Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The duties of a trustee may be indefinitely varied by the terms of the instrument which creates the trust , and may range from a mere duty to make a legal conveyance to the beneficiary at his request , and in the meantime to permit him to possess and enjoy the property , to extensive and onerous duties of management , sale , investment , and application of capital and income .
2 For the searcher who goes on and comes to believe , this is the only possible starting point — a sense of need which may range from a mild discomfort to a deep conviction , but which spurs him to look for a solution beyond himself .
3 They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed .
4 The information disclosed in published accounts may relate to a single company or to a group of companies under a holding company .
5 In Japan there are negative correlations with per cent of research and with production involvement in design , which may relate to the tentative hypothesis offered about the negative correlations with technical success .
6 The ‘ broken column ’ may relate to the traditional graveyard image of premature death , as well as to the ‘ broken stone ’ of section three where ‘ stone images/ Are raised ’ .
7 One reason for these variable results may relate to the differing degress of stringency applied to the diagnosis and confirmation of complete gall stone dissolution .
8 This association , as implied previously , may relate to the antinatriuretic action of insulin which is perhaps the common link between obesity and elevated blood pressure ( Bjorntorp , 1982 ) .
9 The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin .
10 ‘ Something tells me you may bump into a little politics on the way . ’
11 Let's think of the general model right .
12 All these levels may be seen as controlled by the relationship of the people involved in the discourse , which we may regard as the highest level .
13 Inquiries may arise as a natural consequence of conducting business .
14 The DRO can follow up a placement to discuss any problems that may arise between the disabled worker and his employer .
15 A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir .
16 The nature of the problem can be illustrated by giving a few examples of the types of conflict that may arise in a financial conglomerate .
17 Perhaps an immunologically vulnerable subset of inflammatory bowel disease patients , Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis alike , are prone to develop refractory pouchitis under the influence of certain mechanical , vascular , bacteriological or biochemical factors , or all four that may arise in an ileal reservoir .
18 Classes may arise in the following way .
19 For others , the feeling of being trapped may arise from an early blueprint drawn up when they were literally helpless and unable to do anything about an intolerable situation or to get out of it on their own .
20 The problems that may arise from an individual pupil 's needs must also be addressed , and possible solutions proffered .
21 The obligation may arise from an express term in the lease or may be implied by statute : e.g. the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 , ss. 11 and 12 , which require the landlord to repair the exterior and structure of premises , where the lease of a dwelling house is for less than seven years .
22 Several health problems may arise from the uncontrolled ong term abuse of self administered laxatives but this study focuses only on anthranoid laxatives and their relation to the development of colorectal cancer .
23 Let's build on the good news , that Heseltine and Cook understand the need for a national industrial strategy .
24 The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity .
25 However if you plan to do a lot of recording of teaching and can arrange for classes to come to one special recording room you may think about a two-camera system .
26 In the same way , we may think of the ideal encounter of a particle with a molecule as an elastic collision in which no energy is transferred .
27 Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal .
28 We may think of the initial photon as being absorbed , so that the molecule is excited to a ‘ virtual ’ state , whose lifetime is so short that there is effectively immediate re-emission of a photon whose energy may be different from hν by a quantum of vibrational energy .
29 The disabled child — particularly one who is severely disabled , either physically or mentally — may labour under a distorted upbringing which adversely affects the development of relationship capacity ; he or she is likely to have less opportunity for peer relationships and the process of sexual and quasi-sexual learning which takes place between children ; there will be much less opportunity in later life for sexual partnership or marriage ; and so on .
30 But besides unintentional incorrect reporting in newspapers there is also the problem of bias , much of which may emanate from the political stance taken by a newspaper in an uncensored society .
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