Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As I have already indicated , the critical question we must ask is how we may design selection procedures which encourage sensible teaching and learning .
2 To be sure , designers on one side may pirate good ideas , may imitate design features , from the other side .
3 The limits within which committees may modify government proposals are fixed by the major parties .
4 Even if short-term exchange rate variation is induced by asset considerations , current account forces may affect exchange rates through several channels .
5 A procedure on the other hand , is specifically intended to carry out a number of actions , some of which may affect program variables , but it does not directly return a result .
6 The cost per annum , which will be borne by the purchaser of the completed property , may well exceed £500 — which may affect sale prices and hence the land value .
7 They may lower interest rates , which increases the latent demand for credit .
8 ( p. 140 ) Burke estimated that " the people " , by which he meant those who ought to enjoy voting rights , comprised about 400,000 people in England and Scotland .
9 Discussing how practitioners can not only be involved in research , but may conduct research studies themselves , with many potential pay-offs for workers , managers , agencies and the field , the writers suggest : The importance of the integral relationship between research and practice was also the subject of discussion by Lord Rothschild , head of the Central Policy Review Staff whose paper ‘ The organisation and management of Government research and development ’ ( 1971 ) did much to lay the foundations of the structure of research in the public sector .
10 Users of software should confirm that they may make back-up copies of any programs they have acquired .
11 Members may make court bookings up to seven days in advance ( 14 days for Squash Club members ) .
12 Members may make court bookings up to seven days in advance ( 14 days for Squash Club members ) .
13 A scheme may make underwriting costs ( particularly in relation to a cash underwritten alternative ) prohibitively expensive .
14 In either event , the business may make material gains from an invention which could have been patented .
15 The government claimed on Sept. 7 to have thwarted another armed conspiracy by Moslem fundamentalists of the Nahda movement [ for May coup plot allegations see pp. 38215 ; 38363 ] .
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17 I shall answer it as best I can , although I am afraid that I may burden Opposition Members with an answer that they have heard before .
18 Again , in 72 per cent of cases non-councillors attend group meetings and in 11 per cent these may include council employees who are also party members .
19 This section may include specialist magazines published in the EEC or in any country with which your organisation deals .
20 These findings therefore suggest that bile salts may play a role in the mediation of the ‘ ileal brake ’ mechanism and that the ‘ ileal brake ’ may be mediated by several factors which may include bile salts and regulatory peptides such as PYY .
21 However , in a true multimedia database the non-text elements may include can photographs , diagrams , motion video , spreadsheets , program code , and digitised sound .
22 Indeed , the ice sheet 's frozen cargo may include meteorite specimens derived not only from the fragmentation of asteroids and possibly of comets but also from the Moon and Mars .
23 These may include night sweats , swollen glands , weight loss or a persistent cough .
24 Other witnesses — depending on the subject of the inquiry — may include consumer bodies , industry , professional associations , academic experts , foreign embassies in London .
25 These may include garden escapes , such as lupins ( Lupinus nootkatensis ) .
26 These may include infill sites or sites with low density development , which are suitable for redevelopment .
27 The target assets may include business premises and reversionary interests in leased property .
28 This may include Group Awards which are recognised for employment purposes or for progression to Higher Education .
29 Recommendations may include safety factors in practical areas , for instance , home economics or chemistry , and suggested alternative activities in cases where sight loss is so severe that the general activity is inappropriate , for example , judo or weight lifting instead of football .
30 The manipulations performed may include arithmetic operations on some of these character strings , but we will probably wish to do them directly on the decimal digits , rather than convert to and from binary for each arithmetic operation .
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