Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 2 | It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive . |
| 3 | Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult , if not impossible , to eliminate . |
| 4 | Although the development of social skills may be somewhat impaired by the degree of mental handicap , this does not generally represent a major problem . |
| 5 | Strong attitudes may have formed by then and teaching of avoidance skills may be too late to immunise children effectively against the pressures to smoke . |
| 6 | The truth is that reporters are constantly swapping jobs and assignments and that your contacts may be away when you most need them . |
| 7 | The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘ megatrends ’ may be greatly exaggerated ; the outcome of some social and political conflicts may be wrongly estimated and some ‘ megatrends ’ may be omitted altogether , if they do not happen to slot into the chosen classification system . |
| 8 | Magazine profiles may be carefully written and prepared , though their facts are unlikely to be as thoroughly checked as in books . |
| 9 | Products may be adversely affected by exposure to atmospheric humidity but if this happens in the product in its sales pack , it indicates that the pack provides inadequate protection from the atmosphere . |
| 10 | The number of changes is too great to catalogue here , but one , in particular , is worthy of mention — liquid assets , which in some cases may be either fixed or current . |
| 11 | Combining both cases may be also useful for checking the consistency of both orders by superimposition and comparison of them . |
| 12 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 13 | That does not mean , however , that legal challenge is unimportant as part of a broader political strategy canvassing for change , only that the indirect effects of test cases may be more significant than any direct changes in the law brought about by them . |
| 14 | This is because it is quite possible that the laws in both cases may be much the same . |
| 15 | Such cases may be relatively infrequent , but they remind us that the core notion of voluntary obligations is the knowing undertaking of an obligation . |
| 16 | Classifying an event is a necessary first step to understanding it , and in many cases may be entirely adequate as an explanation . |
| 17 | Even though these cases may be comparatively rare , it would still appear that such high costs present a problem needing resolution if people are to have access to justice as and when needed . |
| 18 | In relational terms the behaviours involved in these four cases may be very different even within a single social context . |
| 19 | It is often difficult to show on the model precisely how the components interact ( eg by a transfer of information or resources ) , particularly when drawing high-level models where such interactions may be extremely complex . |
| 20 | Many requests may be very involved , with a number of individual statements . |
| 21 | Indeed , many British employers may be illegally discriminating against their part-time workers . |
| 22 | This is because employers may be more willing to concede worker demands and grant trade union recognition when any resultant higher labour costs can be passed on to their customers in the form of price increases . |
| 23 | With regard to crimes that are known about , the police and courts may be more lenient with female offenders . |
| 24 | Where such a sovereign state has been created by a grant of independence , the courts may be more reluctant to take back power in that they would have to recognise the political fact that the state in question is a foreign country and no longer part of the legal order of this country . |
| 25 | Your request for a statement of reasons may be either verbal or written . |
| 26 | In addition , applicants with high numbers of points awarded for medical reasons may be favourably treated . |
| 27 | Projects may be very practically based . |
| 28 | It is important that the Record Sheet be kept up-to-date in order that any queries may be readily resolved . |
| 29 | A bold plan of this sort directs its followers into unknown country where the statistical projections may be profoundly untrustworthy . |
| 30 | Non-standard forms may be much more widely tolerated — and , in some cases , preferred — when the language is spoken , informal and private . |