Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it 's irresponsible to store radioactive waste where it can be a public danger and a safety risk . |
| 2 | Check the general safety of the room , that a lamp or piece of furniture has not been moved where it could be a hazard . |
| 3 | He repeated his uncle 's announcement and added peremptorily that swift compliance was required or it would be the worse for Gilsland . |
| 4 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 5 | Which pathway is chosen may be historical accident , or it may be a matter of more deliberate planning by chemists . |
| 6 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 7 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 8 | Either a point q in the b -boundary may be a regular boundary point if the space-time can be embedded in a larger space-time such that the Riemann tensor is C r and q is an interior point in , or it may be a singular boundary point if the space-time is not extendable through q in a way . |
| 9 | Or it may be a property of its extreme youth . |
| 10 | The burrow , on the other hand , may be just one section of a warren or it may be a single burrow system which is much smaller than a warren and exists in isolation from other rabbit holes . |
| 11 | A poll tax may be ‘ a tax levied on every person ; a capitation or head-tax ’ ( Oxford English Dictionary ) or it may be a tax related in some way to the right to vote . |
| 12 | It may be only the occasional small amount for a short time , or it may be a larger sum over a lengthy period . |
| 13 | It may be just a part time book-keeper or it may be a large department with frequent visits from outside chartered accountants and auditors . |
| 14 | Or it may be a question of choices . |
| 15 | But a lot of people buy a second hand car privately , and there are pages of these in the Nottingham Evening Post every day you know where people are paying a few hundred pounds , or it may be a few thousand pounds , for a second hand car . |
| 16 | Or it may be a situation in which the conditions of jurisdiction are open-textured or subjective , in the sense described above , and the courts wish to know whether there was evidence to justify the action taken . |
| 17 | It may be a change in government expenditure , it may be a change in the quantity of money , or it may be a change in some other variable . |
| 18 | A kitchen tends to fall into one of three categories depending on its physical limitations and your life pattern : it may be designed purely as a work room when all the other family activities go on in other rooms ; or it may be a room where the work is done and some or all family meals are taken ; or finally it may bc the real centre of the house , where work is done , meals are taken and where the family congregates . |
| 19 | This back-arc zone may of a large marginal basin separating the intra-oceanic island arc from an adjacent continent , or it may be a more complex feature containing one or more remnant arcs , separated from the volcanic arc and each other by interarc basins . |
| 20 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 21 | or It may be a binary number with bit-7 set ( 128 added to the number ) . |
| 22 | This may be in the form of small g individual work , the whole class working together , and involve the use of multi-media resources or it may be a arrangement . |
| 23 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 24 | Your Batfish may swim on its side at night because it has lost orientation with the tank 's bottom , or it may be an instinctive camouflaging technique . |
| 25 | More specifically , it may be the acoustics or the positioning of the seats or the stage , or it may be the ‘ coldness ’ of cement walls or the seediness of crumbling old ones . |
| 26 | Or it may be the elementary idea of putting the same number of matches into a matchbox ( it used to be 50 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may be the choice of words or it may be the respect that is accorded to the disapprover . |
| 29 | This may be the secant modulus , which is the slope of a line drawn from the origin to the stress-strain curve at a given strain ; or it may be the tangent modulus , which is the slope of the tangent to the stress-strain curve at the given strain . |
| 30 | For example , the adverb well in He speaks well of you may be equivalent to an adverb in French Il a très bien parlé de vous or it may be the equivalent of a noun , Il a dit du bien de vous . |