Example sentences of "[subord] it [modal v] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wall-painting of c .1160 in the chapel of St Anselm [ q.v. ] at Canterbury Cathedral , which shows St Paul bitten by a viper on the island of Malta , has been attributed to Hugo , although it may be the work of a follower . |
| 2 | Although married Anglican priests have been accepted into the Catholic priesthood , no precedent exists for a bishop , ‘ although it may be the price humility demands ’ . |
| 3 | Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language . |
| 4 | Yeah that 's exactly the same as what you 're I was trying to do before so it 'd be the equivalent of that . |
| 5 | The KGB were not capable of coordinating such protests he said , so it must be the work of British intelligence and the CIA . |
| 6 | This reading can not be explained by contextual modulation , so it must be the result of selection from a set of discrete possibilities . |
| 7 | Khan and the Husayn twins were making offensive gargling noises while dancing round a statue that looked to Robert as if it might be the Lord Vishnu ; behind them , Mahmud did his Native American impression . |
| 8 | I was wondering last night if it might be the hand of fate . |
| 9 | One of them was a slim pamphlet that looked as if it might be the catalogue . |
| 10 | You know I was wai I thought oh I wonder if it 'll be the Orient Express , yeah . |
| 11 | We actually said we should , we , the body corporate should , erm , I have some , I if , if it should be the county secretary , I believe it should be in consultation with the county supplies officer . |
| 12 | Hick 's first innings 64 looked as if it could be the Test breakthrough England have been so patiently waiting for . |
| 13 | Well I wonder if it could be the brake fluid cos that 's |
| 14 | Margaret Irwin " paid three visits to Edinburgh to address meetings at the invitation of the Typographical Association " , and the STA Annual Report of 1898 claimed that the new society " bids fair to succeed ; if it will be the means , as anticipated , of improving the position of the male comp [ sic , my italics ] there will be no lack of well-wishers " . |
| 15 | I mention this cos it could be THE way for list members to get their tickets from the LUFC ticket office , and avoid all that hopeless phoning . |
| 16 | This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me . |
| 17 | But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life . |
| 18 | But it 's something which you really should bear in mind , because it could be the difference between you getting a press release and , and not getting it in . |
| 19 | In contrast , if , for example , shares are issued to management with no voting rights and subsequently , with no prior agreement , it is resolved to add voting rights to these shares , this would be a chargeable event since it would be the removal of a restriction or the creation of a new right relating to the shares . |
| 20 | A difficulty of interpretation arises over the question whether it must be the constable who warns who effects the arrest . |
| 21 | But of course you 're not quite sure at nine and a half weeks which one she 'll go to most whether it will be the Newfoundland |
| 22 | and et all ( 362 , 355 & 359 ; 1993 showed that these organs ( among others ) are sites at which the virus multiplies during the often long latency period in AIDS , but more will have to be known of this process before it can be the basis of a routine assay . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the Greek system still has some way to travel before it will be the sort of political machine a post-cold-war democracy requires . |
| 24 | This meant a redistribution of income in the rural sector from the wealthy to the permanent workers , though it may be the case that there was a widening differential in incomes between permanent and temporary workers . |
| 25 | It looks as though it might be the fastening from a man 's cape . ’ |
| 26 | I wondered uneasily whether he would be able to see from my face that though it might be the truth , it was not the whole truth . |
| 27 | Though it will be the end of them both . |
| 28 | Well yes anything like that especially as it should be the shopping area . |
| 29 | It could be the answer for them all , just as it could be the answer for Len Seager . ’ |
| 30 | At one level , then , racism tends to be read as a kind of horrific soap opera in which the surface incidents are ever changing , but the underlying plot remains constant , generating one episode of discrimination after another , punctuated by atrocities which have no end even though paradoxically the final , cataclysmic outcome is never in doubt : for it will be the fire next time , the Armageddon which puts an end to chronic injustice , once and for all . |