Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But they can just look through so they can say I ca n't think of an accent let's have a quick look through this list . |
| 32 | One Orc boar chariot may carry a Magic Standard . |
| 33 | One Goblin wolf chariot may carry a Magic Standard . |
| 34 | This condition is not sufficient to guarantee that the correct answer has been found because more than one hypothesis may span the entire utterance . |
| 35 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 36 | While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk , it also renders his portrait mundane . |
| 37 | Of course , high energy stimulation even of the wrong kind may stimulate a sensory ending ; for example , excessive pressure on the eyeball will produce a sensation of light . |
| 38 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 39 | For instance , an ill-judged price reduction may have an opposite effect to that desired . |
| 40 | His present may trigger the inevitable family festive fall-out usually breaking out somewhere between the Queen 's speech at three and the Christmas cake at five . |
| 41 | Both the second and , more strongly , the third reason show that the doctrine of excessive defence may include a substantial element of excuse in its rationale , even though its theoretical foundation lies unmistakably in the concept of legal justification . |
| 42 | In addition , especially in insulin-dependent patients , diabetic nephropathy initially presenting as either overt proteinuria or microalbuminuria may play a key role in the pathogenesis of hypertension . |
| 43 | Possibly photography may have a new life as trompe l'oeil . |
| 44 | A Thatcherite economist may despise the Keynesian clap-trap praised , indeed worshipped , by previous generations of lecturers , but if he strips the library of Keynesian texts his students will undoubtedly lose perspective . |
| 45 | The sudden , unexpected appearance of the bright blue tongue of this skink may startle an approaching predator sufficiently to make it think twice about attacking . |
| 46 | A creditor may appoint the official receiver to be his general or special proxy . |
| 47 | Third , it has been suggested that government provision may encourage an unhelpful separation between payment and cost in the minds of consumers . |
| 48 | And let us hope that the reader , on summing-up this look into the past at the Gorbals of yester-year , may say : ‘ These were real people , ordinary men and women , whose passage through the Gorbals not only added colour to a drab area of this Scottish city , but whose presence may remain a lasting influence for good . ’ |
| 49 | As external forms , however , objects may also be independent of the interpretation of any one particular group , and their consistency as a material presence may belie the actual variety of meanings they evoke . |
| 50 | I have considered this previously in the context of necessity , and have suggested that necessity may provide an adequate ground for ignoring such a request . |
| 51 | First , the evolution of a new unique sequence with a new function may require the selective modification of as few as 5 per cent of the bases . |
| 52 | In some cases the corpus of story may imply a whole hierarchy of discriminations : " we " are distinguished from " others " , friends from foes , recognized neighbours from unrecognized strangers , gods from men , men from animals , " real " animals from monsters , and so on . |
| 53 | The passage brings sharply to attention the powerful and complex ways in which elements of the Passion story may provoke a meditative response . |
| 54 | The Hector 's story may have a happy ending , as the establishment of entanglement . |
| 55 | Finally , if agencies are able to ‘ control the agenda ’ by offering only one expenditure programme as an alternative to the ‘ reversion level ’ if the plan is not accepted , then variations in the reversion level may have a perverse effect on spending . |
| 56 | That social support may play a major role in modifying the deleterious effects of stress on health and may also influence other aspects of health behaviour such as use of health services and the following of medical advice appears now to be widely accepted . |
| 57 | Support may help a bereaved parent to cope with his or her own feelings of loss , and thereby be better able to recognise their children 's needs and vulnerability . |
| 58 | The authors suggest that extreme malnutrition may affect the immune system and make the disease more likely . |
| 59 | The route , via Donkey Lane , is lovely countryside and the experience should become the exact opposite of the stress and distress she obviously gets from driving . |
| 60 | The experience should provide a general introduction to the world of work and the opportunity to begin self-awareness of the individual 's skills , aptitudes and interests in relation to work . |