Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it may be around today or tomorrow . |
| 2 | It may be reasonably confidently assumed that the different criteria for ambiguity which have been described in fact are sensitive to the same underlying semantic property , and that in the absence of ‘ special factors ’ will provide identical diagnoses . |
| 3 | It may be slightly more palatable . |
| 4 | If this makes them pause , even briefly , it may be just enough for the prey to escape . |
| 5 | I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever . |
| 6 | It might be tempting to make a small charge for this but it may be even more advantageous to offer this as a free service with the profit being goodwill . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it may be even more important that he should meet me . |
| 8 | However advantageous it may be either ideologically or strategically to view Nizan 's communist itinerary from a post-Stalinist perspective , the result of such perceptions is merely to obliterate the reality of Nizan 's lived experience beneath contemporary images and stereotypes . |
| 9 | ’ It may be all right for those who choose happily , but think of the mistakes that could be avoided if people had a little help . |
| 10 | Although it may be all right for the spokesman for the Opposition to talk about taking no measures , surely from all parts of the Province there is a cry for a security policy now to carry out what his own colleagues said would have to be done : to extirpate the IRA ? |
| 11 | This says that while it may be all very well to make philosophical statements about evil , evil nevertheless is real , and not merely an absence ; and what 's more it can be resisted , and what 's more still not resisting it ( in the belief that one day Omnipotence will cure all ills ) is a dereliction of duty . |
| 12 | It may be all very well when you have a goal in sight and you have only a few weeks to get through . |
| 13 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 14 | It may be far more powerful to live free from the past , weighed down as little as possible by how women have been perceived , or have perceived themselves , in that past . |
| 15 | The contrasts made above between the political systems on the two sides of the Atlantic suggest that it may be much more difficult for British pressure groups to identify points at which the political system is particularly open to influence . |
| 16 | Much of the criticism , however , is directed against the nationalism of the developing countries — against Arab , African or Latin American nationalism , for example — which challenges in various ways the dominance of the industrial capitalist nations ; yet it is evident that nationalism is just as strong in the latter countries , though for good historical reasons ( they are long established , accepted nation states ) it may be less vehemently expressed . |
| 17 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 18 | It may be that biologically we are on a continuum , and on rare occasions a child is born whose sex is uncertain . |
| 19 | These are some of the problems and it may be that early agreement and consequent implementation of the Second Directive are difficult to achieve . |
| 20 | It may be that initially it is difficult for people to express their hopes and goals and their fears and needs in their Christian life , and we do n't mind if it takes time . |
| 21 | However , it may be that once privatised , these pressures are tempered by pressures to show increased profits so as to justify higher dividends and enhance market prices . |
| 22 | It may be that only one fertilized female is needed to infect a new victim . |
| 23 | It may be that only core units are tested and perhaps only one or two of those . |
| 24 | It may be that only when key supportive figures are lacking , or have been lost , that others in the wider social network ( the health visitor , ‘ befriender ’ or social worker ) can have a protective effect . |
| 25 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 26 | On the evidence , it would seem so , but it may be that more intensive archaeological prospecting in western Crete will reveal many more Minoan sites . |
| 27 | It may be that more surviving documents for Innocent 's pontificate than for previous pontificates reflects greater activity , but we can not prove that . |
| 28 | Both tact and time are needed to effect this , and it may be that fully sighted friends are the best guides . |
| 29 | I mean it may be further up . |
| 30 | It may be this unusually close relationship between spoken and written forms which has led psycholinguists to concentrate on the processing of single grammatical sentences , with the tacit assumption that the sentence is an important processing unit . |