Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Record insertion , deletion and update may involve high costs . |
2 | These apes are the largest tree-living mammals ; a male may weigh 80 kg . |
3 | Family members may suffer severe consequences from the active disease of the primary sufferer but similarly the primary sufferer may suffer severe consequences from the active " family disease " of the family member . |
4 | The sufferer may have significant mood swings , tending always towards depression resulting from the damaged sense of hope and other damaged senses . |
5 | Rumours swept the City yesterday that the Bundesbank may cut German interest rates — leaving Mr Major a little room in which to manoeuvre . |
6 | Approximately 1,500 millilitres of urine is passed by an adult in 24 hours ; defaecation may occur 3 times a day or 3 times a week . |
7 | Is there any danger that this experience may precipitate five years of creative inactivity ? |
8 | If a school can tailor its in-house courses and make them relevant to the needs of the whole school staff , then the dynamics of that collective and shared experience may provide greater rewards . |
9 | It is in the aggregate that the damage may assume serious proportions , hence the emphasis given to preventive work in compliance systems . |
10 | The final result of the immune mediated tissue damage may include mucosal edema , commonly associated with type 1 hypersensitivity , or villus effacement and crypt hyperplasia associated with cell mediated reactions . |
11 | Such struggle may involve spatial structuring of the society , as with the construction of residential segregation in urban areas to promote the interests of some groups and retard those of others ( as with racial groups in the United States : Johnson , 1984c , and chapter 5 below ) . |
12 | The user may make other additions to the module header , including the description , references etc . |
13 | An additional problem is that while concentrating on the keyboard when using an interactive program the user may miss important happenings on the screen . |
14 | A module header is made up of a series of keywords ( upper case ) and their associated fields in which the user may supply some information . |
15 | Whilst it described an ‘ Internal Market ’ where ‘ [ … ] the district health authority operates much like the Health Maintenance Organisation in America ; here the patient and GP may have less choice concerning where treatment is obtained because the health authority will make its own assessment of value for money services from other authorities or the private sector ’ , it also pointed out that there is another totally different model being advocated under the generic term ‘ Internal Market ’ , that is ‘ Automatic and immediate cross-boundary flow reimbursernent ’ , which it states ‘ carries the internal market concept to its full fruition , involving transferring the initiative from the planners and treasurers , to the market customers ( i.e. patients ) and their advisers ( i.e. GPs ) with money following the patient ’ . |
16 | Even though it may not qualify for listing , the building may have interesting features — architectural details , original doors or internal fittings . |
17 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
18 | Likewise , ‘ employment ’ in the sense of earning money may have little relevance in a peasant society where people 's needs are met by the labour of their own hands . |
19 | The payment may constitute taxable income or capital of the recipient in which case it will not be sufficient to meet the full liability in respect of which it was paid . |
20 | A full licence holder who has passed a test for an additional vehicle category may have that category added to his/her entitlement but a new licence will have to be issued . |
21 | The salary should match that given to expatriates in the company 's full-time employ and , in some cases , those working on contract may receive higher rates of pay . |
22 | Of course , if delivery is late the buyer may accept late delivery thereby waiving his right to treat the contract as repudiated . |
23 | Patients bleed from large submucosal veins within the small bowel and although surgical excision of the affected segment may provide long term relief , recurrent bleeding can occur as further adhesions are formed . |
24 | A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause . |
25 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
26 | It does not provide that a board may refuse such applications . |
27 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |
28 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
29 | ( e ) In virtue of s.42(4) , a licensing board may order structural alterations to a canteen . |
30 | the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the licence , and an occasional licence granted to the holder of a restricted hotel licence or a restaurant licence shall be subject to a condition that the sale of alcoholic liquor under the authority of the licence shall be ancillary to the provision of substantial refreshment . |