Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Our views may be poles apart but they 're not saboteurs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such views may be held alongside others in varying combinations . |
| 5 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 6 | This polarity of views may be represented in terms of the differential propensities sr and sw . |
| 7 | On the question of what amounts to ‘ serious deterioration ’ , it is clear that differing views may be reached . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other illustrations may be incorporated in the text and are often called ‘ cuts ’ or ‘ figures ’ . |
| 11 | Two simple illustrations may be given . |
| 12 | Common objects , a marble or pebble , a shell or a shiny conker can be part of a nature table collection and more unusual objects may be borrowed from museums . |
| 13 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 14 | In this way , the stylized clay objects may be seen as early forerunners of the more recognizable goddess-idols of the Late Minoan period . |
| 15 | We have some knowledge of these processes in cases such as proxemics , where our spatial orientation to objects may be observed as both cultural and normative ( Hall 1966 ) . |
| 16 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 17 | The specific objectification of a moral and juridical individual through the use of objects may be found in a wide range of societies , including those where kinship rather than the economy appears to be the dominant organizational principle . |
| 18 | As was noted in chapter 4 with respect to recent work on the hau , by embodying ancestral links objects may be the basis of an individual 's present social identity such that loss of the object would itself constitute a danger to the legitimacy and viability or the personage and the group he or she leads ( Wiener 1985 ) . |
| 19 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
| 20 | Among the Kwakiutl , discussed above , all objects may be related through a style expressive of an orality in which humankind achieves significance by its place in a universal cycle of devouring and reproduction ( Walens 1981 ) . |
| 21 | As mass consumption , a particular array of objects may be found to represent and assist in the construction of perspectives relating to control over production or rivalry between consumers , but also to wider issues concerning morality and social ideals . |
| 22 | The Companies Act 1989 attempts to remove the need for these lengthy clauses by providing that a company 's objects may be stated in any manner . |
| 23 | Here individual objects may be created and used as the basis of a repeating pattern . |
| 24 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 25 | Some common , fairly recent objects may be brought into school by pupils , or may be fairly easily acquired from junk shops , or as loans from parents or the elderly , although prices are rising even for twentieth-century objects . |
| 26 | Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass . |
| 27 | Cultures may be traditional , achieving or affluent , since culture is a dynamic phenomenon . |
| 28 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 29 | Apart from that , one of your law lecturers may be able to help . |
| 30 | A tile of lecturers may be stored in ‘ lecturer number ’ or ‘ lecturer name ’ sequence . |