Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there are occasions when doing-it-yourself may be less risk-prone . |
| 2 | There are , of course , many schools other than those listed in the appendix , and also a great many private coaches , all of whom may be found in the publication Contacts , a trade book everyone interested in joining the profession should obtain from the office of The Spotlight , 42–43 Cranbourn St , London WC2H 7AP . |
| 3 | A group of urban poor , some of whom may be recent migrants , driven by the insanitary conditions , high rents and overcrowding of the slum areas , squat on a piece of unused land , and hastily erect a temporary shack . |
| 4 | The consequences of fire in hospitals and other health care premises can be especially serious because of the difficulties and dangers associated with the emergency evacuation of patients , many of whom may be highly dependent . |
| 5 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 6 | It certainly impressed those of limited intelligence , among whom may be numbered Crumwallis himself . |
| 7 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 8 | On the conservative side yesterday there were largely unspoken fears that it will be difficult for the new government to impose its discipline on 450 or so deputies , many of whom may be tempted to form separate parliamentary groups . |
| 9 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 10 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 11 | But certain aggravated assaults are singled out by the law for higher maximum penalties , and three of them may be mentioned here . |
| 12 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 13 | There are now serious environmental concerns about a whole range of chemicals that go into these cleaners , and the detrimental effect that some of them may be having on wildlife in rivers and shorelines . |
| 14 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 15 | If certain organisational features , their dependence on the human resource and their national recognition are all points in common , differences between them may be more marked , more extensive and more culturally deep rooted . |
| 16 | Some of them may be able to start up new interests , but it 's usually best to start from their own experiences in life . |
| 17 | Many of them are under review and some of them may be virtually ignored in practice . |
| 18 | Some couples whose cohabitation has worked well for them may be surprised , hurt or bewildered when , legally married , they find their relationship deteriorating . |
| 19 | them may be , partners can feel deserted by each other when most in need of help and support . |
| 20 | Jesus said , ‘ I pray … that all of them may be one … that the world may believe . ’ |
| 21 | The language presented to them may be a genuine record of native speaker behaviour , genuine , that is to say , as textual data , but to the extent that it does not engage native speaker response it can not be realized as authentic discourse . |
| 22 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 23 | They may not exist or access to them may be refused . |
| 24 | It is also suggested that , provided we plunge below the surface of these theories , certain important links between them may be revealed . |
| 25 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 26 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 27 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 28 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 29 | Social and practical situations are interactive and pupils ' competence in them may be quite different from their abilities with pen and paper alone . |
| 30 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |