Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its practical object is to gain access to certain documents disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority ( ‘ P.C.A. ’ ) by order of this court for use in a criminal appeal , so that C.N.L. may use them in the libel action . |
| 2 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 3 | If , after filtering the clones , a probe having more than 2 ( N — 1 ) neighbours is found , it is reported as a ‘ suspect ’ one and the user may remove it from the analysis and repeat the procedure . |
| 4 | This fixation may manifest itself in adulthood in one of two extremes ; either stinginess , orderliness , and excessive cleanliness or sloppiness , lack of organisation , and impulsiveness . |
| 5 | The message here is that romantic cliches may safeguard you from a heart attack and prevent you making a fool of yourself . |
| 6 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 8 | Hence identification of antigenic determinants of IgA response may lead us towards antibody responses likely to be important in parasite clearance . |
| 9 | Under Conservative administrations the unions are persona non grata — their interests may be legislated against and their protests and strike actions ignored — whereas business interest groups may find themselves with special influence over public policy . |
| 10 | The question is rather whether the accounts ought to record it in a meaningful way . |
| 11 | Thus the basic recording chart may look something like this : |
| 12 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 13 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 14 | However , if there is a recommended set of conditions , approved by the OFT or by the court , the drafter may adopt them with some confidence that they will pass the reasonableness test . |
| 15 | The term recruitment consultants does imply ‘ high flyer ’ and this description may lead you to organisations with an interest in placing nurses in particular specialties , in management positions , or abroad . |
| 16 | An officer who was not himself thus inclined complained that his predecessor ( and friend ) had ‘ considered that the man in charge of the northern area of Masailand should place himself in an atmosphere of utter discomfort ; in short should become a wild man of the west and suffer privations of all kinds . |
| 17 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 18 | In a sense it was inevitable that Kelly should cover himself in glory . |
| 19 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 20 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 21 | ‘ Edwin must know nothing of this . |
| 22 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 23 | United 's Maurice Malpas sustained a groin injury and is doubtful for Scotland 's match against Germany on Wednesday but Duncan Ferguson should make it despite a thigh knock . |
| 24 | The draftsman should , nevertheless , be aware of some of the practical problems that arise in connection with the choice of tenancy to be granted and in appropriate cases should draw them to the attention of his client . |
| 25 | The contrast between these two cases should warn us against generalising propositions which make either fluidity and mobility of the working class , or tradition and community within particular branches , into uniquely favourable conditions for socialist organisation ( the first is perhaps Bologna 's temptation ; the second appears to be the temptation of the work done under the auspices of the ‘ History Workshop ’ ) . |
| 26 | It should be stressed that the figures do not reflect the fact that a considerable number of respondents answered ‘ yes ’ to the principle of capping but went on to argue that institutions should receive nothing at all by way of grants ( see , for example , the response from the Legal Resources Group ) . |
| 27 | To help expatriates overcome differences in culture , their employers should issue them with briefing documents covering various points of concern . |
| 28 | The most serious offences are ‘ triable on indictment only ’ , which means that the magistrates ' courts must commit them for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 29 | Anyone who wants to make a donation should send it to The Shaun Skelhorn Fund , c/o Lloyds Bank , Shopping City , Runcorn WA7 2DW or PO Box 111 , Runcorn , Cheshire , WA7 2XU . |
| 30 | Anyone who wants to make a donation should send it to The Shaun Skelhorn Fund , c/o Lloyds Bank , Shopping City , Runcorn WA7 2DW or PO Box 111 , Runcorn , Cheshire , WA7 2XU . |