Example sentences of "result [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result may be uncontrollable and either good or bad . |
| 2 | However , there is little doubt that people are not yet accustomed to the idea of paying fees and are tempted to avoid it even when the final result may be better . |
| 3 | The net result may be neutral as Mr Lamont claims , but it does not look that way to the casual viewer who may as a result end the day in a gloomier mood than he began . |
| 4 | The eventual result may be new leadership for the personal-computer industry , or no clear leadership at all . |
| 5 | The result may be that , what a company had hoped to treat as a minor domestic matter which could be brushed under the carpet , is exposed to the harsh light of day . |
| 6 | Sir , — Although Conservative Central Office euphoria at the election result may be understandable , it nevertheless needs to recognise that this was achieved in spite of its lack lustre contribution to the electoral campaign . |
| 7 | The result may be alternative proposals at the start ( e.g. , Mig-15 , Yak-25 ) or reinsurance when things go awry in mid-course . |
| 8 | In such situations the equation is not the same in the case of the confidant and that of the third party and accordingly the result may be different . |
| 9 | While there is nothing funny about this situation , sometimes the result may be funny . |
| 10 | If this latter event occurs , the result may be difficult to distinguish from a stroke due to atheroma in these arteries . |
| 11 | If clients are confident in the conveyancer , they will be satisfied with the job , even if the result may be difficult to achieve . |
| 12 | The result may be nutrient deficiencies , toxic levels of metals , and a long-term drop in pH . |
| 13 | The result may be bizarre . |
| 14 | It is in the very nature of the entertainment offered by these machines that the result should be irregular , unforecastable . |
| 15 | By inspection of ( 3 ) we can see that a column vector xi postmultiplying ( 2I — A ) to give a null result must be such that unc vanishes ; two obvious vectors achieving this are{ 1,2,4 ) and{ 1,0 , — 1 } . |
| 16 | The result could be many hundreds of independents in the UK by the end of the next decade . |
| 17 | If the layer thins by even one per cent , the result could be 15,000 new cases of cancer annually in the US alone . |
| 18 | In Wales there was not much doubt that the result would be negative . |
| 19 | Liberalism was to place the centralized university system under state control : the result would be that , while theology could not be studied as a subject , professors could be expelled for their religious opinions . |
| 20 | Forecasts predicted that the overall election result would be close . |
| 21 | Off-exchange perhaps means any transaction which is not on-exchange ( as defined ) and , if so , it includes transactions on an exchange which is not an RIE or DIE ; this result would be similar to the money market exemption in s 43 of the FSA , since that includes transactions on any exchange that is not an RIE . |
| 22 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 23 | The result would be higher costs for students ( and their employers ) than if there were only one set of examinations . |
| 24 | If we were setting a nursery rhyme to music , it would be quite appropriate to use the verse metre and rhythms also in the music ; the result would be simple and naïve . |
| 25 | The plaintiffs submit that if maladministration includes the provision by an employee of a negligent valuation , then the result would be anomalous because , as is common ground , the provision of such a report by an independent surveyor could not be maladministration . |
| 26 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
| 27 | But this test examines control of search location by both sets of cues and the result would be trivial if the context cues are of primary importance . |
| 28 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 29 | This work must be well organised and error-free on the night or the result will be total failure . |
| 30 | As with any privatisation , there will be concern that the result will be higher charges and fewer jobs . |