Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , after filtering the clones , a probe having more than 2 ( N — 1 ) neighbours is found , it is reported as a ‘ suspect ’ one and the user may remove it from the analysis and repeat the procedure . |
| 2 | This fixation may manifest itself in adulthood in one of two extremes ; either stinginess , orderliness , and excessive cleanliness or sloppiness , lack of organisation , and impulsiveness . |
| 3 | For example , in a village in South India , where there may be say twenty distinct castes , a single honorific particle may have just one meaning ( e.g. speaker is inferior to addressee ) but have twenty distinct rules for its appropriate usage : members of one caste may use it to their cross-cousins , others only to their affines , etc. ( for the actual details see Levinson , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | Hence identification of antigenic determinants of IgA response may lead us towards antibody responses likely to be important in parasite clearance . |
| 5 | Thus the basic recording chart may look something like this : |
| 6 | However , if there is a recommended set of conditions , approved by the OFT or by the court , the drafter may adopt them with some confidence that they will pass the reasonableness test . |
| 7 | The term recruitment consultants does imply ‘ high flyer ’ and this description may lead you to organisations with an interest in placing nurses in particular specialties , in management positions , or abroad . |
| 8 | The accumulation of life 's experience should make us at our wisest when we are old . |
| 9 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 10 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 11 | Anyone who wants to make a donation should send it to The Shaun Skelhorn Fund , c/o Lloyds Bank , Shopping City , Runcorn WA7 2DW or PO Box 111 , Runcorn , Cheshire , WA7 2XU . |
| 12 | Anyone who wants to make a donation should send it to The Shaun Skelhorn Fund , c/o Lloyds Bank , Shopping City , Runcorn WA7 2DW or PO Box 111 , Runcorn , Cheshire , WA7 2XU . |
| 13 | If it is necessary for the expatriate couple to learn a new language , the course should provide them with details on where they might go or the steps they should take to achieve this . |
| 14 | A business course should , naturally , have a string of business situations and a science course should have plenty of scientific vocabulary . |
| 15 | Immediately the caveman must prepare himself for two possibilities . |
| 16 | There are a number of interrelated reasons , then , why , when one paradigm competes with another ; there is no logically compelling argument that dictates that a rational scientist should abandon one for the other . |
| 17 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
| 18 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 19 | And there 's a need for external information : the board should know which of its competitors have embarked on similar strategies , and how they are progressing . |
| 20 | ( c ) Drafting for clarity There are well-developed rules of construction used by the courts when interpreting a contract , and the drafter should bear them in mind . |
| 21 | There are general rules of construction which the courts will adopt in interpreting such provisions , and the drafter should bear them in mind . |
| 22 | It has been said that these rules will be applied less stringently to a commercial contract than to other types of document ( Henry Boot Construction v Central Lancashire New Town Development Corpn ( 1980 ) 15 BLR 8 ) but the drafter should bear them in mind and , if possible , avoid their application . |
| 23 | The drafter should regard it as part of his/her job to advise the business client on the adoption of proper procedures . |
| 24 | A female that moves in with an already paired male must share him with the other females . |
| 25 | Except if your coming may release me from the necessity ever to speak to that old hag again ! |
| 26 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 27 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 28 | Horses have a very good memory , and an intelligent horse may learn something from a single incident . |
| 29 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 30 | This guilt-anxiety-fear-anger complex may attach itself to other things than self-view or self-confidence . |