Example sentences of "material [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 2 | However sick , vile and depraved the material may be , nothing can prevent an aura of moral and spiritual superiority from entwining the latest noise/horror collision , like a halo . |
| 3 | Earlier material may be shown but at the discretion of the school . |
| 4 | So much material may be readily available that some staff can feel that a little bit would not be missed . |
| 5 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 6 | Firstly , although the material may be produced by one library or by a group of libraries within one authority , the message is an exhortation to use library services or the stock of libraries in general . |
| 7 | The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule . |
| 8 | The relationship between the homoeopathic potency and the original starting material may be similar to the relationship between an antigen and its specific antibody . |
| 9 | More generally , document boundaries may be blurred and a massive body of material may be collected together in one interlinked corpus . |
| 10 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 11 | Material may be sent to either editor : Dr Geoffrey Beard , Earlsmere , Weston Lane , Bath , Avon BA1 4AA , or Mr Christopher Gilbert , Temple Newsam House , Leeds LS15 OAE . |
| 12 | In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified . |
| 13 | The example in Fig. 2 is of an undulating jet where the material may be expanding along helically twisted magnetic field lines . |
| 14 | new dictionary material may be entered via terminals . |
| 15 | Some material may be considered ‘ controversial ’ |
| 16 | Some material may be considered ‘ controversial ’ |
| 17 | The preparation of the material may be undertaken by the trial judge , or one of the trial judges , or by another judge or court officer whose primary work consists of such preparation . |
| 18 | In that case the source material may be subtracted from the document in question to leave the author 's own contribution or material taken from another source . |
| 19 | All types of a-v , museum , artefact and other stimulus material may be involved , and if it is not immediately available it may have to be purchased , borrowed or created . |
| 20 | Feature material may be written even earlier . |
| 21 | The material may be either sequenced double stranded or rendered single stranded by asymmetrical polymerase chain reaction ( using very much less of one of the two primers ) , selective enzymatic digestion of one of the strands , or by selective capture of one of the strands by labelling one oligonucleotide with biotin and immobilising the product on streptavidin coated magnetic beads . |
| 22 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 23 | Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves . |
| 24 | The lack of beach material may be explained in three ways . |
| 25 | In sand containing coarser and finer grains , such as that shown in Fig. 11.3 , the fine material may be removed from the area CD , thus exposing the coarser grains . |
| 26 | Sometimes this material may be a reworking of the original theme in a concentrated , active , and closely-knit symphonic texture . |
| 27 | And I do n't know quite what to do because I think some of the material may be significant . |
| 28 | Clearly , the material may be introduced to resolve a choice between two interpretations and the analysis in the Speech of Lord Browne-Wilkinson is essentially based on there being two possible meanings within a legislative text . |
| 29 | In each case we can choose a scale above which the material may be considered homogeneous , but below which the structure needs to be considered . |
| 30 | As an alternative calibrant , some unreactive material may be sputtered onto the surface ; gold is a favored material , giving 4f signals near 85 eV , as well as several others down to 4s near 760 eV . |