Example sentences of "things [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 2 | After all , if she loses her job , things may be difficult , but if I lose my job we can not pay the mortgage . |
| 3 | Still , some things may be said with reasonable assurance . |
| 4 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
| 5 | I will feel more and more independent … more able to stick up for myself … to stand upon my own feet … to hold my own … no matter how difficult or trying things may be . |
| 6 | The danger here is that , although things may be pleasant for the workers , the incentive to work very hard is not so direct and it may not be possible to maintain a competitive position in comparison with the same industry in a developing country . |
| 7 | First , he holds that we should recognize that valuable things may be organic unities ; second , he recommends a method of isolation . |
| 8 | Today , however , things may be changing not only is the Warhol story going to be made into a film and shown on television , but half a dozen projects about modern or contemporary artists are now either being made or planned . |
| 9 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 10 | Things may be different , however , if we adopt a more flexible definition of " word-pair " , as is advocated by several recent authors . |
| 11 | Indeed , in some cases evidence that seems to point to one of these things may be rejected on the grounds that the phenomenon is impossible . |
| 12 | Under the Act , the following things may be |
| 13 | Both seem to have favoured resting sites where these things may be found . |
| 14 | ‘ All things may be supposed . |
| 15 | Literary representation enters a complex negotiation with history , a debate about ‘ things ’ ( institutions , actions , events ) and the words used to name them with an awareness that both the names and the things may be otherwise . |
| 16 | Cassettes and other things may be purchased for multiple reasons — perhaps usually they are . |
| 17 | Express mention of some things may be taken to exclude other , similar items , which are not mentioned , unless they are included by general words : expressio unius est exclusio alterius . |
| 18 | To the Manor now , where things may be looking up for Oxford United . |
| 19 | As yet , there 's no suitable vaccine , but thanks to scientists at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford and funding from the research charity , the Wellcome Trust , things may be about to change . |
| 20 | Things should be made easier ; after all actors come from all walks of life and we should n't keep them out . |
| 21 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 22 | Clark had chanced upon one of the abiding ironies of the century : that this most stridently liberal of times manages to be the most illiberal in its insistence that things should be ‘ genuine ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps one should ‘ allow that a certain knowledge derived from our experience of the appearances of things should be termed genuine knowledge ’ . |
| 24 | She is near the age we were Ellen when we first went into service and has no idea how things should be done . |
| 25 | They gave you your place , yes they did , they gave you your place ; and you gave them theirs ; and that was how things should be . |
| 26 | For me , it makes much more sense to look at the world from the point of view that things should be perfect . |
| 27 | Sweet things should be an after-meal treat only . |
| 28 | This power , above all things should be the unfailing ally of the forces trying to maintain law and order but it has been allowed to become weakened to the point that it is almost non-existent in the mental make-up of a great many people . |
| 29 | Roland , on the other hand , believes things should be kept as they are . |
| 30 | He wanted to know how things should be done . |