Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 2 | Thus some may remain forever the audience without the power to express their point of view . |
| 3 | It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality . |
| 4 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 5 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 6 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 7 | The cause was never known but affected soldiers all had close contact with soil — which may explain why the cavalry and officers were rarely affected . |
| 8 | This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised . |
| 9 | This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck . |
| 10 | This may explain why the French , on the same number of overdue days as the UK , make a profit , whereas the latter incurs a substantial loss . ’ |
| 11 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 12 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 13 | When he has attracted a female , she becomes the boss at the nest and may throw out the decorations to assert her occupancy . |
| 14 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 15 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 16 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 17 | The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful . |
| 18 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 19 | We may consider rather the analogy of carpets being brought periodically into a shop for display and rolled out one by one on a pile . |
| 20 | Let's explore either the water said Bill . |
| 21 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 22 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 23 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 24 | It did , however , recommend the immediate closure of the two oldest of Sosnovy-Bor 's four reactors , and suggested that nearby Western states should make up the energy shortfall to enable this to take place . |
| 25 | Another letter is being sent to every club president , but suggestions that the SRU should make public the names of offenders and their sentences have been rejected . |
| 26 | They must spring up the trees as the monkeys are driven into them and they are the ones that usually make the kill . |
| 27 | Paragraph 29/10/1(f) of the 1993 White Book recommends that the affidavit should explain why the plaintiff needs an interim payment and details should be given of any special needs and hardship . |
| 28 | Remember that you must answer only the questions asked and no others . |
| 29 | We must contact these people , we must build back the confidence to the unemployed , we 've given these people who are unemployed our good training , we need their expertise to come back and fight again if we 're gon na have any hope for the future . |
| 30 | Accordingly , one must stress again the importance of obtaining the documentation referred to above in addition to obtaining witness statements . |