Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 2 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 3 | There must always be feedback and explanation to the person and their carer and referrer , with a clear means for the user to challenge decisions if they are not satisfied . |
| 4 | The keynote should always be flexibility and adaptability . |
| 5 | For elderly people , there must also be concern that emphasis on reducing waiting times by contracting for services non-locally will impose serious hardship on those unable or unwilling to travel . |
| 6 | He may sometimes be consultant and analyst ; sometimes investigator and policeman ; but he must also be negotiator and judge ; inspector , educator , and public relations representative . |
| 7 | They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact . |
| 8 | However , since the decision of the European Court of Justice in Francovich v. Republic of Italy ( Case C 6/90 and C 9/90 ) [ 1992 ] I.R.L.R. 84 ( judgment delivered on 1 November 1991 ) , there must now be doubt whether the Bourgoin case was correctly decided . |
| 9 | It must really be business that had brought Bunny here as it was n't his sort of pub . |
| 10 | There must therefore be discussion and compromise in order to achieve an overall optimum result . |
| 11 | Where there is no dispute about this there may nevertheless be disagreement as to the nature and level of service to be provided . |
| 12 | It might only be hours before the police start questioning you ! ’ |
| 13 | So it 'll soon be Easter as well wo n't it ? |
| 14 | Er , would be ready for this Wednesday , but I said it 'll probably be Saturday that we pick it up . |
| 15 | There might also be problems if there is any disagreement between teachers and advisers over the agenda of the evaluation or the report produced . |
| 16 | It might even be arsenic and he would be dead in ten seconds flat . |
| 17 | She was now faced with an arduous journey into a remote country where there might well be anarchy when Menelik died . |
| 18 | It was some moments before it occurred to any of them that it might well be Chris or the tardy boy from the bistro , harmlessly appealing for admission to his promised evening of jollity and sustenance . |
| 19 | erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception . |
| 20 | There may still be time before they get to him … why do n't you have another go at persuading him ? |
| 21 | I 'll tell you what I 'd rather be Intercity than Central Services in terms of the market we 've got . |
| 22 | I do n't believe that any of the three could exist , or would want to exist independently , for the synthesis is absolutely perfect , the balance so delicate , that the next step up could only be Rapture and Heaven . |
| 23 | These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production . |
| 24 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
| 25 | Well er sometimes it might be porridge but it was usually just er the and maybe er boiled eggs and er oatcakes and and your dinner 'd probably be tatties and pork or something of that kind . |
| 26 | Householders could also be losers if they need to call repairmen . |
| 27 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 28 | The movement of this reminds me of er stage set and the figures on the bench could almost be actors and actresses and with the figure at the bottom here , the male at the bottom , well its not quite at bottom , tucked away at the side there , he , he , he looks like erm , like a harlequin figure , maybe a mischief maker , er I , I felt there was a lot of fun in this painting and a lot of erm , er gravado and , and stage specs , that kind of thing , so this poem is called for obvious reasons People Of The Nile , and I 'll read it twice , probably be the best way Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing Chinese whispers , so I , I , I quite wanted to give that er a , a contemporary updated feel , erm , I read that again for the people who may of just seen the picture at the back People Of The Nile , Ancient people drawn on a vase , tell a tale , warn a friend , man dressed in red holds back a curtain , over hears and tells , they are gossiping people , playing chinese whispers , erm , the next one , we 'll have to put you on wheels I think |
| 29 | But afterwards he felt depressed , and a bit ill , and there was a nagging pain in his chest which could either be indigestion or the start of a heart attack . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |