Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are occasions when doing-it-yourself may be less risk-prone . |
| 2 | The consequences of fire in hospitals and other health care premises can be especially serious because of the difficulties and dangers associated with the emergency evacuation of patients , many of whom may be highly dependent . |
| 3 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 4 | The types of functions allocated between them may be equally haphazard . |
| 5 | Social and practical situations are interactive and pupils ' competence in them may be quite different from their abilities with pen and paper alone . |
| 6 | Branch plants in regions far from head office may be more vulnerable to closure , while the more routine production work which is carried out in them may be more vulnerable to automation than the work done centrally . |
| 7 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
| 8 | If certain organisational features , their dependence on the human resource and their national recognition are all points in common , differences between them may be more marked , more extensive and more culturally deep rooted . |
| 9 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 10 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
| 11 | Everyone must be equally aware of the values and expectations of a successful school . |
| 12 | Some of them must be near half your age . |
| 13 | But then she added : ‘ They 're all very plain and I reckon that some of them must be over 60 ! ’ |
| 14 | I suppose when a very young infant is adopted , the temptation to the parents to pretend that the child was born to them must be very great . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 16 | I do not consider this ethical in treatment , as I believe that everyone should be fully cognizant of what is happening at each and every stage . |
| 17 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 18 | All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres . |
| 19 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
| 20 | I may be rather naïve for the big city , but I 'm learning fast . |
| 21 | I equally do n't want to sail into something that is er pretty undesirable and as my Noble Friend Lord Boyd-Carpenter says if we do that then almost certainly I do n't know I may be completely wrong , I 've got enormous faith in the my Right Honourable from my Noble Friend the Chief Whip and even more f faith in all my friends beh behind me whom I know will er go in , in the right direction because they think so erm superb , but My Lords er I would obviously like to see whether there is any way in which we can bridge this divide . |
| 22 | I may be completely wrong . |
| 23 | I may be downright wicked . |
| 24 | ’ I hate to say this , Mr. Kopek , but I think I may be too old to start all over again on something as new as this . |
| 25 | Why is it it seems to me also , and I may be totally wrong here , but it seems people who are least likely to look after themselves are the ones who want to have animals ? |
| 26 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
| 27 | I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally . |
| 28 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 29 | I hope that I may be so lucky . |
| 30 | I 'm probably quite wrong about that , but you know , when I think of Matisse and Giacometti and people like that , I ca n't compare them ; I think they fall very much below I may be quite wrong about this below the qualities of Picasso , because I think Picasso has such a very universal sense of things . |