Example sentences of "[modal v] readily " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pre-exposure endows a stimulus with inhibitory properties then such a stimulus should readily come to serve as a CS- since the inhibition already acquired should give a head start . |
| 2 | They remained in the atmosphere for 5–20 days before settling out or being washed out by precipitation ( soot particles attract water and so should readily form droplets ) . |
| 3 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 4 | Street autonomy might readily be restricted by the patrolling constable . |
| 5 | There was no intention to be insulting — quite the reverse — but it might readily be inferred that the defendant must have realised and did realise that his homosexual overtures might not be welcomed by the person at whom he was directing them . |
| 6 | Mere drunkenness will not of itself amount to disorderliness , although it might readily give rise to disorderly conduct . |
| 7 | The front runner has long seemed to be head injury , in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state . |
| 8 | ( f ) Indemnity Whilst it might readily be implied that where one partner 's breach of some provision in the partnership agreement leads to liability attaching to his co-partners the latter should have the right to an indemnity from their colleague , the better practice is to make that right express ( Clause 16.02 ) in the partnership agreement . |
| 9 | This may be a little exaggerated , but it makes the point quite nicely that the commodity position of British trade recovered strikingly well after 1945 — essential imports could readily be paid for by exports plus the American loan remarkably quickly after the war 's end . |
| 10 | These examples could readily be multiplied . |
| 11 | Whereas in Northamptonshire the tutor-organiser saw himself as a professional liaising with other professionals in areas where voluntary participation was barely appropriate , his colleague in Essex was apparently expected to spend a lot of time in routine organising work which voluntary members could readily take over when she eventually resigned . |
| 12 | Greenpeace and others also publicized what they saw as the insanity of dumping radioactive material on the sea-bed where it could readily enter the human food chain through fish or other marine organisms . |
| 13 | The same argument could readily be made for restaurants , but there is a difference . |
| 14 | Such an addition could readily cause ( and explain ) big changes in the biological properties of the alkylated compound . |
| 15 | The morning engagements Thrush Green could readily understand , for a man living alone could not be expected to polish and clean , to cook and scrub , and to wash and iron for himself ; though , as Ella pointed out , plenty of women lived alone and did all that with one hand tied behind them , and often went out to work as well into the bargain , and no one considered it remarkable . |
| 16 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered that multiple interviews ‘ could readily have been arranged without inconvenience or dislocation to the company ’ and that there was insufficient evidence that the need for secrecy precluded consultation . |
| 17 | If mink escaped they could readily establish themselves in the wild , with serious implications for the indigenous wildlife : particularly at risk would be large colonies of ground-nesting seabirds , such as terns , puffins and black guillemots . |
| 18 | London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet . |
| 19 | New strings like this , in a highly salient context , could readily be understood as new messages , of a new level of complexity , by an audience who already grasped the components from their isolated usages in the past . |
| 20 | Saddam Hussein 's invasion was the clearest breach of the international rules imaginable ; his expansionist intentions and despotic nature were in no doubt ; western oil supplies were endangered and a consensus could readily be mustered against the invaders . |
| 21 | The major exceptions were managers from the south with directorships or financial expertise , who could readily find more lucrative ( and to many of them more satisfying ) employment in the private sector . |
| 22 | Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile , but not adult , male mortality were large . |
| 23 | This is no new thought and many theorists , although moving from quite different assumptions , could readily give assent . |
| 24 | This uncertainty makes it particularly interesting to know whether intentionally childless women are different in personality or attitudes from those who wish to have children , and whether these attitudes could readily become more widespread . |
| 25 | He believed that the waters of self-expression were dangerous arid decidedly murky and that children could readily be influenced by chance currents and flounder ! |
| 26 | Examples of this kind could readily be multiplied , but it does not follow that the different methods espoused are really all that different in their fundamental orientations . |
| 27 | Although the addition of gold softens tumbaga axes , their working edges could readily be toughened by hammering . |
| 28 | In the New World the working of silver , like that of gold and copper , seems to have begun in Peru where native silver could readily be collected for melting . |
| 29 | Pure platinum could readily be shaped by hammering , the technique most commonly found on prehistoric nose-rings from Colombia , but its high melting point ( 1775C ) put casting the pure metal beyond the reach of early smiths . |
| 30 | This is another case in which the Woolwich principle could readily have been applied in favour of the plaintiff had it existed . |