Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SMALLEST monthly rise for almost two years in the number of people out of work , and the first clear signs that the two-year decline in car sales may be ending , prompted cautious optimism yesterday that the worst of the recession may be over . |
| 2 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 3 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 4 | Sale of Braque ‘ Atelier VIII ’ for $7 million ( £3.9 million ) has boosted hopes that the art market recession may be over |
| 5 | In Fig. 1 , for example , it will be seen that if the front of the vault is not correctly placed , the size of the brow ridges and degree of frontal recession may be unduly accentuated . |
| 6 | There 's been a sharp decline in Britain 's industrial and manufacturing output raising fears among economists that the recession may be deepening . |
| 7 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 8 | The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand . |
| 9 | The centre says the recession may be forcing more people to abandon their pets . |
| 10 | The survey results , which are closely watched by Government and in the City , will raise hopes that the end of the recession may be in sight . |
| 11 | Atari needs a VCS-successor , and the Lynx may be it . |
| 12 | The implication for arts organisations of a ban may be similarly grim . |
| 13 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
| 14 | … the position of upper-class housewife may be much more highly valued in the overall structure than the position of lower-class housewife . |
| 15 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 16 | The DoE may be clear as to what ‘ planning policy recognises ’ , but the reality differs considerably from the official statement . |
| 17 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 18 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 19 | The level of the average British male may be 6 but given the incidence of heart disease in Scotland , perhaps the average is not to be desired . |
| 20 | While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’ |
| 21 | Our views may be poles apart but they 're not saboteurs . |
| 22 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 23 | Such views may be held alongside others in varying combinations . |
| 24 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 25 | This polarity of views may be represented in terms of the differential propensities sr and sw . |
| 26 | On the question of what amounts to ‘ serious deterioration ’ , it is clear that differing views may be reached . |
| 27 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 28 | Similarly , the adoption of a common policy for the new firm will be essential : modification or even abandonment of formerly held views may be required . |
| 29 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 30 | Confusing : A sufferer may be highly intelligent , have a responsible job , be very caring and concerned for his or her family and yet still be drawn by this compulsion to use his or her drug of choice and , as a result , progressively to destroy everything of value . |