Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much incidental mathematical experience may be involved in the organisation and preparation , as well as the clearing away . |
| 2 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 3 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 4 | It seems that the requirement of special damage may be satisfied by potential damage , and it may be possible to rephrase the requirement in terms of the plaintiff having a special interest in or concern with the challenged action . |
| 5 | Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is , clearly , also very similar . |
| 6 | The mode of use of the road should be clearly defined , although some restriction on user may be implicit in the physical nature of the road itself ( St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark ( No 2 ) [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 468 ) . |
| 7 | Your GP may be able to off out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 8 | Although money may be available for firms to borrow and interest rates may be low , investment will not be increased because of pessimistic expectations . |
| 9 | Help with payment may be available from social services . |
| 10 | Most cases of pathological phimosis result from balanitis xerotica obliterans , while the remainder may be due to a different , distinct fibrotic disease . |
| 11 | Some of the shares in the index may be objectionable on moral grounds to the customers ( or potential customers ) of institutional investors such as pension funds , investment trusts and insurance companies . |
| 12 | They have similar interests to entrepreneurial and internal capitalists , but in addition may be concerned with the ability of firms to cover interest payments and loan repayments without jeopardizing long-term profitability . |
| 13 | A clause which purports to exclude liability in a contract may be unreasonable in the light of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 14 | Nevertheless such a contract may be frustrated at common law . |
| 15 | As a result , errors can occur in the processing of the royalty payments and the contract may be open to various interpretations . |
| 16 | But rule-making by bodies other than Parliament may be subject to judicial review on a number of grounds , as we will see in due course . |
| 17 | The practical implication of these facts is that careful preparation may be necessary for industrial salespeople , either when selling to new companies or when selling to existing customers where the nature of the product is different . |
| 18 | The increased parietal cell mass may be due to the longterm trophic effects of H pylori induced hypergastrinaemia on the oxyntic mucosa , due to smoking , represent the genetic factor in duodenal ulcer , or be due to any combination of these . |
| 19 | I hope that , as soon as possible , the local government commission will spell out to local authorities and to the Secretary of State areas such as West Sussex in which no change may be preferable to radical reform . |
| 20 | Evidence of change may be useful in deciding whether or not a child requires special placement , and it is likely to be particularly helpful when discussing the child with other professionals or parents . |
| 21 | Change may be uncomfortable during the transitional period , but change is needed and change there must be . |
| 22 | Since many sediments contain mixtures of gravels , sands and finer particles the dry sieving technique may be appropriate for examination of only part of the whole assemblage of particles . |
| 23 | A technique may be consistent with a principle but ineffective for a particular group of learners . |
| 24 | From this example , we can draw a conclusion of crucial importance for the analysis of material culture : divisions which may appear important in language and ideology may be absent from object differentiation , while distinctions within the domain of artefacts may constitute important divisions which would elsewhere be ignored or denied . |
| 25 | Even conventions that are well established in principle such as those relating to cabinet collective responsibility may be vague in their application . |
| 26 | It is then up to the teacher or therapist to help the parents accept that an assessment may be useful as a way of helping the child without necessarily providing a diagnostic label or a clear statement regarding the child 's future . |
| 27 | Red squirrel may be extinct within 10 years |
| 28 | An antiseptic drip may be necessary for this tank . |
| 29 | If the value of total output should double from , say , £10 billion to £20 billion , this does not necessarily mean that total output itself has doubled : part of the increase may indeed be due to an increase in physical output , but part may be due to an increase in prices . |
| 30 | A photographic company might wish to support our conservation programme for glass negatives ; a charitable trust may be willing to support the microfilming of the archive collection , or the establishment of an image database ; European Community funding may be available for information technology and database work ; potential employers may be able to help with computer training for DHE students ; specialist societies and scientific groups may help to fund image databases or conservation-related biogeographical studies , and educational publishers are likely to be interested in interactive video for schools and colleges . |