Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 2 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 3 | It illuminates the medieval understanding of the interior life subject to impulses whose gratification may satisfy the immediate demands of the self for ease , anger , pleasure , esteem , but which also impede the freedom of the spirit to seek that ultimate good which in reality is the only means of satisfying man 's inherent need for fulfilment . |
| 4 | Further understanding of the processes and growth factors involved in gastric epithelial development in the fetus may allow the exact mechanisms to be elucidated . |
| 5 | Higher cuffs generally give more support in rough terrain , but the more experienced user may prefer the greater mobility offered by lower cuff designs . |
| 6 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
| 7 | Those who have been exposed to the confirmatory techniques of linear regression may recognize the analogous measures . |
| 8 | There are significant genetic and behaviourial differences between wild and farmed salmon , and the Trust fears that the farmed variety may replace the native fish . |
| 9 | Some patients may benefit from a stress management programme , while severe cases may require the multidisciplinary services of a pain clinic . |
| 10 | Very low-grade disseminated copper mineralisation may reflect the eroded deep levels of a copper porphyry system . |
| 11 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 12 | Institutions may retain the same appearance while transforming their character — a truism pertinent to both monarchy and parliament . |
| 13 | Even though cooking may destroy the bacterial cells , it is unlikely to inactivate the toxin . |
| 14 | Employers may have the same anticipations as workers about the general price level , but they are more directly concerned about the price of the products they are producing and are far better informed about that . |
| 15 | Because of the similarity of wording between s.69 and s.5 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 , it would appear that the courts may hold the same view with regard to civil evidence . |
| 16 | Harvey may refuse the usual ‘ women 's role ’ but she has taken the indie scene by storm by writing some starkly troubled sexual vignettes while sounding as if she 's profoundly at ease in her own skin . |
| 17 | Flat braid usually looks better if hand-sewn as lines of machine sewing may spoil the finished effect . |
| 18 | Aficionados may enjoy the vile sub-editing , in a masochistic way . |
| 19 | The presence of other ions may raise the resonant frequency by up to 50% . |
| 20 | On a subsequent night the luck may run the other way . |
| 21 | Parental responsibility , partnership , non-intervention , attention to the wishes of the child and the necessity for a full assessment may mitigate the perceived threat of children being separated from their families because of their lifestyle . |
| 22 | A divided assessment may have the added advantage of allowing the valuer to claim that certain areas have now become common to two occupations and should be omitted from the valuation . |
| 23 | The changes in cat-PLA2 and syn-PLA2 values may reflect the clinical state of the patients , because we found recently that the increases in the concentrations of cat-PLA2 and syn-PLA2 were associated with pulmonary and renal complications in acute pancreatitis ( Grönroos J M and Nevalainen T J. Unpublished data ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Each part may call the furthest , brother , ’ |
| 25 | If the change causes a change in the pattern of borrowing and lending , the interconnected nature of financial flows may involve the monetary sector and then changes in the money supply will occur . |
| 26 | This condition is not sufficient to guarantee that the correct answer has been found because more than one hypothesis may span the entire utterance . |
| 27 | While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk , it also renders his portrait mundane . |
| 28 | Although it may seem that the establishment of a foreign subsidiary exposes a firm to many of the risks which licensing minimises , a venture of this kind may offer the greatest potential . |
| 29 | His present may trigger the inevitable family festive fall-out usually breaking out somewhere between the Queen 's speech at three and the Christmas cake at five . |
| 30 | ASCOT racegoers should keep the champagne temporarily on ice while warming up with a Scotch and American this afternoon , when Willie Carson and Steve Cauthen may dominate the last Flat meeting of the season at the Berkshire course . |