Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a particular form of notice is prescribed , failure to serve notice in the prescribed form will not generally invalidate the notice ( Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral v Lennards Ltd ( 1977 ) 35 P & CR 309 ) ; although where the timetable is tight and the landlord 's notice is required to state a rental figure it may be of the essence that the notice should do so ( Commission for New Towns v R Levy & Co [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 121 ) . |
| 2 | The hearer is being trusted to take a large share of the responsibility in imagining what it may be for the speaker to be past his youth , and the result is a wide range of weak implicatures . |
| 3 | Before I call the proposer and the seconder of the motion on the Loyal Address , it may be for the convenience of hon. Members if I inform the House that the proposed subjects for debate for the rest of this week and for next week are as follows : |
| 4 | We are all familiar with that quaint parliamentary phrase , ’ It may be for the convenience of Members ’ , and then some information is imparted that is often for anything but the convenience of hon. Members . |
| 5 | In other words , the hegemony of the social representation of science can not possibly be total , and there is even evidence that it may be on the wane . |
| 6 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 7 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 8 | If you did n't then it may be with the person that borrowed the equipment . |
| 9 | BUT as the 2.5 turbo does not have the best reputation , it may be worth a try . |
| 10 | But it is complicated and I er mean really for the average investor , unless you 're a non-taxpayer , because the in er the income from the gilts is gross , it may be worth er it may be worth a non-taxpayer holding gilts , and er getting a gross yield of maybe eight and a quarter , nine percent . |
| 11 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |
| 12 | It may be beyond the capacity of a 12- or 15-teacher secondary school , a 10-teacher middle school , a 10-teacher primary school or an 8-teacher first school . |
| 13 | With a large dog , like a Rottweiler , it may be beyond the capability of the new owner to dominate the newly acquired adult dog . |
| 14 | Silence is generally better than this , as it may be during a service . |
| 15 | When a person 's property is insufficient for payment of his debts , it would obviously be unfair that the creditors who first obtain judgement and execution should be paid in full , leaving nothing to those who may try to enforce their claims later ; nor is it desirable that a man should indefinitely remain under a load of debts which ( it may be through no fault of his own ) he is unable to meet . |
| 16 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 17 | It may be at the end of end of all this that you you are nevertheless convinced that there ought to be a policy . |
| 18 | BORINGLY familiar it may be as a measure the rise in the price of cigarettes in the latest budget gives me open , honest pleasure , though its smallness causes me disappointment . |
| 19 | If sales levels do increase , it may be as a result of increasing sales staff or decreasing profit margins . |
| 20 | Where the NFI is very important to the multinational , it may be in a position to exert total control . |
| 21 | If there is a point of similarity and comparison between the assemblies of these three countries , it may be in the influence and growing importance of their committee systems . |
| 22 | So a modern sexual dimorphism is explicable in terms of erm inter-male er conflict and it may be in the case of human beings er most of them are , for example the larger body weight of males that we saw when we looked at sexual dimorphism in human beings is probably explicable erm in terms of inter-male conflict like it is in chimpanzees . |
| 23 | However it may be in the trainee 's interests if integrated facilities are used throughout eg. the transfer of data from one application to another . |
| 24 | And where there is a stable and well established relationship between buyer and supplier , it may be in the interest of both to allow the supplier to build up an accurate sales forecast . |
| 25 | It may be in the interest of neither of those two persons to do so . |
| 26 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 27 | It is in fact surprising that landlords are prepared to allow occupation of premises by members of the same group of companies as the tenant without a formal assignment , but needless to say it may be in the tenant 's best interests to try to include this provision if it is not initially incorporated in the lease . |
| 28 | It may be like a questionnaire , leaving the interviewer no discretion as to how to ask the questions or in what order . |
| 29 | And if anyone deserves a full house that night it should be as a tribute to all he 's done for the club . |
| 30 | The chairman of the education committee said ‘ If boys are to be turned into fairies and girls into butch young maids , it should be for the parent to decide and not the education authorities ’ ( TES 13.10.78 ) . |