Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] be [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may even be possible that house prices have merely adjusted upwards to meet the extra spending power of those obtaining mortgages with tax relief attached . |
| 2 | While harm may sometimes be direct and visible in the regulatory arena , it may also be vague and amorphous , gaining in severity by accumulation . |
| 3 | It may also be relevant that the terrorist bombing campaign appeared , for the first time for some years , to be targeting shopping areas directly , as well as widening the net outside London . |
| 4 | ( It may also be relevant that Corinth , as recent finds show , used lead for public inscriptions at early dates : Arch . |
| 5 | It may also be relevant where the vendor is a company and the purchaser requires warranties from the individual directors . |
| 6 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 7 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 8 | It may also be true that ‘ ease of use ’ can influence the quality of work done and the effectiveness of a GIS as a decision support system . |
| 9 | That is , it will be true , if there is no other causal circumstance for b on hand , and no alternative for a , that If B & C , even if X , still A. To speak informally , in terms of the example , the hot coffee together with other things guaranteed dissolved sugar , but it may also be true that the dissolved sugar , together with ( different ) other things , guaranteed the hot coffee . |
| 10 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 11 | It may also be true that social and market changes may " filter down " from the higher social classes ( such as the AB 's in the UK ) who are often first to perceive the need or desirability for a particular change . |
| 12 | This evidence for weighing gold shows how the coin was not being used as currency , and it may also be significant that many of the balances date to the period when the debasement of the gold coin was at its most serious . |
| 13 | It may also be important that the two most impersonal writers of these three , Walter Hilton and the Cloud-author , were both almost certainly professional religious and thus already established in a tradition of self-effacement . |
| 14 | It may well be significant that the earliest subscription libraries were founded in America in the 1730s . |
| 15 | It may well be true that there is little evidence of a widespread parochial anti-clericalism in the early sixteenth century , if by that we mean an endemic lay hostility towards the local priesthood . |
| 16 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 17 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 18 | I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth |
| 19 | It may already be evident that the stylistics of embellishment has much in common with the stylistics of self-reference , as both can involve the idea of deviation from some kind of standard . |
| 20 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 21 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 22 | It may however be relevant where the vendor is a partnership in which case each partner will be asked to provide the warranties and , in such circumstance , the purchaser will want them to be given on a joint and several basis . |
| 23 | Even when intervention is compatible with official pay restraint policy , it may still be covert since politicians may not wish to take public responsibility for influencing the outcome of a specific case and prefer to see the opprobrium attached to management . |
| 24 | It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices . |
| 25 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 26 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |
| 27 | Angioplasty as a primary procedure has very limited application , and it may only be appropriate where the patient sustains an acute coronary occlusion when in close proximity to a centre with highly experienced and immediately available angioplasty expertise . |
| 28 | For those who live at the home of British Motor-racing , it may sometimes be noisy and congested and it may take time to be served in the local shop . |
| 29 | It may sometimes be necessary or desirable in certain contexts to specify plurality or duality in languages which do not normally specify such information because they do not have a category of number or a dual form . |
| 30 | In other words , if there is to be a contribution from taxes to balance the operating account , then it should be explicit and calculation of it should also be explicit as should a contribution from Housing to the General Fund . |