Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 2 | If writing on an electronic tablet , which combines the input and display devices , the user may find it disconcerting to see the handwriting changing under their pen . ) |
| 3 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 4 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 5 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 6 | Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms . |
| 7 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 8 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 9 | But it has also been apparent from the very beginning of the tale , where Wilekin " began to love a married woman " that " love " in this text may mean nothing more than carnal desire . |
| 10 | Until I can repay the dowry , I have set aside apartments in my household , where my kinswoman may keep her own establishment however she may dispose . |
| 11 | Regional brewers fear that the decision may make them vulnerable to predators . |
| 12 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 13 | If you have it in you to comment on our times through humour , generally of the deflationary sort , then combining this with a crime story may bring you extra dividends . |
| 14 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 15 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 16 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 17 | Clearly also the Christian must use his own mind to receive the word of God . |
| 18 | — businesses in this field should contact our High Technology branches for advice on the special problems facing them . |
| 19 | Counsel for the applicant advised that the examination be limited to the issue of the applicant 's fitness to plead and that the defence should instruct their own forensic psychiatrist to report on other possible defences . |
| 20 | ( When writing a parallel construct the programmer must declare which global variables and channels are to be assigned to each component process . ) |
| 21 | From now on the people of Marinus must find their own answers . |
| 22 | The reason for this is that the snake must do its best to protect its precious fangs . |
| 23 | On the proposal that the training contract should make it possible for employers to recover the cost of their investment in training , the difficulties to which the hon. Gentleman referred can be reflected in the contract . |
| 24 | ‘ The cast change should keep it fresh , ’ says Miss Aitchison , 30 . |
| 25 | But a healthy faith should include them all , and it should have each of them in its proper place . |
| 26 | Other posts could be ‘ teleworked ’ and anyone interested in the possibility of working from home by computer link should contact their departmental personnel officer to discuss the matter . |
| 27 | Parliament must perform what political scientists call ‘ regime support systems ’ : that is , the parliamentary process confers authority upon governmental activity and law making . |
| 28 | We do not wish to say how a writer should organise his written discourse into paragraphs before we have managed to characterise , in any comprehensive way , how writers typically do so . |
| 29 | B and K claimed that the Board should give them sufficient information to enable them to answer the case against them . |
| 30 | In that case should call it subject report ? |