Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 2 | Similarly , a male may crouch like a female and perform pseudo-female behaviour , being mounted by another tom . |
| 3 | Just as an animal without previous experience may respond to a complex stimulus , so it may produce a complex set of movements in response to a stimulus . |
| 4 | On the contrary , it is possible that greater training in counselling skills may lead to a more skilfully directed and efficient interview . |
| 5 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 6 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 7 | Issues of equal opportunity may arise in a number of contexts ; for example , those of gender , race , disability and religion . |
| 8 | The induction of apoptosis by p53 following genotoxic insult may act as a defence mechanism to protect the organism from the propagation of cells that have sustained mutation . |
| 9 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 10 | As we saw in Chapter 4 , your contract may cater for a wide variety of perks , such as : |
| 11 | Moreover , simultaneous oesophageal pressure peaks may occur as a normal phenomenon when swallows are taken in rapid succession , due to the phenomenon of deglutitive inhibition . |
| 12 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 13 | Although this ‘ voluntary ’ aspect of indirect taxes may apply to a particular individual and a particular tax , it can not apply to all individuals and all taxes . |
| 14 | A detailed review of all the standard forms of building contract available is not possible here , but a brief description of the most common forms may serve as a guide . |
| 15 | Yet the weak or anomalous We forms may point to a further truth , that Shakespeare conceives of the relationship between two friends as both united and separated . |
| 16 | Polly Harvey may record for a small label called Too Pure , but she has managed to become the rising star of the indie world by tackling issues of sexuality head on . |
| 17 | Failure to understand the distinction between PPD skin test reactivity and active TB may serve as a further disincentive to PPD testing . |
| 18 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 19 | This consideration of the events and operations may lead to a tuning of the model , an adjustment of the entitles and the attributes . |
| 20 | Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group . |
| 21 | A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations . |
| 22 | Hunt suggests that conflict of this kind may act in a group of individuals to : |
| 23 | Their stubbornness may lead to a heightened sense of mischievousness and humour untainted by cruelty or spite . |
| 24 | Then the algorithm may opt for a particular child C on the basis of the gradient of f at N , but the gradient is misleading and in fact f ( C ) is much less then f(N) . |
| 25 | In brief , the Cartesian reduction may rest on a set of difficulties which are linguistically generated by treating language as a less complicated thing than it in fact is . |
| 26 | However , yarns vary and the finer light-coloured double-knit yarns may knit on a standard gauge machine , but darker yarns may not . |
| 27 | Such disagreements may stem from a variety of causes : ideological perspectives , ward and area considerations , seniority ( old v. young ) , status ( chairmen/spokesmen v. backbenchers ) , committee and pressure-group loyalties , or simply politicking or ‘ bloody mindedness ’ . |
| 28 | The information disclosed in published accounts may relate to a single company or to a group of companies under a holding company . |
| 29 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 30 | The most interesting developments in the law relating to qualified privilege may come as a result of Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights ( see p3 ) . |