Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [adv] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old master-spy , William Casey , was said , not least by North , to have masterminded both the Iran and contra operations , and that may well be true of the broad canvas ; but the marks are those of an enthusiastic amateur in espionage , a man who had learnt his craft of secret agent more from the cinema than from the CIA handbook . |
| 2 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 3 | As with the ( TMTSF ) 2 X salts , the structure of ( BEDT-TTF ) 4 ( ReO 4 ) 2 may well be important in determining how well it conducts electricity at low temperatures . |
| 4 | This may again be necessary for work with learning resources , but librarians and experienced teachers will in any case want to stress the absolute necessity of previous detailed checking to see that the resources likely to be helpful and required are actually available . |
| 5 | The will of the person is under the demon 's control , and this may also be true for the voice . |
| 6 | This may also be true for Ophiodelos and Ophiologimus judging from original figures and descriptions . |
| 7 | This may also be true of Aung San , Sukarno , and others ; but the careful investigator can disentangle myth from reality for most of their important moves and decisions . |
| 8 | [ This may also be true of theses ] . |
| 9 | They suggest that this may partly be due to a failure to sustain the successful community based health education activities of the early and mid-1980s . |
| 10 | This may well be appropriate for some patients but falls short of securing treatment for others whose relapses may be abrupt and catastrophic . |
| 11 | They require navigation through the class hierarchy ( rather like hierarchical and network DBMS ) and though this may well be appropriate for some applications , it is not appropriate to all . |
| 12 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 13 | But the main effect of the Candida toxins is to depress the immune system — while this may well be important in perpetuating the Candida infection , it would not account for the symptoms described above . |
| 14 | This may well be true for the Weald , as Peter Sawyer shows . |
| 15 | Frequently , all that they will have to guide them through the recommendations of officials will be their own political common sense ; this may well be adequate for a strong minister , but others may find it hard to change the bureaucracy 's course . |
| 16 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 17 | The centres with high U/Pb also have higher average Ce/Pb than most basalts ( Fig. 3 c ) If the U/Pb ratios are representative of their sources and were fractionated at the time of formation of the oceanic lithosphere , this must also be true of the Ce/Pb ratios . |
| 18 | You may see them dimpling the surface and if they are concentrated along a particular section this must obviously be worthy of attention . |
| 19 | He was to add that the French should also be glad to be allied to the Scots , ‘ for from Scotland we may repulse the English , and from thence enter easily into their country , which gives no great odds against them , and thus enables us to curb and check them . ’ |
| 20 | This might therefore be useful in diagnosing strictures caused by extrinsic compression on the bile ducts . |
| 21 | This could also be attractive to a sponsor . |
| 22 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 23 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 24 | This would again be reclaimable by a registered person . |
| 25 | This would clearly be unfair on the defendant because at the end of the period of the dependency the whole of the capital sum would remain . |
| 26 | Although some of these defects might eventually be treatable by gene therapy , this would never be possible for all of them , and prevention is in any case better than cure . |
| 27 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 28 | So a lot of this would actually be irrelevant to yourself . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ We may decide that all are acceptable , that none are acceptable , that some are acceptable and others not , or that some would only be acceptable with minor modifications . ’ |
| 30 | If we look far enough ahead electric vehicles are eventually likely to replace the internal combustion engine but this will probably be far in the future for a number of reasons . |