Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their prey may range from insects , snails and lizards to rodents , birds , birds ' eggs and small mammals . |
| 2 | This may relate to transactions costs and limits on proportions of issues that can be lent . |
| 3 | There are scenes on pottery which may relate to periods of licence and mockery . |
| 4 | For the depressed person , the loss may be of a more ideal kind and may relate to aspects of himself that destroy his security of self-esteem . |
| 5 | I note you 've got a site inspection on the hockey club room but not for the eighty seven houses that may affect for generations , I E . |
| 6 | And then we may retro-fit to places like Finchley . ’ |
| 7 | Labov 's quite proper feelings of pleasure are evident to any reader of his article ; he plainly views the episode as an example of the opportunities which may arise for linguists to repay a debt to the communities they have worked with . |
| 8 | Problems may arise in terms of the hierarchy of professionals , in that the medical profession may attempt to adopt a prescriptive role towards a social service department , reluctant to accept the judgement of a different agency on priorities . |
| 9 | Confusion may arise regarding Slains , where two castles exist . |
| 10 | Make provision to deal with enquiries which may arise from members and where necessary refer exceptional enquiries to The Engineering Council in accordance with agreed procedures . |
| 11 | Effective education , experience and training can significantly reduce the handicaps which may arise from disabilities . |
| 12 | In other situations , complexities may arise from variations in the Richardson number , as defined above , from place to place . |
| 13 | The present research will consider cognitive constraints that may arise from limitations in children 's capacities for monitoring their own success at a task and thereby employ a strategic approach to its mastery . |
| 14 | At this stage it is difficult to assess whether the potential benefits to accounts users which may arise from improvements in audit judgments and financial reporting as a result of regulation can be justified against the costs , particularly at the smaller end of the market . |
| 15 | However , the studies of cats living under natural conditions have revealed that , apart from an intense early family life , the females in particular may stay in groups as adults . |
| 16 | Non-monogamy may be less possible for us , and we may stay in relationships longer than we should because we are scared of not being able to find a replacement . |
| 17 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 18 | In this chapter we suppose that b/d is sufficiently large that one may think in terms of a horizontally infinite layer , although we shall mention lower aspect ratio layers briefly and return to them in Section 24.7 . |
| 19 | In cancer , these antigens may reappear in tumours derived from epithelial cells that expressed the antigen only during fetal development , or they may disappear in tumours arising from epithelial cells that normally express the antigen . |
| 20 | The minder may interject at times , but will allow a relationship to build up between the client and the trainee . |
| 21 | We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth , but we never quarrel about God . |
| 22 | Resentments may persist between members of staff who belonged to different unions , and in particular the goodwill between headteacher and staff seems in some places to have been almost irreparably damaged . |
| 23 | The organism induces decreased acid secretion , at least in the early phase of the disease but this may persist for weeks or even months . |
| 24 | Swanage ( Dorset ) , Salcombe ( Devon ) , Fowey ( Cornwall ) and the whole of the Isles of Scilly may teem with tourists in the summer , but have managed to keep their general character intact while not being ruined by development . |
| 25 | These qualities may exist without feelings of spite or revenge , so that legal " malice " can sometimes have a wider meaning than colloquial usage suggests . |
| 26 | Some compensation may exist in sketches and preliminary drawings , where they exist , and which are easier to study on a page . |
| 27 | Discussing the implementation of partnership in validation , the Sociological Studies Board , for example , heard concern about the ‘ apparent lack of sympathy which may exist in institutions ’ internal monitoring and validation procedures to academic developments in sociology , in that the views expressed may be harsher and more inhibiting than those expressed by the Board' . |
| 28 | Yet it is now becoming well recognised that pathogens may exist in forms without cell walls and may generate ‘ slow bacterial infections ’ in which the organism will not be easily cultured . |
| 29 | The Car Safety Centres are managed by independent Motor Engineers and Assessors and the service is offered to members with the sole intention of identifying possible defects which may exist in cars , unknown to members , and thus preventing possible accidents and safeguarding members and their families from injury . |
| 30 | The Committee recommended ‘ a statutory upper limit of twenty-six days per year on the paid leave which public sector employees may grant to employees for council duties ’ ( Widdicombe 1986 : 137 ) . |