Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] considerable " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participants may experience considerable pain , grief , frustration and bitterness because adoption is a bereavement situation , involving loss of identity and knowledge of birth parents . |
| 2 | A neighbour , for instance , may experience considerable financial hardship if his property is flooded , and if this is repeated may be unable to obtain insurance cover . |
| 3 | The authorities may experience considerable difficulties in controlling the money supply . |
| 4 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 5 | For example , skilled workers may enjoy considerable autonomy by virtue of their employer 's reliance on their skills — so much so that the employer gives little thought to attempts to rationalise work or de-skill jobs . |
| 6 | Similarly , although many physically handicapped adults are extremely independent in their everyday lives , the AL of maintaining a safe environment is one aspect of living with which they may need considerable help . |
| 7 | She and the family may need considerable help to change this viewpoint . |
| 8 | Perhaps the ending of the video is too rosy , but then sexually abused children may need considerable reassurance that ‘ good things can still happen ’ . |
| 9 | It also undermined the economic resources of the landowners , although here one must stress considerable regional variations — the land market in South-east England remained buoyant because of its proximity to the London market , which provided an outlet for agricultural produce . |
| 10 | In trying to negotiate we must give considerable credence to the particular problem of the most difficult areas . |
| 11 | If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults . |
| 12 | For this reason the purchaser should take considerable care in defining the restricted business . |
| 13 | Reversing into these holes for a lengthy creature like an eel , must pose considerable steering problems . |
| 14 | Obviously when you budget you have to allow the most money for the rooms you arc actually going to live in , but once you have decided on what cash is available you must turn considerable thought and care — if not money — to making your hall as warm and welcoming and practical as you can . |
| 15 | These may generate considerable opposition as the current controversy at Avebury suggests . |
| 16 | Assumptions ( ii ) and ( iii ) may present considerable problems in practise for in reality loads are never applied to the ends of a sample , but to its side-ends , and so the uniformity of stress across the sample is called into question . |
| 17 | All these may do considerable damage to his reputation . |
| 18 | Personally I am not alarmed and , unless they are upset by their own extremists , it would not surprise me were they to remain in office for some time , during which they may do considerable good . |
| 19 | It will include reasoning or thinking and might make considerable use of long-term memory or experience . |
| 20 | erm I sometimes feel erm that erm in fact = it would be a good idea when I see people doing things which I regard as immediately dangerous , but I think it might make considerable difficulties for the relationship between the police and the motoring public which erm are already at times very strained , and I 'm not sure , for some of the reasons erm that Norbert has suggested , that it 's erm necessarily a very erm happy system . |
| 21 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 22 | Similarly , banks make merchandise loans to enable customers to cope with seasonal imports especially where bulk purchases might ensure considerable discounts . |
| 23 | However , small , non-mechanical parts are fair game and might show considerable savings . |
| 24 | Firstly , although a clearinghouse might have considerable files to draw upon in answering an enquiry , the communication of all the relevant information may be clerically impossible and the information may on occasion have to be brief summaries ; obviously those clearinghouses with a computerized database are at an advantage here . |
| 25 | These are ambitious questions , whose answers might have considerable implications for the way parents approach child rearing . |
| 26 | Many of the most influential other union leaders , Thomas from the right wing , Bevin from the left-centre ( which was his position in those days ) , might have considerable doubt about the tactical skill of the miners ' leaders . |
| 27 | Composite technology , suitably developed for mass production , might offer considerable savings on this investment . |
| 28 | Clearly , even short-tail streamers might represent considerable handicaps in families where the fitness consequences of impaired flight are extremely high . |
| 29 | The disposal of physical assets sometimes might involve considerable expense and inconvenience , e.g. legal documentation associated with land and property transactions . |
| 30 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |