Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.

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31 Exceptionally , applicants who already have appropriate research experience may be admitted directly as candidates for the degree of DPhil .
32 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 .
33 Much incidental mathematical experience may be involved in the organisation and preparation , as well as the clearing away .
34 Once again it must be emphasised that creative play with these materials is tremendously important , and though mathematical experience may be an integral part of that activity , the child ' s creative urge should never be sacrificed .
35 Mathematical experience may be involved incidentally in many of these activities , but the teacher must decide when it is appropriate to bring it to the surface .
36 Such an experience may be demoralising if you 're unlucky to get caught up in the tangle .
37 While emphasising the interdependence between semantic expres-sions and underlying cognitive concepts , this approach also implies that not all of a child 's understanding of a particular experience may be expressed in language , and that a child may intend to express more than she is actually able to encode formally in language structures .
38 Working within this Hegelian framework Oakeshott also suggests that experience may be viewed from limited standpoints or ‘ modes ’ .
39 The impulses to seek general organ pleasure which all human beings experience may be derivatives of the species-need for reproduction .
40 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 .
41 But such data gain significance only through serving a larger enquiry , for example into how children have a better understanding of a problem ( or person ) through role-play , or how a raw experience may be organised through a particular approach to writing .
42 He finds a means of using the language of both physical experience and Scripture in an anagogical sense whereby mystical experience may be both recognised and shared by those to whom it is known , and to some extent desired , because imagined , by others less involved .
43 It would also discuss how general experience may be potentially seen as religious experience .
44 When arguing against radicalism , the rhetoric of conservatism may be employed .
45 If the firearm is discharged and property is damaged , then an offence of criminal damage may be charged .
46 If the spraying should stop , as can happen with blockages or burst pipes , the freezing effect travels inwards and the damage may be greater than if no precautions had been taken .
47 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 .
48 Slight damage may be treated by using staples to anchor pieces together , but if damage is widespread , replacement is the best bet
49 Fortunately , much of this is reversible in recovery , although sometimes , as in encephalopathy ( " wet brain " ) , the damage may be permanent .
50 When pecuniary losses are added the outcome of an assessment of the plaintiff 's damage may be that it is worth , say , between £8,000 and £10,500 .
51 If the words used are wide enough for the above purpose , the court must then consider whether " the head of damage may be based on some ground other than negligence " .
52 The police hope is that the IRA gang or individual responsible for this damage may be captured on film .
53 The damage may be permanent , and treatment is non-existent .
54 Though ruach may be found in man , it is always , so to speak , on loan , and not a possession ; a resident alien , not a native .
55 Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners .
56 For though there is a danger that a broad curriculum may be superficial , containing nothing but a passing acquaintance with a variety of different subjects , and though this danger must be constantly guarded against , the purpose of the generalized , ‘ disinterested ’ curriculum is quite different .
57 a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them .
58 We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice .
59 Even something from the day 's newspaper can be all that is needed as an effective starting-point , just as the latest or the most interesting work done in other subject areas of the curriculum may be used .
60 Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is , clearly , also very similar .
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