Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , in some cases it can be fatal , or may lead to permanent handicap such as deafness or brain damage .
2 Some patients may not have friends or relatives able to give them support at home , or may live in unsuitable accommodation .
3 FENDER Stratocaster , 1969 , refinished red , rosewood neck , no trem , £550 or may swap for good acoustic .
4 Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) .
5 The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications .
6 A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount .
7 These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function .
8 In addition , diagnostic delay causes considerable distress to families and may result in subsequent bitterness if the child 's symptoms are not taken seriously by family or health professionals or if a second affected boy is born .
9 Certainly , the appearance of the two sorts of warts is very different , skin warts being usually less than 5mm in diameter and flattish , while the genital variety are more pointed and ‘ frond-like ’ , and may grow to considerable size .
10 Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting .
11 In addition a recently identified group of pain afferents ( usually functionally dormant and called ‘ sleeping nociceptors ’ ) has been shown to be activated by inflammation and may contribute to peripheral sensitisation to pain after injury .
12 These are not inevitable problems for visually handicapped children and where they occur can sometimes be improved , but they do not tend to be considered assets by other pupils and may contribute to low self-concept .
13 They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year .
14 For a ramped acceleration/deceleration control the task of excitation timing is particularly arduous and may lead to excessive storage requirements , cause the length of each step during acceleration and deceleration occupies a separate storage location .
15 Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect .
16 They have meant that women are no longer quite so much at the mercy of their biology and may engage in sexual intercourse free from the worry of unwanted pregnancy .
17 The increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases and may originate in early life suggests an increasing role for primary care in the management and prevention of the condition in future .
18 The card will be tried out in Northampton over the next six months and should go into full production in nineteen ninety five .
19 Meeting the Australian Prime Minister , Paul Keating , and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade , Gareth Evans , Zhu said that China and Australia had no fundamental conflicts of interest and should co-operate in preserving peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region .
20 But there have been warnings against this — both from black parents and from the conservative popular press — and these are helping teachers to re-evaluate multicultural education and to consider much more fully why it is of benefit for all children and should lead to increased achievement and awareness amongst our pupils .
21 Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition .
22 The formation in 1906 of the United Nobility created a powerful pressure group of major landowners which included strategically-placed members of government and legislature and could rely upon direct access to the Tsar himself .
23 Mr Noble 's report also said : ‘ The formation and use of an additional access to the A172 would add unduly to the hazards of highway users and could result in increased congestion and delays .
24 We can not leave it to the of individual members , that would produce chaos and could leave to destructive manoeuvring .
25 A ROW over a million tons of cooking oil seeds threatens thousands of British jobs and could lead to spiralling price rises on our High Streets .
26 The general answer is that you may copy a sound cassette or a video tape or disc for private use , but if it is copied again and again for commercial gain it is a clear breach of copyright and could lead to legal action .
27 Some practitioners complained that it was to difficult to estimate in advance and could lead to aggressive underpricing which may affect the quality of the work .
28 It was to be a ballad based on the supernatural , as were other popular ballads of the time , and would retell in lively narrative and simple verse form an old mariner 's hypnotic tale .
29 It was suggested that " such units should be part of the psychiatric service and would compare with continuing care units ' of the geriatric service . "
30 I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community .
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