Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be of " in BNC.
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| 31 | The trial judge agreed that the computer programs were protected by confidence but said that the protection should be of a limited nature . |
| 32 | Obviously , in order that the trial should be of any value at all , both materials should be used in the way that will produce the best results . |
| 33 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 34 | These hospitals and units may be of two kinds . |
| 35 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 36 | Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly . |
| 37 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 38 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 39 | The finding by Fritz and Brooks that vagotomy abolishes the choleretic response to feeding in cholecystectomised dogs suggests that , at least as regards the digestive function of bile , neural regulation of biliary secretion may be of greater functional importance than is generally acknowledged . |
| 40 | In each case the containing font may be of a different size , but the title will adapt . |
| 41 | To the environmentally concerned , however , the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance . |
| 42 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 43 | The analogy may be of Britain gaining an Empire by accident , and then losing it ; this century , town planning has expanded its subject field , as disciplinary boundaries first collided and then were realigned , at a time when the nature of complex environmental problems was reidentified and expressed again in different terms . |
| 44 | In addition to The Handwriting of English Documents by L.C. Hector already mentioned , the following books may be of value : English Cursive Book-hands 1200–1500 by M.B. Parkes ( London 1979 ) , Elizabethan Handwriting 1500–1650 by G.E . |
| 45 | Typically , the cost of acquiring , checking , editing , and converting data may be of the order of the system hardware and software costs while the time required to assemble and check the cartographic and attribute databases may be of the order of several years . |
| 46 | Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds . |
| 47 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 48 | These attributes would be expected to lead to new and better solutions to problems in the UK and it seems that the apparent anomaly may be of cultural origin . |
| 49 | Typically , the cost of acquiring , checking , editing , and converting data may be of the order of the system hardware and software costs while the time required to assemble and check the cartographic and attribute databases may be of the order of several years . |
| 50 | Lines may be curved , zig-zag or straight , for example , and blobs may be of different sizes . |
| 51 | We suggest that anti-lactoferrin may be of pathogenetic significance by counteracting the antiphlogistic properties of lactoferrin at mucosal surfaces , thereby aggravating and/or sustaining mucosal inflammation initiated by other factors . |
| 52 | For the depressed person , the loss may be of a more ideal kind and may relate to aspects of himself that destroy his security of self-esteem . |
| 53 | The wire connecting the main unit to the solenoid valve may be of a light-duty twin type of any reasonable length . |
| 54 | 'i A wide personal choice may be offered in recommended reading of authors , themes , periods or genres , but works for detailed study must be of sufficient substance and quality to merit serious consideration and must be selected from at least two literary genres . |
| 55 | Tank stands should be of the highest quality . |
| 56 | However , as it was intended that this study should be of particular use to the suppliers of information , it was therefore biased towards the first stage of environmental scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 57 | The results of the study should be of interest to both macroeconomists and economic historians . |
| 58 | Research on language and law , language and industry should be of benefit to both monolinguals and bilinguals . |
| 59 | Our greatest fear must be of an alliance . |
| 60 | Since the play is by Shakespeare , the critical policy has been to assume the tragedy must be of the first stature and , therefore , the play would be written to support this revelation of interiority . |