Example sentences of "who [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then so might that of the writer of the story , who may be less obedient than the gentile reader immediately recognises . |
| 2 | Her patron is male and she feels no qualms about rubbing shoulders with male chefs and passing orders to a commis who may be older than she is . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 4 | Flaps are described in detail for the many pilots who do not fully understand how to make the best use of them , and who may be nervous about their first flights in a flapped machine . |
| 5 | So young people , who may be unhappy for a number of reasons , might try sniffing to seek attention or to escape from their problems . |
| 6 | The most common drill — and this is even practised by the better players who may be struggling with their groundstrokes — is to put targets within 60–90cm ( 2–3ft ) of the baseline and inside tramline and think in terms of rallying while aiming at the targeted areas . |
| 7 | You can also contact your local Social Services Department , who may be able to help in a number of ways . |
| 8 | The addresses of local Energy Projects who may be able to help with draught-proofing and insulation , can be obtained from local advice agencies , or by writing to Neighbourhood Energy Action at 2/4 , Bigg Market , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , NE1 1UW . |
| 9 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 10 | We must all have known home undergraduates who have worked very hard on an English course , who may be ambitious to do well , and who still , to their intense disappointment , end up doing badly . |
| 11 | As the child that comes or may come from a sexual encounter between a man and a woman differs from the child born from that man and some other woman ( or from the same man and the same woman on another occasion ) , so every genuine poem is the unique product of one unrepeatable encounter between the artist and an unearthly partner who may be called ‘ Muse ’ or ‘ goddess ’ . |
| 12 | Sleeping with the succuba who may be disembowelled but also disembowelling , Eliot 's speaker is in a position analogous to that of the eunuch priest ; poetry like sex here points to horrible death and finds expression for that concept in the language of the rituals of primitive religion and mythology . |
| 13 | This section , describing in accurate seamen 's language a voyage past The Dry Salvages in a fishing boat loaded with ‘ canned baked beans ’ combined Eliot 's own sea knowledge with that of the Gloucester dory fishermen , and bound these up with the ‘ well-told seaman 's yarn ’ of Dante 's Ulysses and with Tennyson 's Ulysses ( who may be related to Gerontion ) . |
| 14 | which becomes an anti-Lord 's Prayer , addressed to an unnamed hearer who may be the god of a universe of barrenness and death . |
| 15 | Current legislation is embodied in the Health and Safety at Work Act which places a general duty on an employer to ‘ conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , as far as is practicable , that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby , are not exposed to risks to their health and safety . ’ |
| 16 | In addition Mr Patient is very likely to have had one or two close friends , probably from some ti me back in his life history , who may be dramatically affected by his death , even though they may not be visibly there close by or apparently very emotionally involved . |
| 17 | All this adds to the difficulty of bereavement service organizers in reaching out to those who may be most in need of the care that can be offered . |
| 18 | These women , who may be anything from 40 to 70 , take care of their forme by eating to various permutations : some do n't eat after 5 pm , others never mix protein and carbohydrate . |
| 19 | First you must cut out the airy speculation inside the brackets , then you must examine in what ways this is and is not a new kind of play , and then rephrase juvenilian , which at present totters between juvenile and some reference to that difficult writer of Roman satires , Juvenal , who may be an influence on Marston , but hardly on Shakespeare . |
| 20 | Hendry also possesses a greater range than Davis , who may be hamstrung by his reluctance to take on long pots . |
| 21 | Anybody who has been involved in community organising will have experience of situations where the ( actual or perceived ) formality of the meeting has restricted participation by people who may be active and vociferous before and/or after the meeting . |
| 22 | It is not just children who may be incapable of operating their own structuring within an exercise . |
| 23 | Because of the early efforts to contain and isolate mentally handicapped people and because of the lack of distinction between the mentally handicapped and those who may be mentally ill , possibly dangerously so , considerable fears have spread through society about people who live in asylums and ‘ loony bins ’ . |
| 24 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 25 | Introduce the visitors to any parents who may be doing voluntary work in the school , give the parent helpers opportunity to talk about their perceptions of the school . |
| 26 | The video can be used at induction meetings and loaned to parents who may be considering sending children to your school . |
| 27 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
| 28 | The author of the Activity Book is Tony Cornish ( who may be involving a writing partner whose name escapes me — Tim Blakey will confirm ) . |
| 29 | For example , the benefits of a soil conservation programme will be felt not only by the direct land users who are causing the soil erosion , but by others who may be subjected to less severe crop losses , deposition of gravel on cultivated land , loss of livestock and building or siltation of canal irrigation networks . |
| 30 | I do n't know what happens about any other consultants who may be engaged but I suspect there will be no waiver of subrogation against those firms . |