Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration .
2 Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development .
3 " ( lA ) In giving effect to subsection ( 1 ) above , no single buyer may own more than two of the subsidiaries set up for disposal " .
4 Some authorities require a restriction on the number of weeks a buyer may purchase so as to avoid the possibility of permanent use by a single owner .
5 A part may have more than one function .
6 A part may have more than one function .
7 If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s .
8 These differences are to be explained in terms of those contexts and the socially agreed constructions of how these institutions should operate rather than in terms of any supposed intrinsic qualities of writing .
9 Currently much effort is being directed at understanding the organizational processes of questioning and debate which such audits should stimulate rather than seeing the problem in terms of administrative techniques alone .
10 Action at the Community level should happen only when proper and necessary .
11 The EEC should decide soon whether to raise the prices , and help Philips sell more European players .
12 This means that rhyme monitoring should take longer than word monitoring because it involves an additional stage .
13 These voters often determine the outcome of statewide elections , and Texas politicos predict that they will do the same this time ; if not in the primary ( where the winner must get more than 50% of the vote , which is unlikely ) , then in the run-off in June .
14 Ideally , collaborative R & D programmes should continue only if progress is satisfactory from the point of view of both users and suppliers .
15 The more prestigious such as Eton , Harrow and Winchester can afford to charge annual fees in excess of £4,000 ( more than $6,000 in 1983 terms ) , whereas some less prestigious day schools may charge less than £1,000 per year .
16 Your history department or geography department may say well if we had a micro we 'd be able to do such and such and they 'll think about that in competition with other needs — textbooks or whatever _ so you 'll see departments using them , as I say , in the same way that we 'd use other sophisticated aids .
17 Often the polyps withdraw , and the polypary may shrink slightly as the animal expels water from inside the body to replace it with fresh water .
18 One of the shareholders must be based overseas and no one shareholder may own more than 50 per cent of the bank .
19 Even a single G protein may regulate more than one effector by virtue of its subunit structure and that more than one G protein , such as G i2 and G i3 , may regulate the same effector ( PLC- β2 ) by releasing common subunits , the βγ dimers .
20 But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results !
21 Private parties may not themselves originate requests , but a party 's lawyer may do so if the law of the state of origin so allows , as is the case with attorneys in several States of the U.S.A.
22 No undergraduate may stay longer than four years .
23 The same result may occur even if the tenant does not consciously reduce his profit margin .
24 First , the stable closed orbits may at some energy become self-intersecting and second , at a given energy these orbits may form more than one sequence .
25 Aston Martin Lagonda is introducing a service and restoration programme which means its cars should live longer than their owners .
26 A disabled teenager who 's being treated by a Russian physiotherapist has been told his trainer must go home because his visa has run out .
27 If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week .
28 Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply .
29 Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 .
30 Your savings must total less than £6,000 though £1 of ‘ notional income ’ is added in when working out your income level for every £250 ( or part thereof ) of savings over £3,000 .
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