Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
| 2 | And yet there is something about him , a crude glint or an unexpected flicker in a cave , that may well betray genius . |
| 3 | That may well assist clients in that sort of case . |
| 4 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 5 | Overall there can be no question that this is the finest Gottschalk CD of the moment , but that should not detract listeners from the other two issues as there are few overlaps . |
| 6 | That , that should surely improve turnaround times . |
| 7 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 8 | Some may still remember Christmas 1929 , when a whale washed ashore on rocks at Looe was cast back into the sea by the townsfolk . |
| 9 | Some may be docile , whereas others can be very aggressive and bossy towards all other horses , and a few may even mount mares that come into season . |
| 10 | In absolute terms this may simply represent trends in a growing economy . |
| 11 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 12 | This may also encourage teams to think more about their kicking plays . |
| 13 | As a safety-valve mechanism as well as in the effort to use the peripheral labour resources productively , liberal economists such as Vera Lutz have recommended the encouragement of emigration to areas of labour-scarcity , but this may also produce problems of integration in the long term . |
| 14 | This may also help parents to be more aware of language and communication in ordinary , everyday settings and to notice when and on what occasions a child 's language seems to be improving . |
| 15 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 16 | Furthermore , although smoking habits can be modified , this may not affect ulcer healing since the healing rate in ex-smokers was comparable with that in patients who continued to smoke . |
| 17 | This may not pose problems for the mutated creature , which may find plenty of potential partners ; they , however , will not recognise the deviant form as conspecific . |
| 18 | This may well reflect differences in case definition and the limitations inherent in their retrospective study , in which endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was not a routine investigation . |
| 19 | However , if the rent-seeking coalitions are extensive , this may well reduce wages elsewhere to the point where reservation wages are not met and unemployment and/or underemployment is commonplace . |
| 20 | P.P. , but not L.A.H. , was able to use an uncrossed pathway on the intact side ; this may possibly reflect differences in cortical binocularity between the two infants . |
| 21 | Improved forensic science standards and public sector laboratories equally available to the defence and prosecution — this may only go part way to ensuring an equality of arms between the prosecution and defence , which is essential in an adversarial system . |
| 22 | Where the capitalist state has to use force , the army or the police , then this is clearly a failure of hegemony , though where people are persuaded that the use of force is legitimate , this may actually increase hegemony . |
| 23 | This may therefore give rise to increased endogenous triglyceride synthesis and release in the form of VLDL . |
| 24 | One factor here is that we are increasing the number of referees we use outside Britain , and this may sometimes increase delay , although electronic communication is shrinking the globe fast . |
| 25 | Although the concentration and effort required to do this may sometimes produce fatigue , this is temporary and in no way signifies that sight will ‘ wear out ’ with use . |
| 26 | The British may yet have cause to renew their debt . |
| 27 | Action : Modules of type FOREIGN must not have headers with versions earlier than 2.2 . |
| 28 | This should also include information for potential readers who are not familiar with the subject matter . |
| 29 | Millions of extra shares will flood the market , but this should n't deter investors . |
| 30 | This should momentarily distract William from whatever he is doing and raise a laugh from neighbouring tables . |