Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploration of these phenomena may eventually revolutionise the whole way we look at the world . |
| 2 | Even some loyalists and Cabinet members believe that a referendum on Europe may eventually prove the only way to stop the Conservative benches splintering . |
| 3 | What we may loosely term the formal/informal continuum is simply expressed in different code sets in different societies : by language choice in bilingual societies , by dialect switching in diglossic situations , and by style shift in monolingual societies . |
| 4 | However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome . |
| 5 | On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated . |
| 6 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 7 | Ironically , though Sweeney appears to promise a way out , he may only lead the sensitive reader back into the circle of sexual-religious speculations . |
| 8 | Insurance may ONLY cover the current market value of your car , not what you paid for it . |
| 9 | MID-RANGE motorcycles may only cover the 25O-65Occ class , but there 's nothing average in the type and style of biking they offer . |
| 10 | The problem is that despite all the well-intentioned efforts of those who have devised the various syllabuses , whether for the old CSE/ ‘ O ’ levels or the new GCSE , what can be accurately assessed may only represent a small part of what arts education is all about . |
| 11 | If the Hot Pot has only one crewman left it may only fire every other turn . |
| 12 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 13 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 14 | So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training . |
| 15 | It must be remembered that a child with an IQ of 50 may only have the mental age of nine when they leave school , although their social abilities may be reasonably comparable with their actual age . |
| 16 | There may , of course , be some discrepancy between the ideal and the reality , and we may better understand the positive potential of the custom by remembering how easily it can be spoilt if something goes wrong . |
| 17 | The transsexual , once stabilized in the role long seen as the only natural one , may naturally want a normal family life . |
| 18 | By this means we may greatly enhance the external validity of the study ( see Section 15.3 ) . |
| 19 | Every border is in some sense arbitrary , but the international community must rigorously enforce the golden rule that no border can be changed by unilateral resort to force . |
| 20 | The relegation of less frequently used books to remote storage should eventually increase the overall relevance of the stock to users ' needs and therefore lead to a more efficient use of resources ( assuming that books which replace the neglected material issue more frequently ) . |
| 21 | In order to pass the project students must successfully complete the written report and the verbal presentation and gain a mark of 50% overall . |
| 22 | The collector must obviously have the Revised Version of 1881–95 , and some other notable attempts ( not , in everyone 's view , attended with much success ) to improve on the Authorised Version . |
| 23 | In outlining the strategies potentially available to a translator , I am therefore not suggesting that translators should necessarily follow the thematic organization of every clause in the source text . |
| 24 | He sees no reason why those sharing a similar class situation should necessarily develop a common identity , recognize shared interests and take collective action to further those interests . |
| 25 | Instead of postulating a single link between CS and US we should perhaps imagine a whole collection of them ( the exact number depending on which attributes of the stimuli are noticed and encoded by the animal ) , all of which play some part in generating the CR . |
| 26 | At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation , higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range , standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking . |
| 27 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 28 | IT 'S ONE of the ancient myths of conservatories that they must necessarily trap the maximum amount of sunlight . |
| 29 | As Levinas puts it , ‘ the idea of truth as a grasp on things must necessarily have a non-metaphorical sense somewhere ’ . |
| 30 | Lubrication may be provided by melting between mineral boundaries , but molten material must only form a small proportion of the asthenosphere since it is capable of transmitting S-waves . |