Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single entrepreneurs just starting up , with little capital , may prepare their own advertising literature and letterheads ; do all their own bookkeeping ; organise their own promotion campaigns ; carry out their own market research on new products ; find out for themselves about new customers and , when the business begins to grow , handle their recruiting problems by advertising or asking around . |
| 2 | We may lend you any amount from £500 to £10,000 ( in units of £10 ) and , in certain circumstances , may advance 100% of the cost , although we normally expect you to make some contribution from your savings . |
| 3 | Alternatively they may devise their own format for indicating to students and to moderators the way in which the student has achieved marks for each individual assignment . |
| 4 | He may prefer his own assessment of the patient 's interests , and ignore that of the parent or guardian . |
| 5 | Alternatively , as adults they may make their own decision to live an ordinary life and not pursue brilliance . |
| 6 | All honours courses taught in the department attempt a fuller treatment of periods , topics , and authors , from which students may make their own choice of areas of special study . |
| 7 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 8 | Each half of the brain may make its own contribution towards different aspects of musical expression or appreciation . |
| 9 | A worker may be required to live in tied accommodation as a condition of employment or he may make his own decision to do so . |
| 10 | Does he further agree that the best security for the people of Northern Ireland is in talks and an agreement between political leaders and parties within Northern Ireland so that they may govern their own Province in the interests of all its people ? |
| 11 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 12 | I know I 'm in my mid thirties and ought to know my own mind by now , but I 'm scared of the commitment . |
| 13 | You may recognise your own approach to essay writing in the table showing three approaches to the problem . |
| 14 | This culture may include its own language , ways of communicating , and determines the way in which information is perceived and valued . |
| 15 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 16 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 17 | It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated . |
| 18 | Prospective purchasers should conduct their own investigation and analysis of the Company and of the information contained in this Document and are advised to seek their own professional advice on the legal , financial and taxation consequences of acquiring shares in the Company . |
| 19 | While each school must evolve its own way of working , it is clear that the traditional two-tier model has limited capacity to cope with change on the scale now being experienced . |
| 20 | Users of league tables should compare their own setting with that for the source studies included . |
| 21 | Although the US Strategic Air Command 's nuclear capability was already formidable , Britain should make her own contribution to the Western nuclear deterrent by giving absolute priority to the rapid build-up of the V Force in order to maintain British influence in the Atlantic Alliance , and as a hedge against isolationist tendencies in the United States . |
| 22 | However the custody order expressly forbade Miss T. being brought up as a Jehovah 's Witness , the intention being that she should make her own decision when she was old enough to do so . |
| 23 | If Departments need additional copies of publications , they should make their own purchasing arrangements . |
| 24 | An Essex County Council spokesman said the authority was unable to provide alternative travel for pupils affected by the strike , and parents should make their own arrangements if possible . |
| 25 | If possible the therapist should make their own tape of relaxation instructions which assists in the transfer of the skills from the therapy session to the home situation . |
| 26 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 27 | If the letter then comes back through the dead letter office , the plaintiff 's solicitor should make his own application to set aside any interlocutory judgment he has signed . |
| 28 | He spoke of the need to ‘ discern the signs of the times ’ : ‘ We should make our own Jesus ’ advice that we should know how to discern ‘ the signs of the times ’ ( Matthew 16.4 ) , and we seem to see now , in the midst of so much darkness , a few hints which augur well for the fate of the Church and humanity' ( Abbott , p. 704 ) . |
| 29 | Depart London for Toronto , where you should make your own way to the Delta Chelsea Inn . |
| 30 | Here the world of the mind that I build will not be same as another man builds ; each one of us must build his own world of I and Thou . |