Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal environment ministry opposes such developments , but can not intervene without the support of the state government , and fears that the park may effectively cease to exist . |
| 2 | If one cat is always given a completely monotonous ( but nutritionally complete ) diet , day in and day out , always the same brand of canned cat food , it may eventually refuse to touch any other , new kind of food , no matter how tasty . |
| 3 | Both may eventually wish to remarry , but the Queen has always insisted on a cooling-off period of at least two years before the start of divorce proceedings . |
| 4 | As concern for the environment grows , this area may eventually come to rival the Darwinian revolution as a subject for scholarly analysis . |
| 5 | We may eventually come to think in terms of a Minoan Universal Spirit , which manifested itself in many different transformations , each with a different name , character , and function , and which yet somehow was regarded as a single deity . |
| 6 | Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) . |
| 7 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 8 | Since neither headquarters nor division executives discuss or resolve either the attributions or the frustrations , both may eventually begin to distance themselves from each other . |
| 9 | The scheme has been approved by UK energy secretary , John Wakeham , who has indicated that it may eventually become incorporated into building regulations for new houses . |
| 10 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 11 | Right let's let's all get lined get lined up again ready to move . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman may personally have achieved a rather soft landing , but sadly that was not true for the economy of which he was in charge . |
| 13 | Although some companies may only choose to disclose the ‘ good ’ information , a requirement to disclose significant changes in key balance sheet figures may lead to expected industry disclosure norms — it would be difficult for any company not to follow an accepted industry reporting practice . |
| 14 | Changes to the data may only involve changing the relevant parts of the database , and the many programs that may use the data will not need to be changed . |
| 15 | If pushed too far , there is a danger that characterising people 's experiences in terms of multiple jeopardies may only serve to marginalise their experiences even further and divert attention from common concerns and issues . |
| 16 | This may only serve to aggravate matters further and undermine your role as a neutral . |
| 17 | So you may only want to buy what you think you 're likely to need . |
| 18 | In this situation , you may only need to wave your tape under the right A&R person 's nose to be offered a recording contract . |
| 19 | Commonly the prescriber will be fairly familiar with the remedies and will ‘ just know ’ the remedy as the case is taken or may only need to look up one or two symptoms to confirm the remedy . |
| 20 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 21 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 22 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 23 | Also , it can not be ignored that Marco did n't have many options , since Eddie was about to kill him , and Marco 's actions were in self-defence : I think that Marco may only have beaten Eddie up had he not drawn the knife , but not killed him . |
| 24 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 25 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 26 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 27 | What you have to remember if tempted to copy any ‘ late-hit ’ pose , is that the professional will move his clubhead through almost half a circle while his hands may only have moved about 18 inches from the right to left thigh , and then only because he has already got the clubhead moving fast . |
| 28 | Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising . |
| 29 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 30 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |