Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other more ‘ enlightened ’ strategies are possible , and may in the long run prove more profitable . |
| 2 | To identify English as peculiarly problematical should not weaken the general defence of humane values in education , and may in the longer run help to strengthen them . |
| 3 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 4 | It will require constant monitoring of the technological situation and may in the longer term necessitate several changes of format to keep pace with changes in storage devices and technique . |
| 5 | All agencies of mass culture , i.e. the press , the radio , the television and the cinema , stand in this dialectical relation to the individual and must in the last resort concern themselves with value judgements . |
| 6 | The king 's " boys " were trained for war , and could in the last resort be used as a sort of flying squad to coerce a recalcitrant local potens on his home-ground . |
| 7 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |