Example sentences of "and [modal v] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
| 2 | Alerted by her dulcet tones , a crowd began to gather outside a downtown boutique and May generously offered a few fashion tips to the throng . |
| 3 | This , admittedly , is a hard saying , and may well stir a first inkling that there must be something fundamentally wrong with the approach which has brought us to this point . |
| 4 | Computer-based learning has had an impact , even if it is not the impact that was expected , and may well become an important foundation of the use of multimedia systems later in the 1990s . |
| 5 | However , it is plain that the speaker of English , although he performs this general task reliably thousands of times a day , has no idea whatever how he does it , and may well have a healthy scepticism about proffered accounts in terms of linguistic or other rules . |
| 6 | They include such things as stock control , critical path analysis , and organiser programs — and may well have a major role to play in mathematics learning in the future . |
| 7 | Incorrect orientation may lead to the distortion of vault form , and may also give a wrong impression as to the morphology of a particular area . |
| 8 | Inactivation of the p53 pathway will result in the survival of cells exposed to mutagens , and may thus have a pivotal role in the development of cancer . |
| 9 | The problem of consistency of measurement techniques over a long period of time will have to be faced and may not have a satisfactory solution . |
| 10 | However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase . |
| 11 | Schemes which place teachers into industry without adequate preparation or follow up usually offer little of lasting value and may even have a detrimental effect on the relationship between education and industry . |
| 12 | His opposition while in office was such that he was ousted — to run a technical publishing house — but he is still in his early fifties and may yet have a political future . |
| 13 | This effect is absent in patients with cystic fibrosis , who have impaired pancreatic HCO 3 - secretion and may possibly have a generalised defect in gastrointestinal HCO 3 - secretion . |
| 14 | Current research suggests that integrins are similarly located and may therefore provide a physical link between matrix and the cytoskeleton . |
| 15 | The existence of disability must be demonstrated and must also present a substantial handicap to the individual 's life . |
| 16 | Souness will deliver his final battle cry at the team hotel this afternoon , and must also solve a difficult goalkeeping dilemma . |
| 17 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 18 | Hence every society no matter how simple or complex must differentiate persons in terms of both prestige and esteem and must therefore possess a certain amount of institutionalised inequality ( Davis and Moore 1945 p. 243 ) . |
| 19 | An official report commissioned by Vice-President Dan Quayle and published on Dec. 11 advised that the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) should build no more space shuttles , and should instead develop a new fleet of unmanned rockets to place scientific payloads into orbit . |
| 20 | If these are present you will need a blood test from your doctor and should not start a special diet without checking with him or her first . |
| 21 | ‘ Both voters and candidates in the coming parliamentary elections in Jordan shoulder a grave responsibility and should therefore seek a true democratic rule based on the tenets of the constitution , avoiding rashness and extremism . ’ |
| 22 | Patients referred from family practitioners are likely to be younger and might well have a different incidence of disease causing anaemia . |
| 23 | A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race . |
| 24 | Mr Cossiga 's televised remarks , in which he announced that he had no intention of accepting a cabinet reshuffle and might even call an early election , caused a political storm . |
| 25 | They had only about one hundred and fifty yards to gather speed and could not achieve a full gallop in the time . |
| 26 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 27 | He disliked the exploitation , and could not suppress a colonialist guilt . |
| 28 | Your name ? ’ so fast that Creggan had to circle to keep him in sight , and could not keep a clear eye on the other one approaching from above . |
| 29 | Second , capitalism may be sustained by popular voting chiefly because workers themselves have not constituted and could not constitute an electoral majority ( przeworski , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | At breakfast I completely wrecked my egg while clumsily trying to open it — egg all over , nice and sticky — and could not cut a single soldier without upsetting the plate . |