Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Histamine acting locally may enhance the proliferation of tumours arising within the stomach . |
| 3 | Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven . |
| 4 | Thus quantitative or qualitative differences in the lipid composition of the administered fat , saturated or monounsaturated v polyunsaturated oils , may modify the synthesis of eicosanoids and impair some immunomodulatory mechanisms that may influence the outcome when treating active Crohn 's disease . |
| 5 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus , in this model , even anticipated movements in aggregate demand may affect the level of output . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the theoretical sections of this Lecture , we have described how taxation may affect the development of endowments over generations , taking account of the transmission of earning capacity and the inheritance of wealth . |
| 11 | The barrier to this is not so much their intellectual capability , but the social stigma of their handicap , which may affect the attitudes of teachers and the parents of other children . |
| 12 | There has been some debate on how the form of the set of types may affect the type of outcomes sustainable as a sequential equilibrium in a reputation game , see for example Vickers ( 1986 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Features will be photocopies which may affect the quality of photographs . |
| 17 | The nature of representative politics may affect the continuity of policy . |
| 18 | This may affect the form of conflict , favouring , for example , the short , widely publicized demonstration strike . |
| 19 | Some are rather heavy and contain a silicone ingredient which could cause problems — a build-up of silicone on the hair may affect the results of perms , tints , bleaches etc . |
| 20 | Thus whether near money assets such as call money , bills and short-dated bonds count as liquid may affect the amount of credit created . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Our findings suggest that this ‘ inappropriate ’ adrenergic response may facilitate the development of tachycardiomyopathy and could be a target for therapy . |
| 23 | Although the recently announced European Air Traffic Control information system may facilitate the movement of aircraft across national boundaries , it can not create more airspace in the already crowded skies over southern England . |
| 24 | By this proposal , the greater bilateralisation in females may facilitate the needs of females in motherhood including the necessary communication skills , whereas restricted separation of function is necessary to ensure a high level of visuo-spatial skills in males required , for example , in hunting . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Every farmer knows that engineers may lower the levels of rivers for all they are worth , but that , without a follow-up operation of underdrainage in each saturated field , the real rewards for agriculture will never be harvested . |
| 27 | Staff hope offenders who take the sport seriously may adapt the discipline of weights to their lives when they finish their sentences |
| 28 | Likewise lending abroad may expose the lender to exchange rate risk , so foreign loans , in principle , command a higher interest rate than that on domestic lending . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Because increased consumption of fat results in an increase in both weight and blood pressure and has also been implicated as a risk factor for some forms of cancer , dietary fat may explain the correlation between blood pressure and cancer . |