Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 10 years , it wo n't be Crystal Palace but it may be Southern League , Division Seven . ’ |
| 2 | It may be standard practice in France for one state enterprise to give to another large sums of money when one of them is in financial trouble ; but it is doubtful whether private undertakings would have considered this particular transaction as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 3 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 4 | It may be modern unwillingness to accept that there were activities in ancient societies which we do not understand that accounts for the embarrassing silence of archaeology on the Andean lines and its stubborn resistance to a proper treatment of the ley theory in Britain . |
| 5 | Whatever the technique ( and it may be total silence ) , other members of the group have registered the deviation and the implied message is ‘ OK , we note the deviation . |
| 6 | However , it may be that management has its own objective , or is forced into one by its shareholders , so that the state may find it needs to impose additional constraints to mould that objective to its own desires . |
| 7 | It may be that Creole is just more visible , more public in the years fourteen to seventeen , say . |
| 8 | With rising competition , however , it may be that school librarians and teachers will choose to spend money on newer 16 bit ( see Glossary ) machines which will provide larger memories and a reasonable range of software in terms of database management packages , while continuing to use BBC microcomputers for CAL use in the library and in the classroom . |
| 9 | It may be that money worries are behind the disappearnce , but there 's no firm evidence to support that and police are carrying on with the investigation because there may yet be another explanation . |
| 10 | But the objectives of an explanatory survey are not likely to be so straightforward , and it may be that sampling individuals , though convenient , does not sample the phenomenon of interest . |
| 11 | It may be that Rashid can not stand after Charles and Lambie . |
| 12 | Erm , but Mike thinks it may be that kitten . |
| 13 | Alternatively , it may be that Sivapithecus precedes the splitting of the great apes , so that the combination of cranial characters shared by it and the orang-utan must have arisen independently . |
| 14 | If films have little peripheral information in them then it may be that memory for such information is largely irrelevant . |
| 15 | 5.7.3 Without prejudice to the generality of the above to comply in all respects with the provisions of any statutes and other obligations imposed by law or by any byelaws applicable to the Premises or in regard to carrying on the trade or business for the time being carried on on the Premises It may be that clause 5.7.1 should , in certain circumstances , have the following proviso added : except where such compliance is within the ambit of the Landlord 's obligations contained in this Lease Almost all leases will contain a tenant 's covenant to comply with statutory obligations , which could involve fairly substantial capital expenditure . |
| 16 | It may be that part of our role in the future — to use Michael Grade 's phrase — will be to keep everyone else honest — to make sure there is a commitment to telling those major stories that matter . |
| 17 | It may be that gluten is important , but only in a fairly small proportion of schizophrenia cases . |
| 18 | The auditor must determine the reasonableness of these individual judgments and it may be that specialist ( non-accounting ) assistance will need to be sought . |
| 19 | Thus it may be that style theories are too simplistic . |
| 20 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 21 | However it may be that expansion of the business goes beyond the reasonable expectation of the parties ; in which case it may be necessary for the covenantor to renegotiate the ambit of the restraint . |
| 22 | It may be that osteopathy or chiropractic could help ; and both osteopaths and chiropractors have had a long training which includes medical education and qualifies them to give valuable help with backache . |
| 23 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 24 | It may be that Coilus was , in fact . |
| 25 | It may be that bargaining structures and processes can be more usefully approached within a broader framework as secondary , or intervening , variables which are themselves dependent upon more basic socio-economic forces within modern industrial societies ( Shalev , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It may be that calculation is involved . |
| 28 | It may be that difficulty in getting people with problems to consult a solicitor is more to do with their perception of the problem and the ability of a solicitor to help than with the cost and availability of the advice service . |
| 29 | Well it may be that type of a dog Jean . |
| 30 | Many children are unable to tell of their abuse , and some who do are not believed — it may be that abuse is more widespread than currently thought , whilst those families already under supervision by the social services for other difficulties are not more likely to abuse , but are simply more likely to be found . |