Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar factors may affect both corporate and personal default . |
| 2 | What is sure , however , is that prevalence rises markedly with age ( see for example Kay et al , 1970 ; Campbell et al , 1983 ; Maule et al , 1984 ) , and may affect as many as 20 per cent of people over the age of 80 . |
| 3 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 4 | Over-exposure to UV may affect very narrow etch-resist tracks which will be removed/reduced in width by etchant . |
| 5 | The different sense of ‘ the functions of crime ’ — that sometimes what is defined as crime includes activities that some may regard as useful and beneficial — relates to an issue that has long confronted socialists : what is the status of crime and criminals under capitalism ? |
| 6 | Later , he comments on this , as follows : ‘ In treating of the development of the notion of thought , we may regard as primitive the child 's conviction that it thinks with the mouth . |
| 7 | They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny , though . |
| 8 | But any individual market or island may experience somewhat higher or lower demand than average , those with lower than average demand cancelling out those with higher than average demand . |
| 9 | If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge . |
| 10 | The buttery-hatch is open from dawn to dusk for the entire week ; everyone may eat as much as he can , and take off in a basket as much as he can carry , including clothing , ‘ for a Christian gentleman of high degree was Eustace Lyle ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ You may eat as little as you please . ’ |
| 12 | I may eat too much , I know I drink too much , but I pursue justice and do the best I can . ’ |
| 13 | However , American experience also suggests that this awareness may remain rather abstract : relatively few people become able to translate differences in APR into differences in the money cost of credit . |
| 14 | Until the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread many potential applications areas may remain just that . |
| 15 | While the environmental attractions of moving out may remain as strong as ever , the financial advantage from the fact that southern prices boomed first has largely disappeared . |
| 16 | The prognosis must be guarded and the owner informed that a proportion of these animals may not recover while others may remain permanently stunted . |
| 17 | The third example is a young man who falls into the rare category of those who pose a serious threat to public safety , a threat which in some instances exists for only weeks or months , although occasionally a person may remain potentially dangerous for some years . |
| 18 | Buildings may remain structurally intact but tilt like rows of old tombstones as their foundations lose their grip . |
| 19 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 20 | When approached they may stay absolutely motionless and allow themselves to be picked up . |
| 21 | ‘ Let's stay here all night . |
| 22 | ‘ Let's stay here all day , ’ he suggested later . |
| 23 | On most gliders that will mean less than 50 knots , which you may think rather slow for a steep turn . |
| 24 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |
| 25 | Many disabled people , often on income support , may earn relatively low wages , and the consequences of a minimum wage would be a withdrawal of job opportunities which would probably affect them in particular . |
| 26 | In other cases , the Bank of England may influence very short-term rates through its operations in the discount markets . |
| 27 | The danger that , by trying to protect your future career prospects , you may throw away substantial cash sums in terms of severance payments is a real one , as the case of International Computers Ltd v Kennedy ( 1981 ) illustrates . |
| 28 | This may throw more light on the mechanism of action of the alcoholic beverages on the gastric mucosa and possibly on other organs . |
| 29 | If there are statements by the Minister or other promoter of the Bill , these may throw as much light on the ‘ mischief ’ which the Bill seeks to remedy as do the white papers , reports of official committees and Law Commission reports to which the courts already have regard for that purpose . |
| 30 | In practice , men may treat even non-kin as members of their Biraderi . |