Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prospects : A pattern which may evolve out of the failures above ; its failure , however , could produce a turning of the tables and the triumph of : |
| 2 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 3 | The purpose is not to anticipate what claims B will make in his application to the Commission , which may range far beyond the concerns of the present article . |
| 4 | These claims may relate either to the internal procedures of the organisation , or to its activities . |
| 5 | Guidelines may relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult language books ) or to more specific categories of books within the function ( e.g. within recreational reading , to romances or popular biographies ) . |
| 6 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 7 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 8 | Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts . |
| 9 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 10 | Other negative feelings may arise out of the learning situation itself , or the student 's total ignorance of the language to be learned . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's stay here for a while . ’ |
| 12 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 13 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 14 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 15 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 16 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 17 | I ought to go down to the police station . |
| 18 | It can occur much earlier , but the peak danger period for the disease generally begins from the early part of July , and may persist right through the growing season until the big temperature drops of late autumn upset it . |
| 19 | To give an example , incest may exist simply as a prohibition at the level of the formal system but at the practical level , breaches of the prohibition are explained , joked about or criticized . |
| 20 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 21 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , puppies in particular may rush out through the door in this situation , often ignoring the visitor , and could end up on the road . |
| 23 | Freud seems to give too much weight to the belief in Christ , and too little to the actual people in the church structures and the emotional ties that may build up between the ‘ secondary leader ’ and the believers . |
| 24 | But the brokers between the private sector and the community , such as BITC , say these sources may dry up in the recession . |
| 25 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 26 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 27 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 28 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 29 | The major problem is that pupils may concentrate solely on the game aspect and also lose interest quickly . |
| 30 | Hawks may swoop down from the sky and carry one off . |