Example sentences of "[modal v] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 2 | We feel that boys , including ourselves , are able to dance as well as anyone , may that be male or female . |
| 3 | These drifting nets of thin monofilament nylon may each be up to 50 km ( 31 miles ) in length , and portions are inevitably lost in bad weather . |
| 4 | In favourable cases the latter may each be recognized embryologically by the presence of ( i ) a pair of hollow mesodermal somites , ( ii ) paired neuromeres ( embryonic ganglia ) , and ( iii ) paired appendages . |
| 5 | It is not enough to say what a course is about ; physicists and engineers , biologists and doctors , economists and managers may each be concerned with the same phenomena but for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 6 | ‘ A well-paid job , a pretty girl or a desirable residence may each be located only five minutes away and yet be effectively inaccessible because one 's inadequate skills , social talents or incomes effectively place them out of bounds … . ’ |
| 7 | Its principal inputs are its address lines , which may each be set to 0 or 1 . |
| 8 | Rather they rely not only to some extent upon judgement and intuition about the future , but also upon personal negotiations and bargaining between the executives , who may be competing with each other for scarce resources and may each be supporting their case with OR and economic models . |
| 9 | But how may this be said to be a Christology ? |
| 10 | The reduced appendages each consist of a limb-base or coxite bearing a distal stylus which is sometimes regarded as the vestige of the shaft of a typical walking limb but which may conceivable be a " coxal epipodite " homologous with the coxal styles of Symphylan or Machilid legs . |
| 11 | Instead of the present fixed ceilings on grants , Responsible Bodies ‘ should each be given an allocation representing the maximum amount of grant available for the year , limited to 75% of the teaching costs , after consideration of the quality and standards of work being done by the responsible body , as well as its proposed programme , the needs of the region in which it operates and the activities of other interested bodies in the region ’ ( Recommendations 5 , 6 ) . |
| 12 | The commercial preparations should each be doubly diluted with sterile water ( for injection ) and then equal volumes mixed together . |
| 13 | Specialist services for children ( cardiac , neurosciences , nephrology , oncology , and plastics ) should each be available in 2 centres ( perhaps 3 for neurosciences ) . |
| 14 | An English observer much involved in these problems complained of Russian diplomats in 1673 that " it is their Custome , to think , whatsoever they get , too little , and whatever they give , too much " , while in 1698 an embassy sent by the Emperor Leopold I to Moscow argued that in future , to avoid such disagreements , the tsar and the Holy Roman Emperor should each be responsible for the maintenance of their own embassies in the way now generally accepted in Europe . |
| 15 | This should preferable be a phonetic description , but if the students have no phonetic training a face diagram accompanied by a tape-recording should be provided . |
| 16 | Add to this that everyone should technical be able to get around all the notes ( as well as together and in tune with everyone else ) ! |
| 17 | I will now discuss three of the cases of allegedly fertile she-mules , bearing in mind that no serological or chromosomal analysis was done , they must each be regarded as ‘ anecdotal ’ . |
| 18 | If you weigh slightly more one morning than the next , why should that be ? |
| 19 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why should that be ? ’ |
| 21 | The freedom of information lobby advocates the maximum possible openness by state and public authorities in disclosing information they hold ; the state is a great collector of personal information — should that be publicly disclosed too ? |
| 22 | Remember , your health is in your own hands ; or should that be feet ? |
| 23 | And I do n't mean Jon Beast ( or should that be Jean Bête ? |
| 24 | Should that be classified as a misspelling , or was it just ‘ wrongly ’ written ? |
| 25 | Or should that be depths ? |
| 26 | Except , of course , that the Mistress of All She Perv-eys is an arch media manipulator ( witness the airbrushed photos — an erotic , or should that be Sex-y , product plug , yah ? ) . |
| 27 | Or should that be : their feelers ? |
| 28 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 29 | Cover Girl Poker ) or should that be poke her ? ) is the latest in a long line of attempted trouser-arousers to appear on the C64 . |
| 30 | While the press welcomed The Big Wheel with open arms , the public were less enthusiastic and they soon fell victim to overwhelming , or should that be underwhelming , apathy . |