Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] occur [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , the requirements are not well defined or the system design is not capable of meeting all the requirements , then much unnecessary fire , smoke and water damage may occur through the system failing to control the fire quickly . |
| 2 | A difficulty may occur in the interpretation of metabolite concentrations and pain response . |
| 3 | While fights may occur in the context of displays of rivalry , the exhibition of the character in question is often sufficient . |
| 4 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 5 | If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced . |
| 6 | The polypary may occur at the end of a stalk , giving the coral the appearance of a toadstool , or alternatively , in encrusting forms , the polypary may rest directly on the substrate , attaching itself by rootlike processes as the coral grows . |
| 7 | Again , much higher densities may occur on the chalk , and 14 pairs were found nesting in a three-acre patch of kale at Burpham in 1969 , an extraordinary concentration . |
| 8 | The first cut should occur with the removal of advisers from battalions and a general cut in advisers to headquarters and service troops : Roberts recommended that no cuts be implemented before January 1951 , as the intervening period was crucial for training purposes . |
| 9 | He devised an experiment to ascertain whether salivation could occur in the absence of any obvious physical cause . |
| 10 | These singularities would occur in the past at the beginning of the present expansion of the universe ( the big bang ) , and in the future in the gravitational collapse of stars and , possibly , of the universe itself . |
| 11 | Other similar combinations will occur to the student who has absorbed the principles of balance . |
| 12 | For the beginning reader uncertainty will occur over the identity of individual letters and words , but the flexible interaction of different sources of information will help solve recognition problems . |
| 13 | The check is terminated whenever the bounding approach either proves that the specified condition can not occur , or establishes that the condition can Occur at the level of original definition . |
| 14 | Cutting may occur at the time of binge-eating . |
| 15 | Indeed , adenomas and dysplastic areas may occur throughout the biliary and pancreatic tree in patients with FAP and these may predispose such patients to pancreatitis . |
| 16 | The answer may quite simply be that semantically redundant dependent elements may occur without the penalty of abnormality provided they are syntactically obligatory , as are the direct objects of gnash and purse . |
| 17 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
| 18 | Alternatively , a new discovery might occur as the result of an accident , as Roentgen was led to the discovery of X-rays by the constant blackening of photographic plates stored in the vicinity of his discharge tube . |
| 19 | It is to be hoped a change of attitude will occur as the credibility of abseiling as a legitimate activity in its own right grows . |
| 20 | If a key includes fields to indicate district , stock classification or the like , runs of keys will occur in the key sequence . |
| 21 | As a result , errors can occur in the processing of the royalty payments and the contract may be open to various interpretations . |
| 22 | Here the failure may occur despite the fact that the episode in question has been adequately stored and is potentially retrievable ( if actually asked at the time the drivers could have probably correctly retrieved the information that they were uninsured / driving on full beam / on the wrong route ) , the problem is instead that the driver fails to use the knowledge available at the correct time . |
| 23 | One source of difficulty and confusion which , as we shall see , has survived the statutory reforms associated with the Contempt of Court Act 1981 is that interference with justice as a continuing process may occur through the medium of a particular criminal or civil case . |
| 24 | No one can predict when a busy period may occur in the ward . |
| 25 | A rating of 1 would mean that you feel there is no possible way in which an accident could occur in the situation , a rating of 7 would mean that you feel that you could be involved in an accident at any moment . ’ |
| 26 | This strategy assumes that a reciprocal rebalancing of power in the work' group will occur through the emergence of maintenance behaviours ; in fact , a very different set of relationships may emerge , and not without some intra-group conflict . |
| 27 | If the Pitot tube points into the flow , the pressure Ps will occur at the point S and will be measured by a manometer connected to outlet 1 ( the manometer must , of course , block the tube , so that there is no flow through it ) . |
| 28 | If the materials used to build walls , roofs and other parts of a building allow water vapour to penetrate , then condensation can occur within the structure as well as on its surface if the air 's moisture content is high and the structure 's temperature is low . |
| 29 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 30 | Spelling changes may occur at the morpheme boundaries resulting in slight changes to the surface string produced by the morpheme combinations . |