Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [noun pl] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy . |
| 2 | We have rules that executive share option schemes may grant options at a discount only if the employer also runs an all-employee scheme . |
| 3 | If the customer may make orders for a number of parts , then ‘ part ’ must also be a key attribute as there will be several tuples with the same ‘ Name ’ . |
| 4 | People may buy shares in a target company simply because it has attracted the attentions of a potential offeror which is known to have a good eye for investment opportunities . |
| 5 | However , it should not just act as a check-list but should relate facts about a country to the expatriate 's new life style . |
| 6 | To be mutually consistent the constrained demand for goods must ration firms in a manner that restricts their demand for labour to give rise to the initial constrained demand for goods . |
| 7 | If you manage to resolve the baby 's problems , but find yourself on a quite restricted diet , then you should retest foods after a month or two . |
| 8 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
| 9 | ‘ In order to properly defend our clients , ’ Shaughnessy explained later , ‘ we decided that we should serve subpoenas on a number of Federal agencies in an effort to determine whether the government had any documentation which would either confirm or dispute what Mr Aviv had reported . ’ |
| 10 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 11 | Because financial management is a major part of the school/ governor relationship , it is particularly important that the head should handle affairs with a mixture of care , adroitness and vision . |
| 12 | On the other hand , she may show signs of a kind of restless agitation which can be equally hard to handle . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you , if ever I get into the Owsla , I 'll treat outskirters with a bit of decency . " |
| 14 | On Oct. 25 the European Commission also denied reports that Delors and the US Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton had reached a secret understanding to block a GATT agreement which might boost chances of a Republican victory . |
| 15 | But there are other kinds of sequence , too , such as a text-by-text commentary on works in a collection ( e.g. Lyrical Ballads ) ; or you might recount events in a narrative , telling your reader the story in the order in which it happens . |
| 16 | After they have gone there would be financial chaos with severely or perhaps mortally wounded airlines remaining at the City — it might take years for a network of routes to be soundly re-established . |
| 17 | The Regulations recognise that a teacher may keep notes on a pupil simply for his or her own use . |
| 18 | A chalk stream , for example , may flow at a virtually constant level summer and winter , while flash floods may occur miles from a water course or in hollows well above the water table . |
| 19 | For example , a questionnaire designed to investigate attitudes towards work may provide respondents with a list of statements indicating a point of view to which they have to express a level of agreement or disagreement ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 20 | Working through committees may provide opportunities for a form of participation in decision-making in an institution ( a cynical view would be that at least it may give the illusion of this ) , but by their nature committees can be introspective and restricted in their outlook . |
| 21 | Or you could make under-curtains in a lighter , toning or contrasting fabric to pull backwards and forwards while the original curtains remain stationary . |
| 22 | Jones made a hole in the wall of his home at Brockhampton , so he could pipe fumes from a car exhaust into his wife 's bedroom . |
| 23 | The intended budget of £5 million could reap benefits in a city where tourist revenue is becoming a principal source of wealth . |
| 24 | He could talk horses , he could give instructions to a jockey but the confidential fireside chat was not his style . |
| 25 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 26 | Now that the death looked painful , now that he could see traces of a struggle , he began , in a kind of panic , to say things in his head , he began to talk to the dead man . |
| 27 | A choice of colour or new hairdo , lipstick that only a fashion model would wear , could work wonders for a woman . |
| 28 | She could spend hours at a dressing-table , gravely staring at her reflection just as an artist might gaze on his work in search of a final gloss that might turn a merely pretty picture into a masterpiece . |
| 29 | " Well , I thought I 'd hurry things along a bit , " ( His agile mind was forever seeking new methods of conserving energy . ) |
| 30 | Because official sanctioning of a rise in interest rates could be slow , a " funding pause " could result : this led to problems with controlling broad money , which in turn could reinforce expectations of a rise in interest rates . |