Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly .
2 Workers or management may control some aspect of operations , but the struggle may simply shift to another area .
3 This measure may well have to be considered now ( as Washington is hinting ) , as it has become crystal-clear that the Bosnian war is being fomented by Milosevic and the extreme Serb leaders in Bosnia , and is primarily waged by the army .
4 Such an explanation of discontent may perhaps apply to educated middle-class housewives , but we find little evidence of status frustrations among working-class wives .
5 For example , an archaeologist in a museum attached to a university may also lecture to students , as well as direct research excavations for the university , and thus perform many of the functions of all three types of professional archaeologist .
6 It has been suggested the case may yet go to the Appeal Court and possibly the House of Lords .
7 The second demands that the child itself should be the focus of our attention , although other sides of the case may also need to be dealt with .
8 Many words and phrases have a technical legal meaning , and it is quite proper , and often necessary , to use such language in order to convey a precise legal meaning : for instance , the drafter may deliberately refer to the requirement that the goods be " merchantable " , because that word is used in the SGA , even though it is not in common use .
9 These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’
10 Does he believe this stricture should also apply to lawyers , doctors and dentists ?
11 Thus , according to Bork ( 1978 , p. 245 ) ‘ in the absence of a most unlikely proved predatory power and purpose , antitrust should never object to the verticality of any merger ’ and , much more straightforward , ‘ every vertical restraint should be completely lawful ’ ( p. 288 ) .
12 Your response should also indicate to whom the memorandum should be sent and who will be the party we should address all future correspondence .
13 Odium and opprobrium may well attach to a brother who ruins another brother by such guile . ’
14 Bloody-mindedness may sometimes amount to contributory fault , as may any particularly unreasonable behaviour .
15 Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes .
16 Chronic conditions such as diabetes and weakness after a stroke may also lead to incontinence .
17 A positive result may also lead to a great consciousness of the need to lead a healthier life and to seek medical advice where there is any indication of illness .
18 On a more subjective level social isolation may also refer to feelings of loneliness and concerns about the quality and quantity of social contacts .
19 While the future may well belong to thoroughbred digital systems , right now it is a question of satisfying today 's needs with today 's technology .
20 Section 16(8) of the Act says the search may only extend to the purpose for which the warrant is issued .
21 The applicant should therefore come to court with a future treatment plan and be prepared to explain why any other type of order under the Act , or indeed no order at all , would be inappropriate .
22 IFAs belonging to the association must also belong to a contributory compensation fund that protects your investments from unforeseen problems , such as fraud .
23 Economic restrictions to industry should only apply to those connected with armaments .
24 The only restriction being that a condition must directly relate to the site and must be reasonable .
25 ‘ In the present spirit of the age , ’ Surtees replied with a sidelong glance at Catherine , ‘ more generous provision from the public purse might even lead to a proliferation of bastardy .
26 On the contrary , he maintains that such a study might well lead to the extension of one 's regard for one 's own religion to other religions , and at the same time , provide a better understanding of one 's own faith .
27 In that case , the electorate might well prefer to be Red and live to fight another day rather than be consigned to a nuclear crematorium .
28 Moreover , an inconclusive rule might well lead to a preference for uncertainty , if that can be positively exploited .
29 Ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of Parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance .
30 Lord Oliver of Aylmerton commented that ‘ ingenuity can sometimes suggest ambiguity or obscurity where none exists in fact , and if the instant case were to be thought to justify the exercise of combing through reports of parliamentary proceedings in the hope of unearthing some perhaps incautious expression of opinion in support of an improbable secondary meaning , the relaxation of the rule might indeed lead to the fruitless expense and labour which has been prayed in aid in the past as one of the reasons justifying its maintenance ’ .
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