Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the disruptive effects of damage may spread to other structures intimately linked to Broca 's area . |
| 3 | For example , long-standing marital disharmony may lie behind apparent rejection ; indeed , it may be that the disability of one partner provides the first and only reliable opportunity for old people to separate . |
| 4 | Or the text may consist of connected prose passages , items of information about some aspect of British life , letters , newspaper articles and so on . |
| 5 | The cubitus ( Co ) divides into two main branches , the first cubitus ( Cu1 ) being convex and the second cubitus ( Cu2 ) concave ; the first cubitus may subdivide into anterior ( Cu1a ) and posterior(Cu1b) veins . |
| 6 | It seems that in addition to a large number of pernicious anaemia patients with stable nodular hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells , there are patients in whom the hyperplastic change may progress to carcinoid tumours and some in whom it regresses . |
| 7 | Under no circumstances should frequent elevator movements be made with the object of maintaining a constant indicated airspeed , height or rate-of-climb , as this technique may lead to severe low frequency oscillation in pitch . |
| 8 | Expectations of parental roles and responsibility may differ from western views and the techniques that parents use may appear inappropriate for our cultural viewpoint . |
| 9 | Concordances produced by computer may differ from traditional hand-made concordances in several ways . |
| 10 | Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover . |
| 11 | In species that forage inshore , clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances . |
| 12 | However , the fact that the defence may resort to procedural tactics or that the weakness of some investigations may become apparent under re-investigation should not lead us to reject a formal mechanism of quality control . |
| 13 | Suddenly stopping the drug may result in acute " withdrawal " effects such as delirium tremens for alcohol or " cold turkey " ( which feels like a bad bout of influenza ) for heroin . |
| 14 | Additional standards relating to disinfection may apply to high risk areas . |
| 15 | Responsibility for provision may change without corresponding changes in the source of finance . |
| 16 | But in industrial goods markets the role of the buying function may vary from significant to relatively insignificant . |
| 17 | Much of the variation in the items is indeed directly related to their use , but the variability in the design of objects destined for the same function may point to socio-cultural differences . |
| 18 | An allegory may depart from everyday life into a make-believe world . |
| 19 | Furthermore , at refined levels of analysis , subtle differences at the species level may correlate with ecological adaptations that are obscured by grosser analyses of a whole taxonomic group . |
| 20 | However , it appears that this change must relate to certain dialects of Southern British English at that date , and not necessarily to other dialects . |
| 21 | This warns that one of the leads to the keyboard must be twisted , and the user should beware of long component leads from the Spectrum 's PCB shorting out on the metal base . |
| 22 | And he established the principle that any decision which drew on the contingency reserve of public money should go to full Cabinet and not be taken in Cabinet committee , where the Chancellor and the Chief Secretary could all too easily fall prey to ambushes set by cabals of spending ministers . |
| 23 | I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those . |
| 24 | Unfortunately good judgement must mature through hard experience , but it is basic commonsense to check the freezing levels on the forecast , and to ask other climbers , and particularly hut guardians for information on the condition of your proposed route . |
| 25 | It was undesirable in principle that Ministers who shared a collective responsibility should vote in different Lobbies , even on an issue of this kind … |
| 26 | It held that any system of assessment should –relate to expected routes of development' ( DES 1988a : para. 91 ) . |
| 27 | Typical examples are cases where one is given notice that everyone who enters a certain house , club , or park must abide by certain rules , obey a certain authority , or do so at his own risk . |
| 28 | During the period , apart from emergencies , any additional funding must come from existing programmes ( Collender , 1992 , 280–93 ) . |
| 29 | If we pursue the doctrine of the orogeny/regression couple , then we must also expect the corollary that the wearing down of mountain ranges and the spread of continents by marginal sedimentation must lead to widespread transgressions . |
| 30 | It is now widely accepted that the thrust of EC farm support must move towards direct payments to farmers . |