Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A possible explanation is that the reduced bile flow as shown in cholesterol gall stone patients may enhance the absorption of water in the bile duct and may thus produce hepatic bile with a greater total lipid concentration .
2 The judge also has the power , where the reporting of one case may affect the interests of justice in a subsequent case , to postpone the reporting of the earlier case .
3 Thus , in this model , even anticipated movements in aggregate demand may affect the level of output .
4 Chapter 19 of the General Theory is devoted in its entirety to an exploration of the different routes through which reductions in money wages may affect the level of employment .
5 These can themselves be productive of problems for the people concerned , or they may affect the kind of advice or counsel which the social worker should offer .
6 However , the introduction of proposals which structurally divorce the providers of services from wider population considerations , may be considered by some to be a retrograde step and , in practice , may affect the type of care delivered .
7 It is also accepted that the presence of risk factors may affect the length of treatment required to effect healing but the optimal duration of treatment in the presence of specific risk factors has never been investigated .
8 The nature of representative politics may affect the continuity of policy .
9 This may affect the form of conflict , favouring , for example , the short , widely publicized demonstration strike .
10 Thus whether near money assets such as call money , bills and short-dated bonds count as liquid may affect the amount of credit created .
11 That a switch from tax to debt finance may affect the rate of capital formation has been argued by Modigliani ( 1961 ) in the context of a simple life-cycle model .
12 Our findings suggest that this ‘ inappropriate ’ adrenergic response may facilitate the development of tachycardiomyopathy and could be a target for therapy .
13 She may experience a crisis of disbelief in her religious faith , or direct her anger towards the medical or nursing staff who cared for her husband , for failing to save his life ; or she may blame family or friends and have feelings of guilt and anger against herself for things that were done or not done during his lifetime .
14 When a young child plays ‘ What time is it , Mr. Wolf ? ’ , she may experience a moment of panic when the ‘ Wolf ’ shouts , ‘ Dinner time ! ’ and chases her .
15 Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’
16 On the one hand there is the lofty principle , spelled out in the inscription carved into the walls of Broadcasting House , ‘ that the people , inclining their ear to whatsoever things are lovely and honest , whatsoever things are of good report , may tread the path of virtue and of wisdom . ’
17 This may explain the absence of CH 4 in the breath of many people in western populations .
18 This may explain the absence of methane in the breath of 40–50% of western populations .
19 Instability and lack of direction from Head Office may explain the absence of growth in the early 1980s .
20 They serve none the less to illustrate the way in which the structure of production may influence the incidence of taxation in a simple general equilibrium framework .
21 Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below .
22 Users of the information system may influence the explicitness of detail in a list .
23 From the preceding analysis , it is clear that taxation may influence the distribution of wealth , income and consumption in three distinct ways :
24 We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand .
25 Whilst religious traditions may prefer the theme of light as more poetic , their theologians find more prosaic ways to represent the divine presence .
26 Help those who seek to communicate the gospel , in words , in pictures , in books , on radio , television and films ; give them the help of your Holy Spirit , so that they may convey the message of hope and new life to the hearts and the minds of those who hear , who read , who watch .
27 In deciding whether MAS should attend such a meeting , it will be important to consider whether our presence may hinder the achievement of objective ( a ) .
28 A board may restrict the type of liquor which may be sold under an occasional licence ( subs .
29 Leicester lie sixth in the First Division after a midweek defeat at Charlton and may make a change of captaincy .
30 There are two factors particularly which may make the aim of clarity of description difficult to achieve : the breadth of a criterion and ambiguity in its description .
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