Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven regional electricity companies have also announced their support for the scheme , which may eventually be part funded by small surcharges on customers ' bills . |
| 2 | In areas where conditions are favourable , in seasons of good weather , productivity of vegetation and insects may locally be very high . |
| 3 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 4 | But his new job as campaign adviser to Paddy Ashdown may only be marginally easier . |
| 5 | This perfect little mountain may only be just over 2,000 feet in height , but going up the south face , in my state of physical unfitness , you really know that you have had a climb , and regret all the long , glass-happy evenings of days past . |
| 6 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 7 | Although a child like Matthew clearly shows abnormal behaviour , others with hyperkinetic syndrome may only be mildly affected . |
| 8 | It must be obvious that ‘ local interpretation ’ may only be vaguely conceptualised . |
| 9 | The Exquisite Fairy Wrasse possesses a beauty which may only be fully appreciated in the living fish . |
| 10 | if you 've got one bit that ca n't work without another bit , and the bits can be relatively cheap , say may only be about twenty P a bit , but if the twenty P bit does n't arrive to work with the other bit |
| 11 | This information can often be important for assessing the client 's motivation : they may only be there to please their doctor . |
| 12 | Secret processes of manufacture provide obvious examples , but innumerable other pieces of information are capable of being business secrets , though the secrecy of some information may only be short lived . |
| 13 | Generic social work with the general population in closely knit communities may obviously be best achieved through small , patch-based teams ; but no organizational arrangement is universally valid irrespective of context and it is damaging when fashion seems to dictate otherwise . |
| 14 | Working class marriages may perhaps be best considered as economic and emotional support systems . |
| 15 | However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process . |
| 16 | Armed with this perspective , library staff may perhaps be more likely to respond to the specious logic of their political masters , eager to turn an honest penny as long as it will cause controversy and save money from the Westminster rate-cappers . |
| 17 | It may perhaps be more difficult to alarm him than it would be to alarm the vulnerable persons whom the offence is principally designed to protect . |
| 18 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 19 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 20 | There is nothing in the notion of oppositeness , for instance , which dictates that there should necessarily be only a finite number of opposite pairs in a language . |
| 21 | You must merely be very careful of your notes , which will eventually represent much investment of time and labour . |
| 22 | Since many of the acts penalised are likely to amount to offensive conduct within the terms of section 5 , it is to be regretted that the opportunity was not taken to examine this jurisprudential anachronism which , although it no longer carries a power of arrest , should perhaps be either modernised or repealed in its entirety . |
| 23 | His final recommendation , therefore , was that evaluation should become a continuous process in which all faculties and departments should be involved ; that it should examine teaching and learning in all year groups ; but that it should perhaps be less wide-ranging and more focused than this first effort . |
| 24 | In taking this view we are not denying that the loss of liberty may actually be necessary in a few extreme cases and this should only be where the child presents a significant danger to him or herself or where there is a significant risk of major further offending and severe damage to community . |
| 25 | The chair looks better to me if the seat is wider at the front than at the back , but the front of the seat should only be slightly wider than the top of the back . |
| 26 | The surveys now indicated that the gap between the two lines should only be approximately 90 metres . |
| 27 | Fully conforming to British safety and design standards , its features include a low-battery signal , to tell you when the battery needs replacing ( which should only be once a year ) , and it comes complete with a five-year warranty and full instructions on use . |
| 28 | He had dealt with her honestly , not as with a mere woman , one who must necessarily be only on the fringes of her menfolk 's concerns . |
| 29 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 30 | erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does |