Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the disappearance of the archedictyon , or of an individual vein , the macrotrichia may persist on the wing-membrane in their original positions ; their presence there is regarded by Tillyard as evidence of descent from more densely veined ancestors . |
| 2 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 3 | Similarly , a male may crouch like a female and perform pseudo-female behaviour , being mounted by another tom . |
| 4 | But there is a way through and in spite of how the sufferer may feel at the time , there will be a return to normality . |
| 5 | Jack Cowan , working at the California Institute of Technology , Pasadena , California , thinks that at least part of the hallucinogenic experience may result from an instability of neural activity in the visual cortex . |
| 6 | But they are concerned about the psychological effect the experience may have on the girls . |
| 7 | Just as an animal without previous experience may respond to a complex stimulus , so it may produce a complex set of movements in response to a stimulus . |
| 8 | If , however , the requirements are not well defined or the system design is not capable of meeting all the requirements , then much unnecessary fire , smoke and water damage may occur through the system failing to control the fire quickly . |
| 9 | Both these factors may apply , but the sequence of learning may also be the result of choices for whatever reason , which those formulating and operating the curriculum may recommend in the light of teaching experience . |
| 10 | some residual contamination may remain in the soil owing to concentrations which do not induce microbial degradation ; |
| 11 | Standards may well rise from 1990 , but the rise may stem from the National Curriculum , testing , parental choice , opting out , or other factors which have nothing to do with the ERA . |
| 12 | In the case of cream cheese fillings for pies and flans , the risk is that the moisture may sink into the pastry , making it soggy . |
| 13 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 14 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 15 | In part this difficulty may stem from the uncertain legal nature of the action for breach of confidence . |
| 16 | A difficulty may occur in the interpretation of metabolite concentrations and pain response . |
| 17 | Having established the presence of money as pure symbol and medium of abstract and relational thought , Simmel goes on to address several major features of such a state and to show how money may stand as the quintessence of each . |
| 18 | Two recent reports have focused on the part that early nutrition may play in the later development of diabetes . |
| 19 | Issues of equal opportunity may arise in a number of contexts ; for example , those of gender , race , disability and religion . |
| 20 | The induction of apoptosis by p53 following genotoxic insult may act as a defence mechanism to protect the organism from the propagation of cells that have sustained mutation . |
| 21 | As we saw in Chapter 4 , your contract may cater for a wide variety of perks , such as : |
| 22 | ( 3 ) A construction contract may provide for the determination by |
| 23 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 24 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 25 | Remember , too , when acting for a seller on a sale by auction to attend the sale itself to answer any questions that a prospective buyer may raise on the title or the special conditions — and be wary of the questioner who seeks to suggest that the title is faulty or that restrictions prohibit development , etc , in the hope of abating the bids offered . |
| 26 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) When granting a licence , a licensing board may attach to the licence any condition set out in a byelaw by virtue of paragraph ( 1 ) of subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 2 ) below , a licensing board may arrange for the discharge of any of its functions by a committee of the board , a member or members of the board , the clerk of the board or any other person appointed to assist the clerk . |
| 29 | For example , the marginal propensity to make bequests out of lifetime income may rise with the level of income . |
| 30 | Erosion may be very considerable , but , because the area of net measurement of soil movement is large , sedimentation may occur within the same unit and therefore net erosion is estimated to be small ( see also Blandford 1981 ) . |