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

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1 Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain .
2 Change your outlook P.R.S. or ‘ driving ’ a 737 may remain just a dream .
3 Thus some may remain forever the audience without the power to express their point of view .
4 A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal .
5 It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality .
6 LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors .
7 For a long time this was a virtual no-go area for climbers , particularly scruffy ones , but this is now no longer the case , and a pint or two here ought to round off a Froggatt day rather nicely .
8 We ought to go down the tip later on again .
9 The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything .
10 The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease .
11 The cause was never known but affected soldiers all had close contact with soil — which may explain why the cavalry and officers were rarely affected .
12 This may have led to some confusion and may explain why the condition , though acknowledged to be common , is not widely recognised .
13 This means that leaded bronze is relatively weak and may explain why the statuette in Figure 5.2 , which has a particularly high lead content of about 30 per cent , was broken at the neck .
14 This may explain why the French , on the same number of overdue days as the UK , make a profit , whereas the latter incurs a substantial loss . ’
15 ‘ He came across this seed in Cumbria and said : ‘ I wonder if we ought to invest in a bit ? ’ .
16 Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product .
17 For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness .
18 Competitors may throw out a challenge by improving the product and offering a better distribution service , for example .
19 But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ .
20 When he has attracted a female , she becomes the boss at the nest and may throw out the decorations to assert her occupancy .
21 A pattern need not cover the whole board ; thus in Os & Xs , a pattern may cover just a row , or just a diagonal .
22 Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next .
23 We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick .
24 It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder .
25 For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function .
26 If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition .
27 If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law …
28 We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared
29 The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles .
30 The key is turned to the left for maximum output , but if turned too far the integral cleaning needle engages and may snuff out the flame — you need to be really careful .
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