Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 2 | Thus some may remain forever the audience without the power to express their point of view . |
| 3 | It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality . |
| 4 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 5 | ‘ You ought to see how the black guys ’ heads have dropped after Norton got beat , ’ said boxer Kirk Gibbons of Birmingham . |
| 6 | We ought to go down the tip later on again . |
| 7 | Let's throw out the horrible one and put the nice one on . |
| 8 | This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck . |
| 9 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 10 | This may explain why the French , on the same number of overdue days as the UK , make a profit , whereas the latter incurs a substantial loss . ’ |
| 11 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 12 | As will be discussed below , NCp7 shows cooperativity in binding to DNA , which may explain why the shorter fragments competed less efficiently for NCp7 than the longer DNA fragments . |
| 13 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 14 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 15 | This concept may explain why the inflammatory changes manifested in the clinical syndrome of ‘ pouchitis ’ are seen almost exclusively in patients who have had colectomy for inflammatory bowel disease rather than familial polyposis . |
| 16 | The cause was never known but affected soldiers all had close contact with soil — which may explain why the cavalry and officers were rarely affected . |
| 17 | Elements of the abductive sense may be instinctive , and the result of selection , others the product of training : selection may explain both the innate quality space and the flexibility which , we know , make possible the training which explains our current ( reliable ) sense of plausibility ( Quine 1969c ) . |
| 18 | Disruption of these bonds by fluoride in the formation of much stronger bonds may explain how the chemically inert fluoride ion interferes in the healthy operations of living systems . |
| 19 | We ought to include also the northern half of Buckinghamshire in this belt of planned country , for though parliamentary enclosure affected only one acre in three in the county as a whole it was largely concentrated in the plain to the north of the Chilterns . |
| 20 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 21 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 22 | When he has attracted a female , she becomes the boss at the nest and may throw out the decorations to assert her occupancy . |
| 23 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 24 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 25 | No , let's concentrate not the spectacular disasters — the dysentery and drug busts — but the everyday , inherent hellishness of the holiday perse . |
| 26 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 27 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 28 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 29 | The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful . |
| 30 | Let's snuff out the shod people and welcome the long shadows . |