Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Corporation may at its own option repair reinstate or replace such motor car or any part thereof or its accessories or spare parts or may pay in cash the amount of the loss or damage . |
| 2 | There are no other possibilities for final consonant clusters containing and , except that the pre-initial or may occur in combination with post-final , as in ‘ squelched ’ , ‘ hinged ’ . |
| 3 | The objective in collecting this sort of information is to discover the patient 's usual routines ; what can and can not be done independently ; what previous coping mechanisms have been employed ; and what problems exist or may develop in relation to this AL . |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing which I can or should say in advance of the inquiry . ’ |
| 5 | Well we were led to believe that the concessions given to company cars would go , or would go in part in the White Paper , and we were led to believe that they would er make a decision that would say that the gas-guzzling , the higher expenditure cars would be penalized in terms of vehicle excise licence , road tax , compared to the small ones , and yet they 've gone back even from that . |
| 6 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 7 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 8 | At a special meeting of the SCS a rule change empowered the society to use 1 per cent of net profits for ‘ any contingency that may arise in connection with the business of the Society ’ including political representation . |
| 9 | I seek your guidance on a matter that may arise in future . |
| 10 | Something that may arise in future is not a matter for me now . |
| 11 | I am not concerned with any issue of limitation that may exist in relation to this claim . |
| 12 | There is a great deal of interest at present in developing hashing algorithms for files that may vary in size . |
| 13 | This paper will examine these as an indicator of some of the issues that may predominate in union attempts to deal with the complex problems of technological change at work . |
| 14 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 15 | Pray heaven she might find the courage to endure the horrors that must lie in store ! |
| 16 | Neither does the level of dirt provide harbourage or food for pests that might result in infestation nor materially affect any disinfection process subsequently applied . |
| 17 | The panel could provide a forum for both shareholders and auditors to air concerns that might arise in relation to audit appointments and corporate governance or other issues arising from the audit . |
| 18 | If we take just one example , the social and public policy team , has therefore policy responsibility for all the work , erm , from a policy point of view , er , about the legal structure that might exist in future , er , European associations that might be created , because it matches very clearly our work on charity law , domestically . |
| 19 | ( 1988 ) , and that these experiences used an that changed ( being a train of clicks that could vary in frequency ) from one trial to the next . |
| 20 | Comment in particular on the sort of problems that could arise in translation from differences in the way the notion in question is expressed in the two languages . |
| 21 | Zambia responded in the only way possible , presenting hir body like a softly-glowing flower that could enfold in perfume and smooth petalflesh . |
| 22 | ‘ A fire that could burn in water , would you not say ? ’ |
| 23 | She studied his profile in the dim light , his firm jaw and sensitive mouth , his brown eyes that could freeze in anger and burn with emotion , those incredible eyelashes ; in that moment she knew what love was , knew she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 24 | But my mother was n't the type that would lay in bed if you know what I mean . |
| 25 | MPs were reluctant to pass legislation that would result in government officials inspecting homes and there was also the widespread belief that the home was perhaps the most appropriate place for women to work . |
| 26 | Copy these sets and write in the next three numbers that would fit in place of the dots at the end of each row . |
| 27 | Thus the wording of an exclusion must be clear and unambiguous : " if a party wishes to exclude the ordinary consequences that would flow in law from the contract that he is making he must do so in clear terms " ( Scrutton LJ in Szymonowski v Beck [ 1923 ] 1 KB 457 ) . |
| 28 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 29 | So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions . |
| 30 | This was partly due to the development of improved building techniques but was also because — until , that is , the recent property crash — growing rental income and lowering yields encouraged developers and landlords to think of new offices as investments that would increase in value year on year . |