Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 2 | The DoE may be clear as to what ‘ planning policy recognises ’ , but the reality differs considerably from the official statement . |
| 3 | The level of the average British male may be 6 but given the incidence of heart disease in Scotland , perhaps the average is not to be desired . |
| 4 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 5 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 6 | The police do not always allow useless speculation to grow when an obvious link may be misleading . |
| 7 | Cultures may be traditional , achieving or affluent , since culture is a dynamic phenomenon . |
| 8 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 9 | Apart from that , one of your law lecturers may be able to help . |
| 10 | Much incidental mathematical experience may be involved in the organisation and preparation , as well as the clearing away . |
| 11 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 12 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 13 | If these provisions are not adhered to , ensuing contracts may be unenforceable and criminal sanctions may follow . |
| 14 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 15 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 16 | Christie may be new Falkirk chairman |
| 17 | If the spraying should stop , as can happen with blockages or burst pipes , the freezing effect travels inwards and the damage may be greater than if no precautions had been taken . |
| 18 | Fortunately , much of this is reversible in recovery , although sometimes , as in encephalopathy ( " wet brain " ) , the damage may be permanent . |
| 19 | The damage may be permanent , and treatment is non-existent . |
| 20 | It seems that the requirement of special damage may be satisfied by potential damage , and it may be possible to rephrase the requirement in terms of the plaintiff having a special interest in or concern with the challenged action . |
| 21 | The student can not stop the programme and ask questions and discussions may be difficult to organize ; the instruction tends to place the student in a rather passive situation . |
| 22 | For though there is a danger that a broad curriculum may be superficial , containing nothing but a passing acquaintance with a variety of different subjects , and though this danger must be constantly guarded against , the purpose of the generalized , ‘ disinterested ’ curriculum is quite different . |
| 23 | Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is , clearly , also very similar . |
| 24 | ( An even higher pension base may be applicable where the cash limit of £71,400 does not apply to old style retirement annuity contracts ) . |
| 25 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 26 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 27 | Continuous salt spray is not a feature of sheltered shores and , except where fucoid seaweeds offer shelter ( Menge , I 976 ) , desiccation may be significant . |
| 28 | If you convert part of your home into an office or into self-contained accommodation on which you charge rent , that part of your home which is deemed to be a ‘ business ’ may be separately assessed — and CGT may be payable when you come to sell it . |
| 29 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |
| 30 | As Working Paper 43 stressed , the work of the library resource centre requires different skills , but these skills may be present in different ways in different individuals ; many people can learn and practice at least two . |