Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that part of our role in the future — to use Michael Grade 's phrase — will be to keep everyone else honest — to make sure there is a commitment to telling those major stories that matter . |
| 2 | However it may be that expansion of the business goes beyond the reasonable expectation of the parties ; in which case it may be necessary for the covenantor to renegotiate the ambit of the restraint . |
| 3 | Well it may be that type of a dog Jean . |
| 4 | It is noted that the diagnosis in two of the patients who died was hepatocellular carcinoma and it may be that referral of these patients was precluded because of this . |
| 5 | It may be that deletion of the remaining wild type p53 allele is also required before mutant p53 and K-rase exert their cooperative effect . |
| 6 | It may be that thinking of his own fragile balance between goodness and a propensity to go wrong , or thinking of the sins of others with compassion , will be salutary . |
| 7 | And although it may be one means of looking at the site , it is not an essential part of determining greenbelt function . |
| 8 | It may be this kind of experience that led some Minoans to submit willingly to sacrifice . |
| 9 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 10 | And I think , instead of pupil comment it should be some sort of joint say . |
| 11 | Well it must be one heck of a me er noises . |
| 12 | It must be some kind of joke . |
| 13 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 14 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 15 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 16 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've heard that it might be some test of our will near the end of my presidency , but those F-16s sent the message to him pretty clearly . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It might be some sort of weather , ’ said Angalo . |
| 19 | Halzman half suggested it might be some sort of timing device . |
| 20 | It might be any sort of compound , but a lot of evidence was accumulating that peptides , i.e. compounds containing a chain or ring of amino acids , frequently occurred in specific parts of the brain and had specific functions as local or systemic hormones . |
| 21 | It could be any source of information within that application . |
| 22 | It could be any number of things . |
| 23 | ‘ You think it could be some kind of viral infection ? ’ |
| 24 | You think it could be some sort of timing device ? ’ |
| 25 | It could be three quarters of an hour . |
| 26 | Often in the married couple 's social life , it would be one member of that partnership who was the particular friend of , say , another couple . |
| 27 | If the fixture list is so crowded it would be one way of freeing some space . |
| 28 | I had no desire to go out , but it would be one way of getting through the evening . |
| 29 | It would be another link of the chain which bound Sam and me together . |
| 30 | There was no such thing as possession ; and even if there was , it would be those lumps of meat in the turret that were infested with demons , not me . |