Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter . |
| 2 | These employees may only be handled differently when the employer has a justifiable reason . |
| 3 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 4 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 5 | There are also certain transactions , such as the alteration of the company 's articles of association , which may only be carried out by resolution of the shareholders . |
| 6 | Investment business may only be carried out for a ‘ corporate finance client ’ in connection with ‘ corporate finance activities ’ in accordance with the terms of a ‘ corporate finance engagement letter ’ which has been agreed with the client . |
| 7 | Now the operation may only be carried out if a foetus is badly damaged or if a pregnancy threatens a woman 's life or health or is the result of a crime . |
| 8 | Assuming the cost of labour increases by 20% , prices may only be put up by 10% without affecting sales limits and the number of labour hours available is reduced to 600 , what is the optimal mix of X and Y ? |
| 9 | An SPR may only be closed once but may be referred to as ‘ replied ’ many times . |
| 10 | A major constraint upon the straightforward re-use of a windmill as a dwelling is imposed by its circular or polygonal plan which tends to conflict with conventional cubical furniture and may only be reconciled satisfactorily with purpose-made , built-in fitting ( Plate 40 ) . |
| 11 | If hard copying prior to module version deletion has been mandated via the LIFESPAN configuration file , then a module version may only be deleted once a ‘ hard copy ’ exists . |
| 12 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 13 | It must eventually be split up into , the Muslims , the Serbs , the Croats , and that , that is in fact very sad . |
| 14 | The first horn should rarely go below and the second should rarely be taken above . |
| 15 | In the past , it was not even entirely clear whether the tariff should properly be constructed solely on the basis of the seriousness of the current offence , as the Court of Appeal insisted in the case of R . |
| 16 | Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side . |
| 17 | If a man who is a diabetic and who has arterial disease to the extent that this plaintiff had , is severely injured so that life is much more difficult to bear than otherwise it would have been , a defendant is in my view , quite unable , with justification , to say that a reduction in damages should thereby be brought about . |
| 18 | For example , some really hard cases write adoring letters to Judith Chalmers and should obviously be banged up in solitary confinement without a moment 's delay . |
| 19 | The persistence of fossils will be the subject of the next chapter , but a cautionary note should perhaps be sounded here , for the familiarity of the fossil names may merely reflect the fact that they were studied by British palaeontologists . |
| 20 | We are sorry that we can not prove a cause and effect conclusively , but suspect that the hemiparesis could be a reaction related to sumatriptan and suggest that intra-cerebral binding sites of sumatriptan should perhaps be studied more closely . |
| 21 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 22 | The young corporal , it should perhaps be pointed out , was also a Grant , but indeed with the recommendation of his own officers he was to a great degree responsible for his own advancement to commissioned rank , and this kind of promotion for gallantry was by no means an isolated example , for a considerable number of non-commissioned officers of suitable education , many of them Scots , reached the junior commissioned ranks . |
| 23 | It should perhaps be pointed out once again that even registration affords only prima facie evidence of title . |
| 24 | It should perhaps be pointed out before going on to the next set of examples to be discussed that most of the uses found with have admit of only one of the two interpretations given above . |
| 25 | A cautionary word should perhaps be entered here . |
| 26 | If intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation is to be used it should perhaps be introduced early in the management of such patients to prevent inexorable deterioration in renal function , rather than late in an effort to reverse such deterioration . |
| 27 | Every militiaman in Lebanon should perhaps be taken up to the Dog River to see these memorials to pride and power . |
| 28 | The fleece should only be gathered up when it is dry for storage to avoid mould developing . |
| 29 | These foods should only be eaten occasionally ; they should not form the basis of your diet . |
| 30 | For this reason , young foals under a month old should only be turned out in the field if the weather conditions are good . |