Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indexing may be conducted manually or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer . |
| 2 | However , in some cases it can be fatal , or may lead to permanent handicap such as deafness or brain damage . |
| 3 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |
| 4 | Some patients may not have friends or relatives able to give them support at home , or may live in unsuitable accommodation . |
| 5 | Silica may be derived from natural sources or may come from water-treatment chemicals or detergent mixtures . |
| 6 | FENDER Stratocaster , 1969 , refinished red , rosewood neck , no trem , £550 or may swap for good acoustic . |
| 7 | This information may confirm existing candidates ( excitatory connections ) , or may conflict with existing candidates ( inhibitory connections ) . |
| 8 | Otherwise there is a danger that dissonance may be out of place , or be excessive for the context , or may occur at unexpected moments in a different harmonic mood . |
| 9 | Manners change , and the verdict must ultimately rest on the jury 's sense of what their own community would or should tolerate on environmental grounds at a particular moment in social history . |
| 10 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 11 | No hard and fast rules governed the setting up and running of the joint authorities , which could simply go for post-sharing and joint-buying or could opt for combined contracting . |
| 12 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 13 | Such orbits will either be symmetric ( i.e. be their own image under the symmetry ) or will occur in symmetric pairs , each of which is taken to the other by the symmetry . |
| 14 | A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount . |
| 15 | These can be deposited on textiles as the hydroxides or can combine with fatty acids to give metal soaps , which cause staining that is difficult to remove . |
| 16 | The default set of reference resolution rules in CLE-1 follows Hobbs ' pattern , but this set can easily be respecified to reflect the ordering argued for below ( or , indeed , to deal with the special circumstances that may arise in particular applications ) . |
| 17 | To contribute to the development of richer economic theories that take simultaneous account of a number of issues that may arise in particular contexts . |
| 18 | Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force . |
| 19 | Non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) are associated with gastric mucosal injury that may result in peptic ulceration , upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage , and perforation . |
| 20 | Institutional fund managers , including those responsible for venture funds , are increasingly pressurised to perform against their competition , and this has resulted in more regular reports on funds , greater investment in buy-outs with fast exits and therefore short-term profits , and performance targets for businesses that may lead to short-term objectives . |
| 21 | Before redefining the upper limit of normal for the incidence of non-peristaltic deglutitive pressure waves , it seems appropriate to point out some fundamental shortcomings in the technique of prolonged recording that may lead to erroneous conclusions . |
| 22 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 23 | the right to have needs and wants that may differ from other people 's |
| 24 | Meanwhile , universities and equivalent institutions are becoming increasingly autonomous , working closely with the private sector , or even generating spin-off companies that may develop into important sectors in their own right , as with biotechnology . |
| 25 | responses of the adult human being are first generated , perfect symmetry only occurs in the unusual relationship that may develop between identical twins . |
| 26 | Because there is no overall relationship between risk ratings and recognition performance it is necessary to consider the effects that may operate within individual junctions . |
| 27 | Abnormalities that may occur in poorly or newly diagnosed diabetes are shown in Table 4.2 ; these include increased VLDL and LDL levels in all types of diabetes as already mentioned , but with good diabetic control both these abnormalities may completely resolve ( Nikkila & Hormila , 1978 ; Lisch & Sailer , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | This sectoral approach makes it possible to take into account the redistribution of IT production activities between firms that may cut across existing industrial categories ( eg between manufacture and scientific services ) and its human resource implications . |
| 29 | The region is an important tier in allocating resources for health care but regional authorities have to rely on coarse-grained information such as death rates to decide the level of funding that should go to particular districts and services . |
| 30 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |