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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 !
5 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 .
6 In particular the on- loan flag serves as a lock to ensure that only one lexicographer may modify the contents of an entry at any given time .
7 Basically they 're just telling the Party to consider the demands of the peasants and do what the peasants want but then er then in the first paragraph they say that you ought to erm they ought to support the masses in their erm implementation of agrarian reform , you have to give them planned guidance so it 's almost that how they 're telling the cadres to go out there and almost manipulate the peasants demands into more of a communist one .
8 D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK .
9 Legal questions rarely exist in the abstract and the opinion of the Court may affect the rights and duties of various international actors .
10 The judge also has the power , where the reporting of one case may affect the interests of justice in a subsequent case , to postpone the reporting of the earlier case .
11 This may sharply affect the price of this resource and , as a further result , may affect the prices of other resources and products , as well as the entire pattern of production .
12 These cytokines may affect the functions of immunocompetent cells to induce colonic injury or induce the lysis of colonic epithelial cells directly .
13 Thus , the linking procedure adopted may affect the conclusions reached .
14 The barrier to this is not so much their intellectual capability , but the social stigma of their handicap , which may affect the attitudes of teachers and the parents of other children .
15 An increased number of children may not lead to more dwellings being required , but rather to the same number of larger homes ; or may affect the types of homes needed , such as those with amenities like gardens : conversely , an ageing population , which tends to consist of smaller household sizes , may need a larger number of dwellings , perhaps smaller and with special requirements such as ease of access .
16 Some are rather heavy and contain a silicone ingredient which could cause problems — a build-up of silicone on the hair may affect the results of perms , tints , bleaches etc .
17 It has been found that regular use of some 2 in 1 's can cause ingredients to build up on the hair shaft which may affect the results of a perm or colour .
18 By this proposal , the greater bilateralisation in females may facilitate the needs of females in motherhood including the necessary communication skills , whereas restricted separation of function is necessary to ensure a high level of visuo-spatial skills in males required , for example , in hunting .
19 provide clear guidelines to the workplace supervisor in order that the student may experience the conditions necessary to overtake the requirements for the successful completion of the module .
20 Every farmer knows that engineers may lower the levels of rivers for all they are worth , but that , without a follow-up operation of underdrainage in each saturated field , the real rewards for agriculture will never be harvested .
21 It then runs into problems of political opposition of local people , enforced differentiation between winners and losers in the countryside , and may expose the inadequacies of the agricultural extension staff , agricultural engineers , support staff and the like .
22 Detectorists who are not members of your club may think the parks are open to everyone with a detector if they see you there .
23 Some people may think the examples of usable answers too trivial for a family with such great problems .
24 Let's throw the keys away
25 The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess .
26 In an extreme case an authority might decide for economic , political or cultural reasons that it did not wish to make coinage , which may explain the periods mentioned above when various states abandoned coinage .
27 In addition , these correlations between individual lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and platelet-specific proteins may explain the changes of platelet-specific proteins with instigation of diabetic therapy ( Preston et al , 1978 ) , as lipid levels would be expected to be elevated in uncontrolled diabetes and to fall with improved control ( Paisey et al , 1978 ; Simpson et al , 1979 ) .
28 This , together with feedback inhibition of primary bile acid synthesis , resulting from increased enterohepatic cycling of secondary bile acids , may explain the differences seen .
29 ( This may explain the results of White ( 1971 ) who presented lines only in horizontal , vertical and diagonal orientations and found a RVF superiority . )
30 Both formulae and legislation may influence the conditions within which members of the professional community seek to enhance the effectiveness of their schools .
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