Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The implication for arts organisations of a ban may be similarly grim . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | … the position of upper-class housewife may be much more highly valued in the overall structure than the position of lower-class housewife . |
| 14 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The external arrogance or bonhomie of the primary sufferer may be no more than a fearful mask . |
| 21 | Issues relating to the counsellor 's own personal and family life will need to have been processed thoroughly because counselling other people has to be impartial ( rather than be affected by issues in the counsellor 's own personal life ) and because the counsellor himself or herself may become unsettled when an issued being discussed with a sufferer may be too close for comfort to the counsellor 's personal experience . |
| 22 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 23 | The huge majority of humanity are earthy clods for whom no hope may be entertained . |
| 24 | Acknowledging that more than one sort of link may be formed as a result of even simple conditioning procedures helps explain the way in which these effects show in behaviour . |
| 25 | This type of link may be characterized by the stretch of apolar residues in the N-terminal β- strand A and a hydrogen bond network in domain 2 mediated by Ser-X-Pro at the start of β- strand A combined with Asn 161 and Ser 164 at the end of β- strand F and start of G ( residues in red ) . |
| 26 | The police do not always allow useless speculation to grow when an obvious link may be misleading . |
| 27 | Detectives say they 've no proof that a serial killer is responsible for the four women 's deaths , but they are pooling all information in the hope that a common link may be found |
| 28 | The whole of the top of the ramus may be broken ( Fig. 3.14 E ) or completely missing ( Fig. 3.14 G-H ) . |
| 29 | In terms of developments in curricula and pedagogy , a number of trends with which the project is in sympathy may be identified . |
| 30 | Such experience may be a highly visible educational programme , with recognised qualifications although no specified organisational outcome ; it may be a training event focused on particular skills and understandings ; it may be an almost unrecognised flash of insight at the workplace , prompted consciously or unconsciously by others . |