Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , internal conflicts may exist within the bureaucracy as different sectors within it compete for scarce resources . |
| 2 | The latter should be reinforced by regulating what personnel may carry into the warehouse , on entry , together with an effective disciplinary procedure agreed by employees and unions . |
| 3 | Firstly , it is widely accepted , though admittedly not conclusively established , that major ice ages may result from the siting of large continental masses in the polar regions , because only in such circumstances can extensive ice sheets become established , with significant consequences for world climate ( Frakes , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Even if your reaction is mild , it 's worth remembering that repeated exposure to foods that cause allergic reactions may result in the symptoms getting gradually worse . |
| 5 | Employers may pay for the provision of furniture/household equipment and pay for or subsidise the costs of supplying gas , electricity , water and telephones . |
| 6 | Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help . |
| 7 | Cold sores may appear on the lips or genitalia . |
| 8 | In this sense parallels may develop between the regional negotiation processes over the Kampuchean and Afghan conflicts . |
| 9 | It also singles out moor and heath for specially favourable treatment ; habitats such as wetlands and species-rich grasslands may remain within the scope of the grants . |
| 10 | If the petition is advertised , more creditors may jump on the bandwagon . |
| 11 | However , the lack of relationship between the technical dimension of work and housework satisfaction patterns may point to the relative unimportance of working conditions as factors shaping work satisfaction generally . |
| 12 | Now those critics have been joined by what entrenched IRFU committeemen may regard as the Enemy Within . |
| 13 | Social life revolves mainly round the hotels , though dedicated night owls may retire to the late bars , or visit the bright lights of Bodrum and the spectacular ‘ Halikarnas ’ disco . |
| 14 | The need to include stock market volatility in the pricing equation for index futures may account for the apparent mispricings indicated by the no-arbitrage condition , particularly when the market is volatile , when the general equilibrium model would not indicate a mispricing . |
| 15 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 16 | His comments had an immediate impact on the City , where analysts have grown increasingly anxious in recent weeks about the risk that asset values may fall in the face of oversupply and forced sales of buildings . |
| 17 | The authorities may call in the army to apprehend alleged offenders . |
| 18 | Nevertheless serious misgivings may persist about the wisdom of ascribing identity to meanings . |
| 19 | Mutations may result in the activation of oncogenes or the inactivation of tumour suppressor genes , leading to abnormal or unregulated cell growth . |
| 20 | If main classes are unbalanced in size and more subdivisions are made in some classes than others ( to cater for the extensive literature of a larger subject ) , then long notations may result in the ‘ larger ’ areas . |
| 21 | This refers to the way in which a particular experimenter may influence different subjects , or to the effect that different experimenters may have on the same subject . |
| 22 | Opinions may differ on the relative contributions of different factors to the changes , but of the pressures pushing governments further and faster into the arms of the multinationals there can be little doubt . |
| 23 | While fights may occur in the context of displays of rivalry , the exhibition of the character in question is often sufficient . |
| 24 | These groups may draw on the professional skills of individual party members who can act as an independent source of advice to the party groups on the council . |
| 25 | They usually do not even risk saying , as they truthfully could , that though groups may differ on the average , group differences are small relative to individual differences , and that every sociological stratum and ethnic group contains the full range of mental ability . |
| 26 | Policies may cater for the do-it-yourself enthusiast . |
| 27 | Opening times may vary with the season with extensions during the 50th anniversary celebrations . |
| 28 | Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance . |
| 29 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 30 | Alternatively the tentacle scales may lie above the distal oral papillae . |