Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 v. Kantner ( Case 38/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 825 the Court of Justice held that a plaintiff may invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of the place of performance of a contract in accordance with article 5(1) even where the existence of the contract on which the claim is based is in dispute between the parties .
2 As discussed in the previous chapter , relationships with kin will also be affected by the higher incidence of divorce and remarriage , which may weaken the support available to the old living alone , especially because , in such interactions , the notion of reciprocity over time is so important .
3 One is that it may weaken the marriage by suggesting a ‘ failure ’ on the part of the husband .
4 As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price .
5 The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect .
6 If the nurse can assist or provide hygiene measures in a sensitive manner , this may enhance the patient 's personal comfort .
7 A campaign for the effective use of current resources is not at all incompatible with a campaign for additional ones and may enhance the clarity with which the shortfall in support for teachers is expressed .
8 — which may enhance the lexicon .
9 Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications , rather than eliminate racism tout court .
10 A possible explanation is that the reduced bile flow as shown in cholesterol gall stone patients may enhance the absorption of water in the bile duct and may thus produce hepatic bile with a greater total lipid concentration .
11 As found in our experiments , inhibition of NO synthesis may enhance the contraction of the smooth muscle of the gall bladder and the tonic response to CCK-8 can be prolonged , favouring the delivery of bile .
12 Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer , especially over the southern oceans surrounding Antarctica , may enhance the greenhouse effect if more ultraviolet radiation reaches the surface to kill phytoplankton .
13 Histamine acting locally may enhance the proliferation of tumours arising within the stomach .
14 Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven .
15 But , although in its twisting and turning a line may circumscribe an area and even a volume , it is not a description or an experience of them .
16 ( b ) if accepting shareholders may be worried that the offeror 's share price may fall following the " hype " of a contested takeover battle , the issue of a convertible loan stock instead of ordinary shares may remedy the situation by offering conversion at the current market price of the offeror 's shares together with a promise of a minimum cash value at a future date with a commercial yield in the meantime ;
17 The exercise was designed to make a student stand in front of class , sing his song and force each syllable out in an elongated manner so that it had a beginning and an end ; this , Landau explained , ought to enable the student to go into neutral , physically and mentally , so that tensions could be released and what was happening inside could be heard through the voice changes .
18 The rash may take one of several forms — it may mimic a host of rare and not so rare skin conditions .
19 In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group .
20 Aches and pains of various kinds may occur , some of which may mimic the symptoms of her husband 's last illness , and her general health may deteriorate , because at first she will be so absorbed in grieving and a kind of mental ‘ searching ’ for what she has lost that she may tend to neglect her bodily needs .
21 Exceptionally , a minister may override the scrutiny reserve .
22 A minority shareholder may override the transfer provisions in a company 's Articles of Association by a successful application for an order under s459 of the Companies Act 1985 .
23 So perhaps we ought to treat the lad reet leniently .
24 But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ?
25 Given a free choice , children usually choose the apparatus they are ready for and although a three-year-old may imitate the feats of an older child with a funnel , tube and bottle , he may not gain the same satisfaction as he does from achieving something much more simple on his own .
26 So , a baby that can crawl , and lives in a house full of cats , may imitate the cats and smoodge up against its mother 's legs — a form of communication not usual with people !
27 Hands that flutter , flap or fiddle ; the nervous twitch ; repeated sniffing or dangling earrings ; the constant movement of the head , the wagging finger etc may fascinate the listener — busy with these details , he wo n't try to understand what is being said .
28 It 's thought that badgers may transmit the disease , and now new tests may be introduced to try to combat the problem .
29 ‘ I think we ought to circulate a bit , do n't you ? ’
30 The change in a , may well give rise to a change in savings behaviour ( savings being influenced by the degree of regression to the mean ) , and this may modify the conclusions .
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