Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 2 | That may have ruined the image a bit , after all , not even Prior , Keen , Baldwin could have had that many motorbike-riding clients . |
| 3 | That may seem to trivialise the intentions of the working party which is now sifting through the comments that have already been submitted to it ( and , although the deadline passed on 30 April , it is still interested in receiving any others sent in as soon as possible ) . |
| 4 | We 're keen to trace him because he might be able to tell us something like a piece of a jigsaw really that may help to put the case together |
| 5 | ‘ Whoever did that must have had the bodies of John and Angela in their possession , either dead or alive . |
| 6 | That should have prompted the police to question him closely , but they never did . |
| 7 | so I should , er , that should have set the precedent , I get paid for it this year |
| 8 | Some may have left the area but many found continued support among dissident laymen and a strong , if scattered , Dissenting tradition grow in Sussex , particularly in the eastern half . |
| 9 | And some may have entered the country illegally , which usefully enforces their silence . |
| 10 | One might tentatively define complementary medicine as diagnostic , therapeutic , and preventive procedures excluded from mainstream medicine ; some may have passed the test of time , most are of unproven effectiveness , and all are based on unscientific philosophies . |
| 11 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 12 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 13 | This may serve to emphasise the effects of local sequence and structure on the dissociation parameters since those that have been rigorously determined with synthetic oligonucleotides are all flanked by short regions of alternating A and T residues . |
| 14 | Perhaps this may serve to emphasise the difficulties of actually manufacturing such items in the period . |
| 15 | While this may appear to emphasise the role of the exchange of primitive valuables , perhaps ceremonial in nature , there are also links between the island and Kent in a limited amount of metalwork , dress and burial form which have encouraged the connections to be viewed in familial terms . |
| 16 | This may involve improving the ability of employees to handle different tasks and move between jobs ; making more use of temporary and part time staff ; or finding ways of rewarding multi-skilled or high performing employees . |
| 17 | This may mean calling the photographer to give evidence that the prints were produced from untouched negatives ( R v Maqsud Ali ( 1966 ) 1 QB 688 ) . |
| 18 | This may mean demolishing the building or returning it to its original use . |
| 19 | He demonstrates instead the extent to which oral and literate forms of language complement each other : ‘ The development of writing takes place within an oral framework of thought and this may continue to dominate the uses of literacy ’ . |
| 20 | This may include drawing the object , an exercise which in itself encourages very close observation . |
| 21 | Incentives to do this may include avoiding the costs of a full hearing , and an opportunity to agree the level of fine and the wording of any press notice . |
| 22 | This may help to explain the difficulty faced in involving small businesses in partnership activities . |
| 23 | Perhaps this may help to explain the determination of the anorexic to go on starving herself : without anorexia , I should have been nothing . |
| 24 | This may help to explain the suspicion entertained by many of his friends that they were being placed in special compartments , never to mingle with those in other compartments , like cells in the honeycomb of his private life . |
| 25 | This may help to explain the decentralisation of manufacturing industry from inner cities to outer areas , |
| 26 | Clearing up the faeces as soon as possible , whether in the garden or a park , is obviously to be recommended in any event , and this may help to break the habit . |
| 27 | This may help to increase the bladder 's capacity . |
| 28 | Overall , this may have given the impression that the Swamp Eel has nothing going for it . |
| 29 | This may have affected the differences we found in relative risks between mortality and admission to hospital for coronary heart disease among the younger men . |
| 30 | Much of the detailed research that has made use of the concept of structured dependency has , however , focused on the relatively small and exceptional subgroup of elderly people living in institutions , for whom the concept of dependency seems more immediately relevant , and this may have biased the outlook of social policy analysts in their discussion of the much larger group of economically and socially independent elderly . |