Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research work also continues on serotonin secretion by the brain and on drugs that may affect that process . |
| 2 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
| 3 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 4 | However , training is the tool that may enable greater awareness of NACAB policies and their relevance ; through training both the long-term aims of the association and the immediate aims of the adviser might be achieved , but conflict arises when there is insufficient time for both . |
| 5 | ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers . |
| 6 | Pilots may not fully appreciate the nature of manoeuvre-induced errors ( frequently called instrument lag ) that may effect pressure-dependent flight instruments during manoeuvres which result in a change of angle of attack . |
| 7 | This is a complex series of events that may involve various altered cellular properties , such as secretion of proteolytic enzymes , alterations in cell motility , and altered growth properties , as well as possible changes in adhesiveness . |
| 8 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 9 | Strangely , this section does not mention modification of childbearing patterns among the measures that may serve this goal , while expressly stating that : " Sustained reductions in fertility have generally been preceded by reductions in mortality . |
| 10 | Because of the perceived significance of augmentation of basal UOS pressure as a mechanism that may prevent gastro-oesophageal reflux , we performed an analysis of the effects of oesophageal distention and acidification on basal UOS pressure . |
| 11 | the ending may seem quite unconvincing , with the prospect of their marriage , but there are a few clues from Pip 's first meeting with her till then that may suggest some development . |
| 12 | In some species males and females consort socially in long-term relationships that may last many years . |
| 13 | Very recent taxonomic observations , though , have identified a population of pigs in northern Kenya and Somalia that may match this description . |
| 14 | As an example — when an infill mailshot is taking place that may generate hundreds of responses by phone , or post do we |
| 15 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 16 | To give more power to the carver 's elbow there are now a wide range of electric carving systems , and here we test a selection of machines and tools that may offer more than a saving in time |
| 17 | Although these data are extremely useful , it can not assess reflux of potentially harmful materials such as bile , which has a near neutral pH , or even food with a near neutral pH that may contain other damaging agents such as pepsin . |
| 18 | By implication , Levitt takes the view that a global market should be viewed as one with particular market segments that may bear little or no relationship to geographical boundaries . |
| 19 | Secondly , much of the evidence presented in the editorial ( and this letter ) is based on hypotheses derived from models of invasion and metastasis that may bear little relation to the function of metalloproteinases in vivo . |
| 20 | ( k ) To enter into any arrangements with any government or authority ( supreme , municipal , local or otherwise ) that may seen conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them , and to obtain from any such government or authority any charters , decrees , rights , privileges or concessions which the Company may think desirable and to carry out , exercise , and comply with any such charters , decrees , rights , privileges , and concessions . |
| 21 | ( k ) To enter into any arrangements with any government or authority ( supreme , municipal , local or otherwise ) that may seen conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them , and to obtain from any such government or authority any charters , decrees , rights , privileges or concessions which the Company may think desirable and to carry out , exercise , and comply with any such charters , decrees , rights , privileges , and concessions . |
| 22 | As we approach retirement , we are in an age range that may encompass another kind of loss and sense of loneliness — the death of parents . |
| 23 | You should watch out for any fish that may harass all of the other inmates to the point of serious damage ; or for one particular fish being harassed by the rest of its companions to the point of being shoved into a corner . |
| 24 | In other words , the system of competitive vote bidding acts like a ratchet encouraging ever more government services at the same time as it penalises a government prepared to take " tough " decisions that may hit particular interests in the short run even though these decisions may work to the advantage of all in the longer run . |
| 25 | In one small area in Nigeria , each nest is a cluster of towers and minarets grouped around a central spire that may rise twenty feet high . |
| 26 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 27 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 28 | Morals from this episode that may have some parallels with the test-tube fusion story of 1989 include the delicate balance between the world of science and the media . |
| 29 | In clinical practice the sufferer is helped to see that there are other choices , other " pictures " that can be put into the mental library of how life is or could be , and that there is no need to attempt to control one 's life by clinging to a fixed perception of reality that may have some validity for the sufferer but little validity for others . |
| 30 | It was the Europeans who cultivated fish that may have satisfied culinary requirements , but at the expense of what some would consider to be the aesthetic qualities of a ‘ typical ’ carp . |