Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 32 | Such contract or contracts may be varied if , and only if , the rules so provide , by a majority of the members or by a specified majority . |
| 33 | Contracts may be developed with hospitals further afield , but few patients would choose to enter a hospital far from home . |
| 34 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 35 | If a change in control occurs employment contracts may be terminated , with the result that employees lose the gains from firm-specific training . |
| 36 | It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive . |
| 37 | If these provisions are not adhered to , ensuing contracts may be unenforceable and criminal sanctions may follow . |
| 38 | The success of the traded option is due to the existence of a regulated secondary market in which contracts may be bought and sold and positions opened and closed without the need to enter the securities market . |
| 39 | In selecting a new class of options the clearing house attempts to ensure that at all times contracts may be exercised without any undue influence on the share market itself . |
| 40 | However , this ability to mimic financial contracts may be extended to all such using calls , puts , shares and riskfree debentures . |
| 41 | A fuller treatment of the principles applicable to the interpretation of contracts may be found in The Interpretation of Contracts ( Sweet and Maxwell , 1989 ) by the author . |
| 42 | Similarly , contracts may be concluded on consistent terms at a number of outlets , over a period of time , and despite changes in personnel . |
| 43 | As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) . |
| 44 | The student can not stop the programme and ask questions and discussions may be difficult to organize ; the instruction tends to place the student in a rather passive situation . |
| 45 | Cos that seems to be the day when the arguments and discussions may be er set |
| 46 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 47 | In America , obscenity law protects the reader or viewer against harms he may inflict on himself , by whatever process those harms may be inflicted . |
| 48 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 49 | These two sets of attitudes may be combined in various ways . |
| 50 | Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult , if not impossible , to eliminate . |
| 51 | Similar attitudes may be adopted by newer , weaker rivals as they seek novel forms of alliance to overcome the disadvantages they face in tackling the world leaders head-on . |
| 52 | There are now signs that the generally negative attitudes may be changing . |
| 53 | Once again , although an impression of youth united by universal licence is not given , practices and attitudes may be considered more generally advanced or permissive than among the bulk of the population — especially its older members — in Gorer 's study . |
| 54 | These attitudes may be moulded by parental influence ( and hence positively — or negatively — correlated across generations ) and may be influenced by the social climate . |
| 55 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 56 | Eye-witnesses claim it dives beneath the surface of Loch Argyll , and its footprints may be seen on the muddy shore each dawn . |
| 57 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 58 | Other rituals may be performed in order to address the anxiety of the family regarding the naming and blessing of the child and commendations to God . |
| 59 | The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant . |
| 60 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |