Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 3 | Prior to running Directory Integrity Check , the user may wish to identify any files of a particular type in the directory/directory structure which are to be excluded from the comparison e.g. DIR , LOG etc . |
| 4 | As an alternative to a good kicking , the gang may decide to have some fun once they have rushed you . |
| 5 | More exceptionally still , Parliament may endeavour to prevent judicial review and may wish the decisions of the tribunal to be final and beyond the supervisory jurisdiction of the ordinary courts . |
| 6 | Diaper may have taken another cure in Crick , Northamptonshire , and by March 1713–14 was serving in Dean , near Basingstoke . |
| 7 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 8 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 9 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 10 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 11 | Thus , the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon . |
| 12 | No one with cash and no part-exchange should consider buying used Sierras from franchised dealers , who invariably ask unrealistic prices . |
| 13 | It is unsurprising that the cinema should have sought legal parity with the theatre on questions of obscenity , which it did in a petition forwarded to the Home Secretary by the BBFC in 1977 on behalf of the Cinema Consultative Committee , which comprised delegates from the film industry and from all the associations of local licensing authorities in Great Britain and Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | In addition , personnel working in this field must have received adequate training in the assessment procedure , and in the management of interpersonal and family problems . |
| 15 | Even if such inscriptions were non-existent rather than just rare , it would be no more than commonsense to guess that generals in the field must have enjoyed great executive latitude , especially in wartime — more latitude than was compatible with the exercise of detailed control , and so of full sovereignty , by the Assembly . |
| 16 | But there is no intrinsic reason why all parts of a course should try to strike that balance . |
| 17 | Although the European Parliament may get more power , its competence is still limited , so the German parliament must help to ensure some accountability over EC matters . |
| 18 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |
| 19 | As he dwelt particularly on the menace of the French positions on the Left Bank , the Heir to the Throne must have had some difficulty hiding a note of ‘ I-told-so-you-so ’ For Falkenhayn , in his insistence on limiting the attack to one bank only , had stood in an isolation that was hardly splendid . |
| 20 | Process redesign may have generated more hype than light , but at its core is the imaginative use of today 's computing power in ways that can be peculiarly useful to banks . |
| 21 | Or the employee may wish to seek medical advice on his own account , which , brought to the notice of the employers ' medical advisers , will cause them to change their opinion . |
| 22 | Other businesses may obtain their terms from a trade association or similar organisation , in which case the association may have taken legal advice in the preparation of the terms . |
| 23 | French raids on the English south coast may have inflicted some damage , but in general the wealthier parts of the country were free of fighting . |
| 24 | The episode may seem to illustrate sheer bloodymindedness , but the platers ' action was not unreasonable from their point of view . |
| 25 | Secondly , a greater percentage of the population in the rural areas was screened and if the prevalence of diabetes was similar in each area the screening programme may have missed more patients with advanced retinopathy in urban areas . |
| 26 | ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole . |
| 27 | At the same time , it said , the new rule may help to build public trust by retaining clear federal supervision and by providing enough time for local officials and public interest groups to react to any proposed field test . |
| 28 | We shall see that there are other indications that the Belfast /a/ system was formerly more inclined to the front than it is now , and as we have noted above , the EModE front-raising rule may have affected some dialects later than others . |
| 29 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 30 | The high rate of diagnostic revision ( 25% ) based on this independent , blind histopathological review may have overdiagnosed definite Crohn 's disease but in many the final diagnosis was uncertain and labelled as indeterminate colitis . |