Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's ruling suggests companies seeking to protect their commercial secrets may have a case under Section 10 . |
| 3 | On the appropriate authority of a senior officer , security personnel may enter a person 's home for similar purposes . |
| 4 | Eating a lot of meat , butter and dairy products may give a higher risk of breast and bowel cancer as well as other problems such as coronary heart disease . |
| 5 | OPTIONS : The White Lions may carry a magic standard . |
| 6 | Closed windows and doors help to contain smoke and flames for about 20 minutes , and as inhaled smoke can immobilise people who are attempting to escape , these vital minutes may permit a more orderly evacuation from other parts of the building , and simultaneously allow time for professional help to arrive . |
| 7 | Whether they are filtered or not , expanding dictionary definitions may provide a way of accessing semantic relations that are not accessible at the first level . |
| 8 | Some of the essays may seem a little dense but this is inevitable . |
| 9 | Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers . |
| 10 | Some projects may have a much shorter cycle . |
| 11 | Very often the period is much longer and securing the requisite number of ratifications may take a decade more , if , indeed , this is achieved at all . |
| 12 | This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes . |
| 13 | Decisions taken by other disciplines may have a costly impact over which the nurse manager is powerless to intervene ; the general manager 's control of ward clerks , the contents of contracts agreed before privatisation or the consultant surgeon 's annual leave arrangements are examples . |
| 14 | Occasionally agency interviewers may adopt a jaded and cynical approach , the result of seeing people day after day and forgetting that each one is an individual who should be assessed individually . |
| 15 | As they point out , child-rearing patterns may provide a better indicator of social class than the more conventional criteria . |
| 16 | Use of such a set of unnormalized operations may give a better indication of the accuracy of an arithmetic calculation . |
| 17 | Here the amount of uplift computed from the reflectance values may include a considerable fraction which can be attributed to removal of Carboniferous overburden in Hercynian times . |
| 18 | In the ‘ real process ’ of policy implementation , local authorities may follow a pattern of action drawing on several of the types sketched here . |
| 19 | A white-collar job , owning a home or indulging in particular leisure pursuits may cause a person to identify himself as ‘ middle class ’ ; others may consider anyone who ‘ works , to be ‘ working class ’ ; others may preserve a sense of being ‘ working class ’ because of their family background , though their own social circumstances have changed . |
| 20 | For under conditions of largely unrestricted discretion , factors such as the character , attitude , training and social background of sentencers may make a considerable difference to the way their discretion is exercised . |
| 21 | In these patients they found higher adduct levels in the duodenum than in the stomach and they suggest that pancreatic obiliary secretions may play a part in foregut carcinogenesis in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis . |
| 22 | More formally , solicitors may offer a ‘ £5 fixed fee interview . ’ |
| 23 | Courses in the humanities may encourage a personal response from the students , but do they always open up a full range of rival positions ? |
| 24 | Furthermore , supporters of conservation groups may exhibit a general lack of confidence in science and technology and a suspicion of scientific ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 25 | Clearly , whilst such groups may fulfil a valuable and useful social purpose , they could offer much more . |
| 26 | Perhaps only by attacking the dominant ideology can it be transformed since action groups may stimulate a rethinking of the situation . |
| 27 | At the same time the existence of strong groups may have a detrimental effect upon the organisation where the group puts forward its own interests at the expense of the organisation as a whole . |
| 28 | The returns may explain a family relationship , they record each person 's occupation , and at the very least they demonstrate that an ancestor was still alive at that date . |
| 29 | With one additional year 's study beyond the ACIB , Associates may obtain a BA ( Hons ) Financial Services degree . |
| 30 | In third parties , Germans may prefer a low card to a wild one . |