Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | AMERICA 'S recession may have a silver lining . |
2 | Admittedly the examples all relate to men , since it is easier to imagine ways in which a male may lose the ‘ capacity ’ for intercourse but what is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander . |
3 | OPTIONS : The Sword Masters of Hoeth may carry a magic standard . |
4 | In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person . |
5 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
6 | The fact that objects may become the source of actual struggles over conflicting interests will be discussed in chapter 9 as part of the general problem of ideology . |
7 | This link may give the APU a more direct backwash effect on the curriculum than the other three mechanisms above . |
8 | The ecu link may provide a firmer anchor for inflationary expectations . |
9 | Each of the different cultures may express the roles that organisations perform . |
10 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |
11 | Such coins may bear the name of a regime or king whose dates are known . |
12 | In fact , providing Work Experience may represent a cost to employers in terms of staff supervision time and loss of productivity . |
13 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
14 | Such an experience may encourage the doctor in question to attend a course in homoeopathy to see if it deserves further study . |
15 | Experience may offset a lack of access to sophisticated and costly specialist skills . |
16 | If companies have to pay much , they may carry on as usual , and the cost of repairing the drains may exceed the revenue that charges bring . |
17 | Conjugation may involve the transfer of anything from about 30 to over 100 genes . |
18 | But the scattering of damage may mean the vision is fragmented . |
19 | He also suggests that right hemisphere dysfunction may be inherited , and perinatal brain damage may increase the likelihood of this becoming clinically apparent in later life . |
20 | Such discussions may involve an examination of textbooks and other reading assignments for readability , conceptual difficulty and relevance of content , as well as issues concerned with the presentation of the material , language modes and complexity used to explain what is required , and the use of different approaches to teacher-pupil dialogue . |
21 | Critical discussions may emphasise the drama 's popularity within English Renaissance society and examine the conditions of theatrical playing within Elizabethan and Jacobean society , but considerations of plays rarely acknowledge that many possess multiple forms . |
22 | The National Curriculum may introduce a greater degree of consistency in respect of subject content , but quality in the way such content is treated will only be achieved if the anomalies at the various levels — LEA support , school curriculum management and development , classroom provision — are attended to . |
23 | It illuminates the medieval understanding of the interior life subject to impulses whose gratification may satisfy the immediate demands of the self for ease , anger , pleasure , esteem , but which also impede the freedom of the spirit to seek that ultimate good which in reality is the only means of satisfying man 's inherent need for fulfilment . |
24 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
25 | What is true is that the absence of , say , its mother 's milk may affect the baby 's medical condition and , to this extent , it misses the milk ( although unable to be aware of the fact ) but not its mother . |
26 | You will tan more quickly but the tablets may increase the damage UVA rays do to your skin . |
27 | For example , considerations of short-term electoral advantage may dictate an interest in the nature of price and pay policy in public enterprises ( e.g. Foster 1971 : 114 ) . |
28 | And environmental tidiness may cost the Pentagon more than had been planned . |
29 | Further understanding of the processes and growth factors involved in gastric epithelial development in the fetus may allow the exact mechanisms to be elucidated . |
30 | Study skills again provides a case in point , where a secondary school introducing study skills may misread the level of sophistication of information-handling in some of its feeder primary schools , with the result that some children may find themselves ( to use Rosemary Webb 's ( 1985 ) term ) being " de-skilled " at 11 + . |