Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exploration of these phenomena may eventually revolutionise the whole way we look at the world . |
| 2 | Even some loyalists and Cabinet members believe that a referendum on Europe may eventually prove the only way to stop the Conservative benches splintering . |
| 3 | What we may loosely term the formal/informal continuum is simply expressed in different code sets in different societies : by language choice in bilingual societies , by dialect switching in diglossic situations , and by style shift in monolingual societies . |
| 4 | Ironically , though Sweeney appears to promise a way out , he may only lead the sensitive reader back into the circle of sexual-religious speculations . |
| 5 | Insurance may ONLY cover the current market value of your car , not what you paid for it . |
| 6 | MID-RANGE motorcycles may only cover the 25O-65Occ class , but there 's nothing average in the type and style of biking they offer . |
| 7 | Agreement between models , which has been construed as showing the accuracy of simulated Late Permian climates , may only reflect the fundamental shortcomings in parameters employed by all models , such as the palaeogeography . |
| 8 | Only users which were specified during the configuration of LIFESPAN RDBI may view LIFESPAN information within the relational database , and they may only view the same information as they have access to in LIFESPAN . |
| 9 | R.2 also provides that a recognised body may only provide the professional services described above . |
| 10 | It must be remembered that a child with an IQ of 50 may only have the mental age of nine when they leave school , although their social abilities may be reasonably comparable with their actual age . |
| 11 | There may , of course , be some discrepancy between the ideal and the reality , and we may better understand the positive potential of the custom by remembering how easily it can be spoilt if something goes wrong . |
| 12 | Background noise may entirely obliterate the consonant sounds . |
| 13 | By this means we may greatly enhance the external validity of the study ( see Section 15.3 ) . |
| 14 | The sudden release of many young into the savannah at the same time may perhaps swamp the waiting predators and thus constitute in itself a survival strategy . |
| 15 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 16 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 17 | That one producer has expended resources in order to educate or manipulate consumer tastes may perhaps offend the ethical values of some observers of the market , and it is not a simple matter , on strictly scientific terms , to evaluate the effect of this kind of activity . |
| 18 | While in some cases this may merely reflect the larger growth fraction found in tumours compared with normal mucosa , genuine over expression does seem to occur in a proportion of cases . |
| 19 | Every border is in some sense arbitrary , but the international community must rigorously enforce the golden rule that no border can be changed by unilateral resort to force . |
| 20 | The relegation of less frequently used books to remote storage should eventually increase the overall relevance of the stock to users ' needs and therefore lead to a more efficient use of resources ( assuming that books which replace the neglected material issue more frequently ) . |
| 21 | In order to pass the project students must successfully complete the written report and the verbal presentation and gain a mark of 50% overall . |
| 22 | The collector must obviously have the Revised Version of 1881–95 , and some other notable attempts ( not , in everyone 's view , attended with much success ) to improve on the Authorised Version . |
| 23 | In outlining the strategies potentially available to a translator , I am therefore not suggesting that translators should necessarily follow the thematic organization of every clause in the source text . |
| 24 | So when we are thinking about helping bereaved people , instead of turning to emotional issues straightaway , we should perhaps consider the practical issues that the bereaved person is facing . |
| 25 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 26 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 27 | Iran , which had long contended that Gulf security should only involve the littoral states , greeted the declaration with great suspicion . |
| 28 | Whatever was meant to be payable at all , under this agreement , was clearly to be payable by half-yearly instalments of £150 each ; any other construction must necessarily make the conditional promise nugatory . |
| 29 | IT 'S ONE of the ancient myths of conservatories that they must necessarily trap the maximum amount of sunlight . |
| 30 | For the moment we should merely note the high level of dissatisfaction which the general marriage and divorce figures imply . |