Example sentences of "but it [modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , legal aid is not available for libel , but it may be granted for malicious falsehood . |
| 2 | This is usually about 18 days after infection , but it may be delayed for several months when arrested larval development occurs . |
| 3 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 4 | The decision is controversial in its reasoning , but it may be explained as an attempt by the judiciary to improve the workability of an ageing legal structure . |
| 5 | The mental element with respect to unlawfulness remains to be determined , but it may be assumed after Morgan that it would be intention or recklessness . |
| 6 | ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions . |
| 7 | There is a statutory provision about the position of arbitrators : under s1 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , the authority of an arbitrator is said to be irrevocable , but it may be revoked with leave of the court . |
| 8 | if the planning if if the requirements fall much below the demographic requirements , the implication is that migration could be controlled but it may be controlled by a mechanism which I do n't think anybody really wants and that 's by stimulating out migration in North Yorkshire . |
| 9 | Digestion is not frequent ( 5–13 per cent ) , but it may be distributed over the whole enamel surface , where it appears as slight to moderate pitting ( Fig. 3.22 D , E ) . |
| 10 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 11 | But it may be taken for granted that nowadays the ‘ moral majority ’ is not a real ( electoral ) majority , just as a ‘ moral victory ’ ( the traditional euphemism for defeat ) is not a real victory . |
| 12 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 13 | Many would hesitate to use vasopressin in view of the high incidence of ischaemic heart disease in this age group , but it may be combined with nitroglycerin when the harmful vasconstrictor side effects are less common . |
| 14 | Er there 's a book , which I do n't think is on your list but it might be called By Thorn and Henley er which might be worth looking at . |
| 15 | But it might be salvaged by the damnatio , to which that restriction did not apply , and which would impose on the heir an obligation to pay the object or its value . |
| 16 | The justifiability rule has yet to receive widespread judicial consideration in the context of education , but it might be expected to be applied more strictly . |
| 17 | And one of the things they 're going to do is to centralize the switchboard that it 'll , you wo n't actually ring me up at all , you might ring the , the telephone number for Newark but it 'll be answered at headquarters and they 'll put you through . |
| 18 | The train she was in was one bound for south London , as perhaps all were , but it would be reached via the Bank instead of Tottenham Court Road , describing a loop through the City to do so . |
| 19 | So a Pacific as defined by such minds might fall within the appropriate longitudes and latitudes , but it would be riddled with holes , a discontinuous mess , a collection of unconnected pieces of sea and land established principally to prove an argument about an entity of which they make up only a fraction . |
| 20 | I suppose we we would run the Independent as a professional publication , but it would be run at a loss for a very long time before you could turn it around . |
| 21 | The budget would still be a tight one , but it would be geared to maintaining business investment as we approach the post-1992 European single market , and limiting the effects of the recession on business . |
| 22 | A later chapter in this book suggests that there could be a ‘ religious ’ purpose to conflict , but it would be directed against crime organised on a global scale , and as defined in that chapter . |
| 23 | Transit time was not measured but it would be expected to be shorter . |
| 24 | Clearly , the call for increased vigilance is a timely one , but it should be extended to the monitoring of patterns of resistance to single as well as to multiple drugs , and it should give extra attention to resistance in traditional high risk groups such as immigrants as well as in HIV patients . |
| 25 | It is not a conflict which will lead inevitably to problems , but it should be recognised at an early stage and rectified by the Government . |
| 26 | Ambition is a good quality , of course , but it should be tempered with reason and some patience . |
| 27 | I have given two examples of the use of planned ignoring ; but it should be borne in mind that ignoring is not an all-purpose disciplinary approach . |
| 28 | These are questions which history departments must pose for themselves but it should be borne in mind that it is at the end of the key stage that a final assessment will be required . |
| 29 | It was horrible , and I 'm sorry it happened , but it should be kept in some kind of perspective . ’ |
| 30 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |