Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or let's forget the whole thing . ’ |
| 2 | As the Group is vertically integrated , finished goods held by one company may be sold outside the Group or may form the raw materials of other companies within the Group . |
| 3 | This argument overlooks a feature of addictive disease that is often overlooked by those who currently advocate substitution with medically prescribed drugs : the addict will commonly take the prescribed drug and an additional illegal drug or may sell the prescribed drug in order to obtain a preferred illegal drug . |
| 4 | How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects . |
| 5 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 6 | Problems that improve temporarily and then relapse again and the previously effective remedy no longer works ; a dose or two of Sulphur in this situation will often either clear up the problem or will allow the indicated remedy to work again . |
| 7 | Under the guarantee , McCaw will buy the remaining LIN shares in five years at an agreed private market price or will put the entire LIN company up for sale . |
| 8 | Officials never have or can have the full range of choices displayed before them . |
| 9 | So vesti la guibba — on with the motley — and let's hope the final curtain never falls for the Neptune . |
| 10 | And let's say the maximum number of engines we can ever have will be up to about twenty five . |
| 11 | Immediately a sea of hands shot up , waving , and Gerrard nodded and cried , ‘ And let's get the other side . |
| 12 | If they appear to be two-dimensional they suddenly seem less ‘ animal-like ’ and may avoid the unwelcome attentions of a hungry predator . |
| 13 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 14 | These drugs may aggravate hypoglycaemia ( Newman , 1976 ; Lager et al , 1979 ) , may result in undamped hypertensive surges secondary to hypoglycaemic catecholamine release ( McMurty , 1974 ; Shepherd et al , 1981 ) and may threaten the peripheral circulation by arteriolar constriction ( McSorley & Warren , 1978 ; Vale & Jeffreys , 1978 ) . |
| 15 | The announcement fuelled the West 's already strong apprehensions over North Korea 's nuclear capacity and may leave the isolated state 's near-bankrupt economy open to retaliatory UN sanctions . |
| 16 | These characters become real , and may give the lonely viewer the benefits normally derived from being with other people . |
| 17 | Sampling directly from the pancreatic duct provides a more proximate sample for cytological diagnosis and may improve the diagnostic sensitivity . |
| 18 | This appears to coincide with the base of the granite batholith and may represent the basal Variscan thrust . |
| 19 | An additional problem is that the resource requirements for the necessary development work may result in a degraded service to lexicographers and may displace the interactive work of lexicographers from time to time . |
| 20 | NOTE In some cultures , especially among Asian women , it is bad manners to make eye contact and may upset the other person . |
| 21 | When the agency has produced specific proposals for your campaign — or anything else you may have asked for — the account executive will normally introduce them , and may present the entire proposals personally , without calling on other members of the group to cover their specialities . |
| 22 | Fire , especially when high temperatures are obtained , will destroy the aboveground woody biomass and litter and may impair the reproductive potential of plants by reducing the seed bank in the soil . |
| 23 | Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy . |
| 24 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 25 | If they fail , the temperature of the reactor core rises and the fuel melts and may breach the main containment above the reactor . |
| 26 | Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) . |
| 27 | As such they are in a position to see themselves as running a business and may adopt the whole gambit of business techniques when addressing their organisational problems . |
| 28 | While the principals are required to confer the benefits of the various employment protection laws upon their employees , they themselves are deprived of any such security , and must pay the special tax for self-employed people masquerading as national insurance , in addition to the insurance premiums needed to provide for retirement or illness . |
| 29 | In a more positive way , by raising public expectations , social services may , for better or for worse , reinforce the general belief that economic growth is and must remain the paramount objective of any government . |
| 30 | The only real meter of sexuality and its changing ways is and must remain the actual extent of the increase in sexual relationships and their intensity , and the degree to which people as a whole are more tolerant of such relationships under varying circumstances . |