Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the subject enters the political arena and becomes politically controversial , we assume an elective silence on the political issues and confine ourselves , if we intervene at all , to constitutional or legal questions or views on practical matters affecting the law and its administration where our views may naturally be expected and sought . |
| 2 | As external forms , however , objects may also be independent of the interpretation of any one particular group , and their consistency as a material presence may belie the actual variety of meanings they evoke . |
| 3 | These languages and their related cultures may also be studied as components of the MA(General) . |
| 4 | Some societies and cultures may indeed be more pleasant to live in , just as some seem more exciting and others nastier . |
| 5 | Coins may also be acquired from various sources ; local finds or gifts of collectors may give very different pictures . |
| 6 | Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors . |
| 7 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 8 | However , as explained at page 32 below , dealings on exchanges which are not recognised investment exchanges ( RIEs ) or designated investment exchanges ( DIEs ) may in fact be treated as " off-exchange " for the purposes of the COB Rules ; moreover , qualifying futures contracts may still be within the money market exemption ( see page 24 below ) provided that they are not bought or sold , or expressed to be as bought or sold , on an RIE . |
| 9 | Attitudes may well be negative if employees have cause to believe that after moving to a strange area , they may face redundancy . |
| 10 | Helping the patient to modify such attitudes may sometimes be necessary before he is able to change his behaviour or effectively pursue tasks necessary to achieve his chosen goals . |
| 11 | Shortages of skilled manpower and management skills may well be immediately traceable to these developments but they are not , by any means , wholly attributable to them . |
| 12 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 13 | Voluntary and private services and clubs may also be of use . |
| 14 | I am convinced that pupil-profiling alone can not be the way forward , even if profiles may profitably be used in conjunction with other methods of assessment . |
| 15 | Certain products may simply be more ‘ fashionable ’ in some patches than others and DNs and/or doctors may be influenced in their choice of dressing by their colleagues and/or local pharmaceutical company representatives . |
| 16 | The Act requires the resignation notice and statement to be delivered to the company 's registered office — which in many cases may well be the address of its resigning auditor ! |
| 17 | The nested technique is often helpful , and eventually the products of polymerase chain reactions may even be analysed by Southern blotting to gain further absolute sensitivity . |
| 18 | Module headers may also be added to existing software , allowing it to be brought rapidly under LIFESPAN control . |
| 19 | Generally these four factors work together in combination , though syllables may sometimes be made prominent by means of only one or two of them . |
| 20 | Employers may also be entitled to do this under an implied term . |
| 21 | Sweetcorn , chickpeas or maples may well be the going bait and it could then be an advantage to fish a couple of very large jumbo tiger nuts of half a brazil nut over the top of the baited area . |
| 22 | Chromatic substitution notes in C major would be as shown in Example 101 , again showing possible resolutions on the notes substituted : These chromatic notes may alternatively be written as C , E♭ , G♭ , G , and B♭ ( or A ) , at the composer 's discretion . |
| 23 | Adorno 's criteria force him to see , for example , blue notes as ‘ distortions ’ , pseudo-individual embellishments of ‘ correct ’ pitches ; but blue notes may conceivably be part of a different pitch system with its own correctness . |
| 24 | It this way the decisions of courts may frequently be predicted . |
| 25 | The projects may then be ranked numerically by merit number . |
| 26 | The projects may then be ranked numerically by merit number . |
| 27 | Now that policy and I think think I 'll it out , The proposals for industry and commerce that are not in accordance with the relevant policies of this plan would not normally be permitted but special provision for very large projects may occasionally be made in exceptional circumstances provided that , and there are three criteria , There would be substantial proven employment or other benefits to county residents , the proposal can not reasonably be implemented on land proposed in local plans for industrial or commercial development bearing in mind the undertakings operational requirements , and thirdly , that there are no overriding planning objections . |
| 28 | Common lanterns may easily be adapted to the purpose . ’ |
| 29 | These queries may either be issued using the Structured relational database Query Language ( SQL ) or one of the proprietary report writers provided with the selected relational database . |
| 30 | Taxes may therefore be classified as either direct or indirect , according to the administrative arrangement for their collection . |