Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Background noise may entirely obliterate the consonant sounds .
2 Because saliva contains high concentrations of bicarbonate , even small voumes of swallowed saliva may significantly contaminate the oesophageal segment .
3 Interaction may also affect the intracellular milieu by changing the intracellular pH .
4 The region 's relatively high rainfall may encourage these wetland species , but their presence may also reflect the wider tolerance plants show when freed from having to compete .
5 It is possible for some urethral discharge from the penis to be transferred to the seat if the male is sitting down ; and if a second male should accidentally touch the same part of the seat soon afterwards with his penis , then infection could be acquired .
6 Galleries should be avoided , to get away from the idea of a theatre with an audience watching an actor but the pulpit must still remain the central feature .
7 The Chairman must always put the final substantive motion to the vote .
8 Using the package name and the identifier of the DC in AGREED state , the user must now associate the two , using option 2.4.0 , Activate DC .
9 To rock diehards , The Orb may well represent the unauthentic , trivial voice of the faceless ‘ It 's all done with mirrors ’ culture .
10 A gale may otherwise blow the whole fence over .
11 Those who cling to an impression of Reger as an unrelievedly turgid and ponderous musician should certainly sample the 6 Burlesques of 1901 which open this recital .
12 This partial closure should still allow the same amount of carbon dioxide to enter , as the carbon dioxide gradient would be greater in a higher carbon dioxide environment , but should reduce the loss of water vapour as the humidity gradient will be little altered .
13 To acknowledge this rule should thus have the double advantage of eliminating any appearance of royal partiality in selecting a Prime Minister on these occasions , and of ensuring that the parties obtain the leaders they want by the methods they want .
14 Be very aware on every row , when working on the left-hand side of the machine , that the carriage should completely clear the patterning panel EACH row .
15 Such an emphasis on the inner light might also threaten the collaborative aspects of scientific research , which Boyle considered essential for the public good .
16 But this too might fail to expose the error , for the stranger might simply guess the right answers , or his answers might be so close to those expected of him that even the most scrupulous interrogator would be deceived .
17 So it has dawned on the financial markets that the enemy might actually win the next election .
18 Precocious growth of the vine in late winter or early spring could well render the vital flowering vulnerable to the severest of spring frosts .
19 Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all .
20 Aulén makes the telling point that no amount of legalism or rationalism could entirely destroy the Divine Drama , because the mythology of the Great Battle is too dominant in the New Testament to be suppressed .
21 On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place .
22 Any offensive operations which the United States might have to conduct on the Asiatic continent would probably avoid the Korean peninsula .
23 Lords of the manor would either flatten the encroaching village and build a new one some distance away , or build their new house on a different site in pastoral isolation .
24 So if consumer and citizen avoidable death and injury were added to workers avoidably killed and injured , then the ratio between corporate criminal violence and ‘ conventional ’ criminal violence would clearly put the former in an extremely unfavourable light .
25 Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process .
26 By itself , apical HCl secretion would progressively alkalinise the parietal cell and deplete it of Cl - .
27 Their inclusion in a community prevalence study would therefore inflate the resultant prevalence rate .
28 Ministers were to work out what the plan would need in their respective areas of responsibility and the Ministry of Industry would subsequently devise the necessary " practical solutions " .
29 A defeat would gravely damage the Prime Minister 's authority at home and abroad .
30 Inconsistent State practice would only defeat the entire purpose of the convention for a stable regime .
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