Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may have stronger bones to start with or there may be a protective effect from exercise or other factors . |
| 2 | This may involve further training or the gaining of occupational experience in new areas . |
| 3 | This may provide calmer sailing but is it worth the trouble ? |
| 4 | Neither the Committee nor the sponsors of the subsequent legislation suggested that this should imply greater tolerance of , or a lessening of the stigma attached to , homosexuality . |
| 5 | And Akram admitted last night : ‘ This might start further accusations of ball-tampering but we do n't care any more . |
| 6 | Some of the association 's 128 companies , with £50 billion under management , speculated this might mean closer co-operation with the Association of Investment Trust Companies ( AITC ) . |
| 7 | The user must not switch off the computer before this option is chosen as this could affect further use of the files on disk . |
| 8 | The latter will get a stock exchange quote after it is spun off and this could trigger further price rises similar to those seen in electricity , gas and water . |
| 9 | Activists in Haringey persuaded the council to suspend their commitment to go to full committee status , because a sub-committee could have a majority of non-councillors ; this would facilitate greater participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities , particularly those who were black , disabled or unemployed . |
| 10 | This would give greater predictability to litigants and presumably effect a reduction in the amount of judicial time devoted to these matters . |
| 11 | It was decided that in future the proceeds should be given to some charity , clearly stated beforehand , and this would encourage greater participation . |
| 12 | This would produce safer food with greater reliability , increase consumer choice and make agriculture more environmentally friendly . |
| 13 | This would allow greater flexibility for chivvying around to fit , at that stage , an unknown quantity of text . |
| 14 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 15 | ‘ The English will have larger cannon than these merchanters carry , and could sink them before they could get within range . |
| 16 | This will generate lower transactions costs than arbitrage as it requires only one sale of shares and one purchase of futures — assuming that the investor would have closed out his or her long position in shares at the delivery date anyway , or is content to roll over the long futures position until they would otherwise have sold their share portfolio . |
| 17 | This will prevent further breeding . |
| 18 | If there is a significant change in the pattern of flows at one point , it is quite likely that this will cause further changes in contingent flows . |
| 19 | To achieve this will require further investment of resources in academic staff and the infrastructure to support them , such as library provision , information technology , research support , and additional space , including the acquisition of further sites for development . |
| 20 | You may prefer to use a flannel to clean this area , as this will afford greater control . |
| 21 | This will allow wider generalisations to be drawn . |
| 22 | Some will charge higher rates to non-residents . |
| 23 | However , in a non-trivial system it will often happen that one reading of a sentence will be preferable on , say , syntactic grounds , but another will allow easier pronoun resolution . |
| 24 | 1993 will see further sharpening of priorities in the light of the Corporate Plan and the Strategic Study of the Profession . |
| 25 | They are generally fed whole to sheep , although this can cause older ewes to shed their incisor teeth prematurely and thus shorten their useful lives . |
| 26 | They have large administrations which they should always be looking to make more effective and in an area like education , there are surplus faces to be removed , energy to be used more efficiently and services to be contracted out if this can provide better value for local tax payers . |
| 27 | Some can develop higher order thinking in a highly constructive way — for instance pupils could be asked to compare two features that are not adjacent to each other , but are found in different parts of the building . |
| 28 | Whether the 90s will bear further fruit remains to be seen . |
| 29 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |
| 30 | It is not recommended to add more oil to your pigment , as keeping your paint dry and simple will yield better results . |