Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as an animal without previous experience may respond to a complex stimulus , so it may produce a complex set of movements in response to a stimulus . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the disruptive effects of damage may spread to other structures intimately linked to Broca 's area . |
| 3 | So , in effect , such accusations of mystical malevolence may help to ‘ blast away ’ redundant or obsolete links in the social structure of a community , thus paving the way for healthy new growth . |
| 4 | The death certificate may need to be collected from the hospital , the death must be registered , friends and relatives must be informed and the funeral arranged . |
| 5 | For example , in credit transfer a certificate may need to be supported by a portfolio of evidence , while in APL some certification may be produced to support the portfolio . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it is possible that greater training in counselling skills may lead to a more skilfully directed and efficient interview . |
| 7 | As with external assessment in the primary phase , we believe that new methods of testing pupils ' reading skills may need to be devised , building on the best of GCSE practice . |
| 8 | Old unresolved conflicts may need to be exposed rather than hidden or disguised . |
| 9 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 10 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 11 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 12 | Some roads may have to be narrowed to single-track width in order to force lorries onto the central sections which are sufficiently strong to bear their weight . |
| 13 | ( WES ) So many people now descend on the Wye Valley every summer that conservationists say some roads may have to be closed at peak times to restrict the number of visitors . |
| 14 | In some languages , the status attributive has to be marked in moderately complicated ways ; for instance , the adjective instantiating P may have to " agree with its noun " ; that is , it may have to take on affixes reflecting various features of the noun which instantiates the E in ( 1 ) , such as its number or the noun class to which it belongs . |
| 15 | Contrary to the general principles of distribution certain products may have to be restricted to named users who have special training . |
| 16 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Our concept is that although the building may need to be upgraded and restored , the inside is the most important factor . |
| 18 | It is only later that the effect of this spending becomes apparent and more money may have to be spent to reach an effect that is desired . |
| 19 | However , because no additional money has been made available to establish a central development fund to extend services in these areas , the money may have to be taken away from existing services in other areas . |
| 20 | ( 4 ) If it is proposed that the target , the offeror or any other person will make a payment to one of the target 's directors for loss of , or retirement from , office in connection with the takeover , then the payment may need to be approved by the target 's shareholders in general meeting in accordance with CA 1985 , s312 or s314 ( see para 8.1.5 below ) . |
| 21 | If the target language lacks a grammatical category which exists in the source language , the information expressed by that category may have to be ignored . |
| 22 | That some formality may continue to be required for certain controversial treatments should not be allowed to complicate the much more commonplace decisions that have to be made many times every day in acute hospitals . |
| 23 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 24 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 25 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue has announced an increase in the tax-free amount employers may pay to employees for periods of attendance on full-time educational courses ( including sandwich courses ) . |
| 27 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 28 | A threat to break a contract may amount to such ‘ economic duress . ’ |
| 29 | Any person who believes that his or her rights under the Convention have been infringed by a court ruling or an administrative act , and who has exhausted all the possibilities of redress in the British courts may complain to Strasbourg . |
| 30 | Finally , a number of other social and community reasons may contribute to out-migration . |