Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 2 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 3 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
| 4 | Two groups may act to stop such complacency . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) . |
| 6 | As a matter of good practice , local authorities should consider using this power as an alternative to removing the child under an emergency protection order ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 4.31 ) . |
| 7 | District health authorities should cease to have direct responsibility for managing the hospitals and units . |
| 8 | After the 1988 Family Support Act , states must help to provide one year of child care for mothers who leave welfare for a job or training . |
| 9 | While the words may have played little part in Nationalist propaganda , and the ideas they connoted have been uncongenial to many Catholics and erstwhile liberal monarchists within the Nationalist camp , nevertheless the prominence of the Falange and the involvement of Italy and Germany sufficed to satisfy most foreign observers , and by no means only those on the left , that the Spanish rebels were indeed ‘ fascists ’ . |
| 10 | Those who are here for less than 6 months may need to arrange medical insurance . |
| 11 | The concept of geographical provinces may have gained some currency because it could be understood as a biological equivalent of the nations of humanity — and the early nineteenth century was a period of strong nationalist feelings . |
| 12 | It is also possible that the animals may have had other significance . |
| 13 | It appears to follow from his realist and essentialist assumptions that other interpreters over the centuries must have lacked real insight into the metaphorical structure of King Lear . |
| 14 | As for the comment that umpires should start enforcing this law , I assure Mr. Byran that the first-class umpires ' panel , the best in the world , are fully aware of the law , very observant , and most certainly fearless in its application . |
| 15 | I 'm simply reminding manufacturers that the guitarist 's craft developed from the tools originally available to him , and equipment designers should work to enhance that craft , not enforce change upon it . |
| 16 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 17 | In rural districts and in manufacturing towns charity schools could expect to make little progress against the competition of child employment and complaints of this came repeatedly from clothing and mining districts . |
| 18 | But although amino acids might well have become strung together to form primitive proteins , it is difficult to see how those proteins could have had any kind of coherent structure , or multiplied themselves efficiently , without help from DNA . |
| 19 | Only very partisan supporters could have gleaned much pleasure from this match . |
| 20 | Mr Peter Smith , general secretary of the 120,000-strong Assistant Masters ' and Mistresses ' Association , said the general election result meant that hundreds of schools would seek to leave local authority control ‘ within the next few weeks ’ . |
| 21 | Pupils at the new schools would have to expect longer working days and longer terms than at maintained schools . |
| 22 | I ca n't afford to replace them , so I was wondering if any of your readers would like to donate any Guitarist s they may have and no longer read . |
| 23 | If it was merely a technical matter , personal computers would have meant increased autonomy for office workers just as Apple 's founders predicted . |
| 24 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 25 | Despite the small scale of production the craftsmen would have needed considerable knowledge and skill to accumulate the equipment and materials to produce these brooches . |
| 26 | In Britain similarly parties would have to give careful attention to the locality factor . |
| 27 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 28 | By the mid-sixties , you see , a large proportion of homes would have got fitted carpeting throughout , so there 's that kind of difference . |
| 29 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 30 | Kids would have made more mess . |