Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 2 | Such considerations , sometimes working together , may debar many adjectives from ever appearing postnominally ; in other instances , acceptability may be marginal enough to depend not only on these factors , but also on the particular circumstances . |
| 3 | The practising architect may design better buildings after working with the old ones . |
| 4 | They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) . |
| 5 | A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause . |
| 6 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
| 7 | ( Some patients are not convinced that practice records remain confidential , while others fear that personal revelations may affect future relationships with their doctors . ) |
| 8 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
| 9 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
| 10 | These may affect large sections of the population in predominantly the same way . |
| 11 | This guide contains information about specific medical conditions which may affect older people in residential and nursing homes and other places where they may be cared for — such as hotels and guest houses . |
| 12 | The book briefly describes the regulations relevant to setting up and running care homes ; looks at general issues to do with medical care in homes — such as relationships with general practitioners , prescribing and use of drugs , and admission to hospital ; and then summarises the implications of a range of clinical conditions which may affect older people in care homes . |
| 13 | The picture is complicated by the fact that national authorities may regard some discrimination between nationals and non-nationals as being necessary in order to ensure the protection of national interests such as the collection of taxes . |
| 14 | Unconsciously , they may regard those sort of questions as intrusive or threatening , in that the other person may not say what they wish to hear . |
| 15 | Luxury hotels may only allocate twenty per cent of their accommodation , whereas other hotels may regard this type of business as their main source of income and allocate eighty per cent or more of their accommodation and plan their services around this kind of market . |
| 16 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 17 | The functional division of policy-making responsibilities among different central government departments and agencies means that public enterprises may experience political pressures from several distinct authority sources within the state . |
| 18 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 19 | The authorities may experience considerable difficulties in controlling the money supply . |
| 20 | Fat lesbians and fat heterosexual women may experience fat oppression in different ways , but it is present for both . |
| 21 | Sometimes a person may experience several deaths in the family close together . |
| 22 | Elders from minority groups may experience particular dimensions of loss which will be further explored in the following section . |
| 23 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 24 | PERHAPS the Independent Traveller ought to carry some sort of warning : ‘ Reading this section can change your life . ’ |
| 25 | Therefore , youngsters may swallow appreciable amounts of toothpaste . |
| 26 | In fact , a pre-school child may swallow 0.3 grams to 0–4 grams of toothpaste at each brushing ( Journal of Dental Research , vol 5 p 1317 ) . |
| 27 | Whether they love it or hate it , they ought to acquire some knowledge of it . |
| 28 | Adults may remain -5 months without feeding or notably moving in their winter aggregation site . |
| 29 | Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed . |
| 30 | There may remain other discrepancies in the treatment of copyright works within the EC . |