Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] in [noun] " 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 | Client will not require KPMG to undertake , nor will Client take any action which could or might result in KPMG being in breach thereof . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I seek your guidance on a matter that may arise in future . |
| 12 | Something that may arise in future is not a matter for me now . |
| 13 | I am not concerned with any issue of limitation that may exist in relation to this claim . |
| 14 | There is a great deal of interest at present in developing hashing algorithms for files that may vary in size . |
| 15 | Uncertain , too , is the broad political picture that may emerge in Europe under the influence of the radical changes now in progress . |
| 16 | The company , a wholly-owned $3 million Virginia subsidiary of publicly held Convergent Solutions Inc , describes its NuTcracker technology as the opposite of Wind/U , the Bristol Technology Windows-on-Unix scheme that may feature in Microsoft 's moves to counter WABI . |
| 17 | Health danger that may lurk in lakes |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Pray heaven she might find the courage to endure the horrors that must lie in store ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Zambia responded in the only way possible , presenting hir body like a softly-glowing flower that could enfold in perfume and smooth petalflesh . |
| 27 | ‘ A fire that could burn in water , would you not say ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The old senior-secondary and junior-secondary divide will be re-established in Scotland , like the old grammar-secondary modern divide that used to exist in England and Wales . |
| 30 | Morals began to lose their meaning and people said anything that came into their heads , the sort of thing that used to appear in books as a row of stars or be written down on slips of paper and handed to judges in court . |