Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 2 | Or social activities and institutions may be an important adjunct of study — as with many professional courses . |
| 3 | LOSING your favourite gems may be a personal disaster . |
| 4 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ? |
| 5 | Devolution of responsibility from central government to regional and district health authorities may be a good thing , but when this includes the collection and use of important NHS data it hampers monitoring of national programmes like that for modernising mental health care . |
| 6 | Flexibility and the location of ligand-binding sites close to the top of adhesion molecules may be a general feature of their organization . |
| 7 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 8 | But while the perceived effect of events on future plans may be a critical factor in the development of affective disorder , such general interpretations of events do not appear to offer much scope for intervention . |
| 9 | Unwritten rules may be a precarious basis on which to run a factory . |
| 10 | On the one hand , in a certain sense , all the elements which comprise X condition the tribunal 's power to decide upon Y. The statute says , explicitly or implicitly , if X you may or shall do Y. On the other hand , to accept that the reviewing courts should be the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of all the elements comprising the X factor would cause review to become very like appeal . |
| 11 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 12 | Temporary reduction in working hours should be a recognised means of enabling staff to cope with longer term difficulties . |
| 13 | This code , which is still adhered to , specifies that roofs must be made of slate , all woodwork must be white , and walls must be built in local stone or rendered white ; it also specifies that houses must be a certain distance apart . |
| 14 | Ideally this should be the same on all Guide installations , just as , for example , ideally the library of built-in functions for C compilers should be the same on every C installation . |
| 15 | The controversy that followed the publication of the Maastricht Treaty highlighted significant differences between and within member states over the extent to which the process of integration should proceed , and over whether the proposed union rather than individual member states should be the principal location for decision-making in the future . |
| 16 | British Telecom and the water authorities should be the first to be so referred . |
| 17 | All bathroom light switches should be the ceiling-mounted , pullcord kind — as should double-pole switches fitted to control an electric shower or a shower pump . |
| 18 | Search times should be the same because the same node structure can be used , but building times would probably be much greater for the dawg . |
| 19 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 20 | Bursts of non-deglutitive simultaneous contractions may be a normal oesophageal motility pattern |
| 21 | Guar bread 's twin features of higher fibre and fewer calories may be the best thing to have happened to the bread industry since sliced bread . |
| 22 | Other people prefer to take animals as sexual objects ( keeping pets may be a sublimated form of this ) . |
| 23 | A decision made in the light of wider considerations may be a better decision . |
| 24 | Minimally , the words should be the same words , presented in the same order . |
| 25 | Notebooks must be a constant presence . |
| 26 | Though , come to think of it , anyone who goes rushing around with a child or , worse , a straw bale on their shoulders must be a few bricks short of a stable . |
| 27 | The body of the tool being black , the ground areas , the bevels , and gouge channels should be a light straw colour in this case . |
| 28 | However , as leaders of the Christian community the clergy should be the first to foster good relationships through effective communication . |
| 29 | Tempting though it is to believe that the top-priced grands vins must be the biggest bargains of all , the opposite is in fact the case . |
| 30 | Long-term , the introduction of electronic laboratory notebooks should be a net gain to history . |