Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms . |
| 2 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 3 | While it is not right that either partner should always have to give way to the other , each may have to concede at times , for both their sakes and for the well-being of their marriage . |
| 4 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |
| 5 | It will also face the fact that those who lose least may have to compensate those who lose most , if free riding is to be checked . |
| 6 | Brezhnev 's neutralisation scheme for the Gulf in 1980 may have had an additional , more specific objective . |
| 7 | Where we are acting as independent valuers , MAS may resist releasing a completed valuation report before physically receiving the agreed payment for the report . |
| 8 | The services that MAS may provide include : |
| 9 | Where the engagement involves acting for a client in an acquisition search , steps should be taken to ensure that the client is a serious acquirer with specific acquisition criteria ( which MAS may help to develop and refine ) and that there is a reasonable likelihood that the firm can discover potential acquisition candidates . |
| 10 | Today , for example , in Unilever , employees over the age of fifty may choose to work progressively less with the firm and more with the community until in their last year before retirement they work only one day a week with the firm . |
| 11 | It is one of the tasks of the inquiry by the West Yorkshire Police , supervised by the authority , to discover how many of the 754 arrests by the squad since January 1986 may have resulted in convictions from fabricated confessions . |
| 12 | That may mean taking resources away from other services . |
| 13 | That may mean doing some assembly work , such as wiring instruments into a dashboard . |
| 14 | And that may mean letting go , certainly in the psychological sense . ’ |
| 15 | To achieve a lasting weight loss , you are going to need to set aside time for preparation and consumption of food , and that may mean altering your lifestyle . |
| 16 | That may involve shipping it across borders , to countries where controls are more relaxed , which is why efforts to control international movements of waste have increased in step with the tightening of disposal standards . |
| 17 | That may begin to teach you your proper place . ’ |
| 18 | That may have ruined the image a bit , after all , not even Prior , Keen , Baldwin could have had that many motorbike-riding clients . |
| 19 | The reason why trade has risen , one reason is because , erm , transport costs have declined in real terms and secondly w , why can you think of anything else that may have increased trade in manufac manufactured goods ? |
| 20 | That may have contributed , yes , yes . |
| 21 | Now anything else that may have accounted for the erm , decline of agricultural trade , and the increase in manufacturing trade ? |
| 22 | In the course of writing this , we have realised that it would be helpful to ask Mbuna keepers ( past and present ) to let us have details of any females they have owned , that may have behaved in this way . |
| 23 | That may have worked in different circumstances in a different decade , but in 1992 the people of this country look for something better . |
| 24 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 25 | That may seem to trivialise the intentions of the working party which is now sifting through the comments that have already been submitted to it ( and , although the deadline passed on 30 April , it is still interested in receiving any others sent in as soon as possible ) . |
| 26 | We 're keen to trace him because he might be able to tell us something like a piece of a jigsaw really that may help to put the case together |
| 27 | 650–60 may have left Conall Crandomna , Domnall Brecc 's brother , joint king of Dál Riata , anxious to preserve good relations with Oswiu , who was , after all , his brother 's protégé . |
| 28 | The Whitney retrospective may have helped sell three good Basquiats at Sotheby 's , though two difficult , insubstantial pieces failed at Christie 's . |
| 29 | In Read v. Lyons , Lord Porter commented that ‘ non-natural user seems to be a question of fact … and in deciding this question I think that all the circumstances of time and practice of mankind must be taken into consideration so that what may be regarded as dangerous or non-natural may vary according to the circumstances . ’ |
| 30 | It was understandable that the government of each should have tried to reappraise its policies and priorities , and been anxious to explore its range of options . |