally , if large numbers are present , there may be obstruction , and rarely a worm may migrate into the bile duct , causing obstructive jaundice and carcass condemnation . |
| 3 | It may relate to a packaging problem in which a fixed number of unrelated items have to be pressed into the smallest volume . |
| 4 | The characteristics which are common within a specialist collection of data may relate to the subject matter ( e.g. political opinion polls ) , to the time period ( e.g. historical social and demographic records ) , to the geographical coverage ( e.g. Northern Irish data ) , to the administrative units to which they relate ( e.g. New Town 's studies ) or even to the type ( e.g. spatially referenced data ) . |
| 5 | Problems may arise during the installation procedure when the user is required to answer questions regarding the hardware being used . |
| 6 | In the case of genes , we saw in Chapter 3 that co-adapted gene complexes may arise in the gene pool . |
| 7 | In this case it may lend to the discount houses ; then the Bank 's balance sheet will show an increase in advances ( an asset ) and in bankers ' deposits ( a liability ) . |
| 8 | One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons . |
| 9 | You ought to go to the Empress Monday nights . |
| 10 | This ought to go in the paper Mary , not boot not the car boot . |
| 11 | I feel it ought to go before the A G M rather than just be agreed . |
| 12 | Among such factions as may exist in a constituency party one is likely to be dominant , and to imagine that it would consent to the nomination of candidates not numbered among its adherents is scarcely realistic . |
| 13 | Nor do I consider that any in-house tariff which may exist in the Home Office need be disclosed . |
| 14 | However much those two may pander to the anti-police prejudices of the contemporary Labour Party , they are hardly subversive of the bourgeois order . |
| 15 | But she said the council may build within the tendering process preference to companies who will take on staff . |
| 16 | Given the risk associated with the possibility that the market price may fall below the subscription price the timing of a rights issue is extremely important . |
| 17 | When acting as a lead adviser in respect of an acquisition of a private company or business by a listed company there is the normal requirement for due diligence , the coordination of which may fall within the deal management role . |
| 18 | As the chains of the polymer under examination may swell in the carrier solvent to a different extent compared to an equal molar mass sample of the standard , the hydrodynamic volumes will not necessarily be equivalent . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Regulations shall provide that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by a magistrates ' court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Crown Court and that a legal or other representative against whom action is taken by the Crown Court under subsection ( 1 ) may appeal to the Court of Appeal . |
| 20 | A person affected by a forfeiture order may appeal to the Crown Court to have it withdrawn or delayed . |
| 21 | Rule 7.23(1) provides that ‘ a person ’ may appeal to the Appeal Tribunal against various specified matters and amongst those matters is ‘ a notice under Chapter II of this Part of these Rules . ’ |
| 22 | Mr. Collins seeks to avoid this difficulty by referring to rule 7.23(1) , which provides ‘ a person may appeal to the Appeal Tribunal … against a notice under Chapter II of this Part of these Rules , ’ that is to say , against a prohibition notice . |
| 23 | The argument here is based upon the wording of rule 7.23 , which starts : ‘ A person may appeal to the Appeal Tribunal … |
| 24 | The holder of a licence may appeal against a suspension order ( subs . |
| 25 | " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer . |
| 26 | He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’ |
| 27 | In this case , provided that the merger affects inter-state trade , the Commission may act under the Merger Regulation . |
| 28 | The induction of apoptosis by p53 following genotoxic insult may act as a defence mechanism to protect the organism from the propagation of cells that have sustained mutation . |
| 29 | He suggested that Hungary may act as a support centre for Data General 's entire Eastern European operations , while a local manufacturing site could help the company secure more of the large projects currently being financed under the European Community 's PHARE scheme — European-based suppliers are favoured under PHARE criteria . |
| 30 | You may act as a role model and a mentor to others . |