Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Hobbies , learning , the new role itself , more available time to spend with family and friends may effectively do this .
2 Farmed salmon have much larger appetites , and may eventually deplete traditional salmon rivers of the resources on which the wild variety depend .
3 In young male fiddler crabs the large claw is only about 2 per cent of the weight of the rest of the body , but among adults the large claw may eventually reach 70 per cent of the body weight ( above ) .
4 Both the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts excluded pensions schemes from their scope , but EEC legislation may eventually change this .
5 The guerrillas , deprived of Russian invaders to hate , may eventually grow weary of fighting their own people .
6 He suggests that teams may eventually evolve new rucking and mauling habits and learn to play the game in a different way and at a different pace .
7 The logistics network may eventually accommodate electronic data interchange ( EDI ) .
8 Researchers say the grafting of pancreatic cells may eventually free many from daily injections .
9 Apple , who started the whole ball rolling , politely reckon that they may eventually get 30 dealers who can cope with selling , installing and supporting DTP systems .
10 If you do not take these precautions , you may eventually lose some irreplaceable programs or data .
11 A persistent and well-argued case has to be answered and this may eventually have some influence on a minister .
12 Care must be taken when using these servos to avoid stalling them against the end-stops as large currents will be drawn by the servo amplifier that may eventually cause permanent damage .
13 Despite the slow non-aggresive course of gastric lymphoma , these patients behave as immunocompromised subjects who may eventually develop immunodeficiency-related secondary neoplasias .
14 An inefficient firm will face higher production costs than rival businesses and may eventually become insolvent as customers buy elsewhere .
15 Raving and thrashing about , the victim becomes gradually weaker and , if lucky , may eventually become unconscious .
16 It may eventually become apparent that the successful implementation of the 1981 Act was made impossible because in the early stages of its introduction too many teachers were frustrated at the lack of support they received .
17 While the institutions most usually approached for funding here ( The Arts Council , RTE , Commercial business ) are n't clamouring to pour money into film , both Giannaris and Gibbons feel that with persistence and imagination ( albeit in voluminous quantities ! ) the now microscopic organism may eventually become multi-cellular .
18 Further tests are under way at Baltimore , in California and at Seattle 's cancer research centre , to see if the treatment can be repeated on other patients , and may eventually include some Aids sufferers who do not have cancers .
19 Several research groups have concluded that the combined use of visual examination of grain size , stable isotopic analysis and trace element analysis may successfully distinguish all the major quarries of the Mediterranean region .
20 A similar result may be achieved if the practitioner is able to use the cash accounting scheme , although he may thereby defer any input recovery if he does not pay his suppliers promptly .
21 The reader may justifiably feel uneasy with all this .
22 we always thought that , like any other , the Opéra orchestra ought only to receive one impetus and obey one movement .
23 A co-operation agreement or joint venture infringes Article 85 if it may appreciably affect inter-state trade and its object or effect is to prevent , restrict or distort competition .
24 Ding dong the bells are clashing , let's all go Paki bashing .
25 Well let's all take one of her things she 's giving .
26 Leaders may personally benefit more than the led but all share in the spin-offs from competent leadership .
27 A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment .
28 Non-residents may only hold registered shares .
29 Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) .
30 In addition , the local authority has the power to determine the extent to which a parent may exercise his or her parental responsibility but may only exercise this power where necessary to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s33(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) ) .
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