Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] with " in BNC.

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1 A defendant to any action may wish to dispute all or part of the liability asserted by the plaintiff , or may disagree with the amount claimed whilst admitting liability , or may wish to dispute the claim and make a counterclaim against the plaintiff .
2 This information may confirm existing candidates ( excitatory connections ) , or may conflict with existing candidates ( inhibitory connections ) .
3 Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " .
4 that after to-night I might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet .
5 MacDonald said that he ‘ might be of no further use , & should resign with the whole Cabinet ’ ; the night before his interview with the King , Baldwin had gone to Neville Chamberlain 's house in Eaton Square , and ‘ hoped and prayed that he might not have to join a National Government ’ ; even after his interview with the King .
6 Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground .
7 When they are authorised , whether generally or in relation to a particular allotment , the company may resolve by special resolution that section 89(1) shall not apply to a specified allotment under that authority or shall apply with such modifications as are specified in the resolution .
8 ( 5 ) Some record offices offer in-service courses , or workshops to allow teachers to prepare their own teaching materials , or will cooperate with teachers ' groups producing resource materials .
9 There are also times when you need to find out how much your students know or can do with language .
10 These can be deposited on textiles as the hydroxides or can combine with fatty acids to give metal soaps , which cause staining that is difficult to remove .
11 Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force .
12 Professor Nikolaus Fiebiger , president of the University Erlangen in Nuremberg , has proposed an alternative that may meet with better success : to create a number of professorships that would be eliminated as older professors left the university .
13 Care must of course be taken with gases that may react with the glass , salt windows , or sealants .
14 company names that may appear with or without a hyphen ; for example Perkin Elmer , Perkin-Elmer
15 Any deletion of this provision will normally be resisted vehemently by a landlord , particularly in a shopping centre , as it will not wish to have any infringement that may interfere with its development of neighbouring property .
16 It includes the presence of other animals that may be predators or competitors for food , animals of other species that may communicate with it in finding food or raising an alarm , and individuals of its own species that interact with it in many ways , competitively , nepotistically , and in co-operation .
17 But for John Knox , ‘ so she was sold to go to France , to the end that in her youth she should drink of that liquor ( the Catholic faith ) that should remain with her all her lifetime , for a plague to this realm and for her final destruction ’ .
18 He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks .
19 They have sought to use fraud as an insight into the sociology and methodology of science , an approach that might connect with the more philosophical investigations of Robert Merton , Michael Polanyi , John Ziman and Thomas Kuhn .
20 It offers continuing education not only in the continuous sense , but also continually , in response to changing needs that might emerge with a different life-style , increasing age or acquired disabilities .
21 A nation that might disagree with its leaders at times , but will pull together for its nation 's sake .
22 At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’
23 Patients with ischaemic heart disease , epilepsy or non-hypoglycaemia related seizure disorder , uncontrolled hypertension , or unstable proliferative retinopathy , and those taking drugs that might interfere with autonomic or cognitive function or their ability to complete the study were excluded .
24 The outside surface is formed by a lacy sheet of soldiers , their legs linked together , their huge jaws agape , ready to slice into anything that might interfere with them .
25 Patients were excluded on grounds of the following criteria : age under 18 or over 70 years ; presence of hepatitis delta antibodies in serum ; antiviral or immune modulatory therapies in the preceding six months ; history or presence of decompensated liver disease ( ascites , encephalopathy , variceal haemorrhage ) ; pregnancy ; impaired immunity , including seropositivity for human immunodeficiency virus with T4 cells <400/mm ; inadequate levels of platelets ( <70×10/l ) or white blood cells ( <3×10/l ) ; recent drug or alcohol abuse ; presence of significant other disease that might interfere with the study .
26 Not a defence that could stop thousands of missiles , but one that might deal with a few terror weapons lobbed around the planet by third-world undesirables .
27 The voice that could reach with ease to the upper gallery of the Shield Theatre sounded in the Holborn drawing-room , calling attention to the silent young man who had arrived with the Professor but so far had not said a word .
28 Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it .
29 As in any software , there are bits here and there that could do with a polish , but , overall , Mainlan GTI for Windows does everything you 're likely to want in a small network environment .
30 Now there 's another element of business correspondence that could do with some attention and purpose behind it .
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