Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This link may give the APU a more direct backwash effect on the curriculum than the other three mechanisms above . |
| 3 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 4 | Such an experience may encourage the doctor in question to attend a course in homoeopathy to see if it deserves further study . |
| 5 | Conjugation may involve the transfer of anything from about 30 to over 100 genes . |
| 6 | But the scattering of damage may mean the vision is fragmented . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And environmental tidiness may cost the Pentagon more than had been planned . |
| 11 | Further understanding of the processes and growth factors involved in gastric epithelial development in the fetus may allow the exact mechanisms to be elucidated . |
| 12 | Latham ( who went on to prepare the Revised Medieval Latin Word List for the British Academy ) wrote in the Amateur Historian Vol.1 , No.11 , p.332 : ‘ The student who strays from the beaten track in the realm of Medieval Latin may expect the trials and joys of the pioneer . |
| 13 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 14 | If the DC is not yet active , the current DC user may pass the DC to you using option 2.5.0 — Change Ownership of DC . |
| 15 | Higher cuffs generally give more support in rough terrain , but the more experienced user may prefer the greater mobility offered by lower cuff designs . |
| 16 | After the DC is agreed , a user may attach the DC to a package . |
| 17 | PASSWORD the current user may access the package by supplying the password . |
| 18 | SPEC ACC the current user may access the package module , due to having a special access link set up . |
| 19 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
| 20 | Those who have been exposed to the confirmatory techniques of linear regression may recognize the analogous measures . |
| 21 | Although the consultant or GP may prescribe the treatment , community nurses make most treatment decisions — yet training for nurses in this area has been haphazard . |
| 22 | And if it is possible to be poor but happy , sexual difficulty may tip the balance towards misery , so that financial dissatisfaction is magnified . |
| 23 | There are significant genetic and behaviourial differences between wild and farmed salmon , and the Trust fears that the farmed variety may replace the native fish . |
| 24 | But some groups that are short of money may want the job for financial reasons . |
| 25 | Though money may follow the patient , postoperative morbidity tends to stay at home . |
| 26 | Very low-grade disseminated copper mineralisation may reflect the eroded deep levels of a copper porphyry system . |
| 27 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 28 | Once a satisfactory entry point has been identified in an index , the instructions or guidelines in the index may help the searcher in improving retrieval . |
| 29 | Next month 's High Court judgement may settle the issue one way or the other . |
| 30 | In such cases , the official acting on behalf of the contestant may approach the arbitrator directly . |