Example sentences of "and [modal v] [verb] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Systemic endotoxaemia correlates positively with the presence and extent of intestinal ulceration and with the activity of the disease ; and may contribute to the disease activity , the development of toxic megacolon , abnormalities of liver histology and other extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 2 | Interruption denies the buyer the kind of respect he is entitled to receive and may lead to a misunderstanding of the real substance behind the objection . |
| 3 | This is deflationary and may lead to a recession . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , failures will be encountered and such failures can eventually attain a degree of seriousness that constitutes a serious crisis for the paradigm and may lead to the rejection of a paradigm and its replacement by an incompatible alternative . |
| 5 | Heavy rainfall and the leaching out of iron salts may result in the formation of iron pans and podsolised soils ; these are poorly drained and may lead to the formation of upland bogs and blanket peat . |
| 6 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 7 | That specific laminin receptors are differentially regulated in foetal , regenerating , and quiescent adult hepatocytes may not simply , therefore , be important for adhesive or structural reasons and may relate to the need for growth and development . |
| 8 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 9 | But often the information will be ambiguous and may refer to the land or individual in respect of which you are searching . |
| 10 | Settlements in south-west Scotland were reworking Anglo-Saxon bronze scrap and perhaps glass ; the fragmentary whetstone with a facing human head from Collin , Dumfriesshire , is stylistically related to the examples from Loveden Hill and Sutton Hoo and may point to the exchange of goods between the areas . |
| 11 | The inquirer may have an urgent need seeking a solution and may turn to the competition if faced with a delay . |
| 12 | Intestinal motility disturbances with prolonged intestinal transit times are well described in patients with cystic fibrosis and may predispose to the development of small bowel bacterial overgrowth , bacterial dehydroxylation and deconjugation of bile acids , decreased bile salt solubility , diminished intestinal bile acid absorption , and excessive faecal bile acid loss . |
| 13 | To survive in a rational era , the irrational institution must have a function , and must appeal to the population . |
| 14 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 15 | Furthermore , all three activities could and should work to the advantage of environmental conservation by encouraging people into new landscapes and thus heightening their environmental awareness so that they themselves become part of the environmental protection movement . |
| 16 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 17 | If ratifying the Protocol is viewed as the conferral of rights on the treaty parties under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention , those States can decide whether to accept the rights , and might object to a statement such as that made by the Soviet Union on this basis . |
| 18 | It was as if the Cornell students were capable of ignoring surface structure , and could refer to the passage 's deep structure as if it were complete . |
| 19 | It is also under the wing of the United Nations and could contribute to the reforestation of felled rainforest , so that the land is sustained . |
| 20 | To force the pace now was irresponsible , and could lead to a power vacuum . |
| 21 | However , firms must consider that moving to a new area can break ties with existing customers and suppliers and could lead to a loss of business if new links are not forged straight away . |
| 22 | The excessive reliance on a few varieties is making the countryside biologically uniform , and could lead to the proliferation of pests and diseases , according to the report . |
| 23 | Although any breach would be contempt of court , and could lead to the lifting of the Mareva injunction , the information will have been obtained and can still be put to use in another State ; and the sanctions available are much reduced where , as may often be the case , the plaintiff is not resident in the jurisdiction of the English court . |
| 24 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
| 25 | The ‘ public sector ’ had its own traditions and characteristics , and could respond to the need for vocational or professional preparation . |
| 26 | Either the lady who had been his companion the night before was leaving , in which case it would be bad manners to notice , or she intended to remain , and would return to the chamber when she was ready . |
| 27 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 28 | Speakers would take it in turn to speak , would be applauded , and would return to the auditorium to applaud more speakers , more poseurs . |
| 29 | ‘ There are those who would say it is n't in the public interest and would lead to a diminution in standards of pleading . |
| 30 | To use the word in its secondary , neutral sense would neutralise the word ‘ appropriation , ’ to which assumption is here equated , and would lead to a number of strange results . |