Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps an immunologically vulnerable subset of inflammatory bowel disease patients , Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis alike , are prone to develop refractory pouchitis under the influence of certain mechanical , vascular , bacteriological or biochemical factors , or all four that may arise in an ileal reservoir . |
| 2 | For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own . |
| 3 | The problems that may arise from an individual pupil 's needs must also be addressed , and possible solutions proffered . |
| 4 | The obligation may arise from an express term in the lease or may be implied by statute : e.g. the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 , ss. 11 and 12 , which require the landlord to repair the exterior and structure of premises , where the lease of a dwelling house is for less than seven years . |
| 5 | Also , the opponent may fall in an unexpected direction , so that you have to spin around and perhaps take a step to reach him . |
| 6 | To help us draw a line between the incidental transfer of information , and communication proper , we may appeal to an important idea of the philosopher Grice ( 1957 ) . |
| 7 | The findings show that EATCL may behave in an indolent fashion and masquerade as coeliac disease , delaying the correct diagnosis . |
| 8 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 9 | While the Arts Council may survive as an advisory body , the crucial question is whether it retains a funding role : ‘ The days of the arm 's length principle are gone . |
| 10 | This threat of takeover may act as an effective discipline in some cases , although it is hard to prove . |
| 11 | Transmitter substances appear also to be released at neuromuscular junctions : there is evidence that glutamate is responsible for transmitting excitation from nerves to muscle ( e.g. Beranek and Miller , 1969 ) and that GABA may act as an inhibitory transmitter at these sites . |
| 12 | One possible reason for the cure is that the alcohol may act as an anti-inflammatory agent , stopping symptoms like a runny nose . |
| 13 | I 'm going with a Scum season ticket holder and Newcastle Utd fan should make for an interesting evening all round . |
| 14 | It seems that here , at least , we must appeal to an extra-terrestrial cause . |
| 15 | A firm which is not a tied firm and which provides investment services in respect of packaged products must act as an independent adviser in respect of those products . |
| 16 | Sometimes children must wait for an empty chair at the milk table before they can sit down . |
| 17 | Now Whitaker must concentrate on an Olympic challenge with the charismatic grey , as Mr and Mrs Bradley , who would not let him go to Seoul , have given permission for him to compete in Barcelona . |
| 18 | Western diplomats wonder why Mr Suharto , a man who has near royal status in Indonesia , should behave like an everyday politician who likes to see his name in print . |
| 19 | Indeed , wherever assistance is defined as a gift ( rather than , for example , part of a broader pattern of exchange ) , it is likely to be regarded as inappropriate that the potential beneficiary should behave in an instrumental way towards the potential donor . |
| 20 | Secondly , a difference in the ability of the two halves of the brain to utilise advance information in selecting the required stimulus feature for further processing should result in an asymmetrical effect of pre-cueing in the partial report condition as compared with the full report condition . |
| 21 | Next I must refer to an established principle of statutory construction which looms large on this appeal . |
| 22 | The prospect of a university education must appear as an unattainable dream : some are successful but these are exceptional cases . |
| 23 | By focusing upon the costs of production in different regions , the bases of competition , various indices of performance , and the major bottlenecks to growth , the study should contribute to an improved understanding of spatial variations in small firm development . |
| 24 | The garden for them should feel like an extra sitting room , gnat-ridden perhaps , damp occasionally , but an important overflow of living space . |
| 25 | Since it was essential to Bismarck 's plans that France should appear as an aggressive power , threatening Prussia in particular and the peace of Europe in general , the situation was not developing as he had hoped . |
| 26 | The overflow itself should discharge in an obvious place where it can not be ignored . |
| 27 | Those bidding up share prices these days must believe in an endless supply of future suckers . |
| 28 | Borrowing from the Intel Corp/MS-DOS world , the idea was that character-based applications should run on an ABI-compliant version of Unix as easily on one machine as on another with the same CPU . |
| 29 | In such a case the tenant 's adviser should insist on an express covenant by the landlord to keep the road in repair and the grant of an express easement to the tenant to use the road . |
| 30 | One of the suggestions , revolutionary at the time , which Swire put to his board in London , was that female clerks should work on an equal footing , and for the same pay as men ; and that Swire recruits earmarked for Eastern posts should learn Chinese . |