Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was noted in chapter 4 with respect to recent work on the hau , by embodying ancestral links objects may be the basis of an individual 's present social identity such that loss of the object would itself constitute a danger to the legitimacy and viability or the personage and the group he or she leads ( Wiener 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 3 | Attachment may be the result of friction , locking soil into irregularities in the surface or electrostatic attraction where soil and surface have opposite charges , or from chemical interaction between soil and surface made possible by a change of state of both at the interface . |
| 4 | Competition and struggle may be the watchwords but this does not necessarily imply outright hostility . |
| 5 | However , the value of gloves and other barriers to direct contact with potentially infected body fluids should not be underestimated , since unapparent inoculation through non-intact skin may be a source of infection in some settings . |
| 6 | AND FROM THE RACISM THAT SADLY AFFLICTS US ALL AND LEADS WHITE PEOPLE TO ASSOCIATE INFERIORITY AND DARKNESS , KURTEN 'S RECONSTRUCTION MAKES MORE SENSE , SINCE NEANDERTHALS LIVED IN GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND LIGHT SKIN MAY BE AN ADAPTATION TO LIFE IN MIDDLE TO HIGH LATITUDES . |
| 7 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 8 | These gentle creamy cleansers may be the answer . |
| 9 | Goody himself provides a telling example of how ‘ scientific ’ progress may be the product of social forces which , in themselves , do not represent the kind of scholarly community and logical thought which he extols . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the Duchess of York 's mother , Mrs Susan Barrantes , denied giving a sensational interview about her daughter , which included claims that the Duchess may be the victim of an ‘ establishment plot ’ . |
| 11 | A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness . |
| 12 | A single photo-cell on the retina may be an input to several nodes . |
| 13 | A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel . |
| 14 | This comprises the process of levelling , which involves the loss of marked and/or minority variants ; and the process of simplification , by means of which even minority forms may be the ones to survive if they are linguistically simpler , in the technical sense , and through which even forms and distinctions present in all the contributory dialects may be lost . |
| 15 | The high result for the Estate Agents ' text may be a reflection the commonality between Estate Agents ' literature and other genres contained in the LOB Corpus . |
| 16 | A case in point might be certain subjects related to medicine , such as optics and pharmacy ; the growing number of women studying these disciplines may be the consequence of the flexibility of optics and pharmacy jobs in enabling women to take time off to have children . |
| 17 | Such patterns may be the result of Sisyphean fitness and not represent irreversible tendencies to speciation , i.e. the formation of ‘ populations ’ of plant genotypes , representing the best available to arrive at a particular point under the prevailing biotic and physical features at any one particular time . |
| 18 | But without the answers to such questions faith may be no match for doubt . |
| 19 | The faith may be the product of conditioning , or it may be the fruit of symbolic bedazzlement , but in neither case is it in any significant degree the work of reason , judgement , or active participation in the processes of rule . |
| 20 | Organisational change may be the result of these kinds of issue rather than in response to some logic of organisational design . |
| 21 | These lonely hours may be the time he reaches his deepest despair . |
| 22 | The gates would have been locked , and the porter may be a drunkard but he has his orders . ’ |
| 23 | ( John Mortimer may be the exception that proves the rule . ) |
| 24 | By contrast , the stance of doing is concerned with acting upon those phenomena to bring about change , although the capacity to react or respond to phenomena may be a precondition of successful action in some cases , for example in the diagnosis of human problems and situations , as Ryan ( 1984 ) points out in relation to medicine . |
| 25 | Pus may not form , and so the only signs may be the red , hot and painful mass which , combined with loss of function , defines ‘ inflammation ’ in any part of the body . |
| 26 | This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history . |
| 27 | Where there are several Caribbean-born individuals , or others like Rastafarians who put especially high value on the use of Creole , then Creole may be the language of preference for the whole conversation . |
| 28 | Sheep dipping in the UK is no longer to be compulsory , in the light of evidence that the organophosphorous pesticides used in the annual dip may be a health hazard . |
| 29 | Although this relationship is complex , mortality reduction may be a prerequisite to a decline in fertility . " |
| 30 | The formula framework promises a rational approach but , in fact , the contrary may be the case . |