Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb mod] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to shut my mouth or there would be serious repercussions . ’ |
| 2 | Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between . |
| 3 | An attack may be totally sudden or there may be prior warning . |
| 4 | Or there may be lateral substitution , with people moving sideways into kinds of work which are different from , though often related to , their initial training . |
| 5 | The matter may be sub judice or there may be other people to consult . |
| 6 | If you write it yourself it may turn out to be invalid , or there may be legal ambiguities in what you thought were clear requests . |
| 7 | For example , auditors may require a revaluation for the balance sheet to be stated to show a true and fair view ; or there may be considerable delay before the market improves . |
| 8 | There are sometimes very good reasons why a woman needs strong pain relief : the baby may be at risk , or there may be obstetric reasons . |
| 9 | Or there may be ideological elements worth teasing out , either in the object of study ( in the social activity or institution brought into purview ) or in the corpus of knowledge itself . |
| 10 | ‘ Or there will be new ones . ’ |
| 11 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 12 | The symbols X , Y , … on the right may be symbols which occur in the text ( terminal symbols ) ; or they may be other symbols which are invented for use just within the grammar ( variables ) . |
| 13 | Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target . |
| 14 | Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity . |
| 15 | They may , for instance , be capable of rising magnificently to the occasion when a neighbour 's sick , deprived , or even delinquent child needs help , or they may be wonderful wives , husbands or parents and do much useful voluntary work in the community , and yet lack the particular type of emotional muscle required to support old people . |
| 16 | Or they may be national anthems , flags and romantic notions , like the English thatched cottage under a spreading chestnut tree . |
| 17 | The coordinate singularities on the hypersurfaces and may thus either be quasiregular singularities if the curvature tensor on these surfaces is bounded , or they must be non-scalar curvature singularities if the curvature components become unbounded . |
| 18 | They may also predict stereotypical roles and relationships of participants , or they can be stereotypical text types , predicting plot structure or conversational development . |
| 19 | Doors can be solid wood , such as oak , pine , cherry , or maple , for example , or they can be white ash or limed oak veneer , or even a hard-wearing laminate finish . |
| 20 | It may appear as padding to a fixed size due to software limitations or it may be wasted space at the end of tracks and overflow areas because the record that should have gone there was too large . |
| 21 | In Italy it is often found flavoured with crystallised fruits for eating as a dessert cheese , or it can be used plain for cooking , but mainly for desserts . |
| 22 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 23 | I 'll go and land on it now and I 'll be bloody pig sick ! |
| 24 | ‘ And yours will be positive changes , ’ he complimented her thoughtfully . |
| 25 | Everything outside the square brackets is a keyword , i.e. part of a standard word or phrase which forms the structure of the module header and which must be upper case . |
| 26 | For TV , he or she will have to analyse the scheduled programmes both of ITV and BBC to determine which ITV programmes appear to be good buys , and which will be poor ones , in relation to the rate card . |
| 27 | You 'll need to move to the farmhouse , Seb , and you 'll be wanting help about the place . ’ |
| 28 | Only ‘ superfine ’ and ‘ fine ’ varieties can carry the special Farmhouse cheese logo — so look out for this and you 'll be guaranteed quality cheese made to traditional high standards . |
| 29 | and she 'd be wanting uniform ones |
| 30 | All she needed was a pair of shooters slung from her hip and she 'd be little Annie Oakley , she thought derisively , reaching instead for her favourite Navajo belt . |