Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 2 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 3 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 4 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 5 | These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 6 | Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours . |
| 7 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 8 | Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers . |
| 9 | That 's tru that 's the only part may be of traditional sales that you |
| 10 | ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . ) |
| 11 | The endoscopic Doppler ultrasound may be of diagnostic value in the evaluation of Dieulafoy 's disease when bleeding has stopped spontaneously . |
| 12 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 13 | Political parties , for example , may not present such an ‘ open face ’ to women ; their agendas may be of less interest to women or women may face more difficulties in fitting in with their timetables and organisation . |
| 14 | If diarrhoea is the dominant symptom and the threat of incontinence an embarrassing social handicap , provided that the rectum is not impacted on examination , loperamide may be of some use . |
| 15 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 16 | If , for example , a provision may be of doubtful import , such resort would be perfectly legitimate … ( p145 ) Because Chalmers saw codification as an improvement in the form of the law , resurrection of old authorities is easy . |
| 17 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 18 | It is important to recognize that division must be by one principle at a time . |
| 19 | The constant updating of all media contacts should be of top priority and should not be put off and off until a spare moment arrives . |
| 20 | It was natural that their products should be in great demand . |
| 21 | The computer must be of merchantable quality . |
| 22 | As you know , if you heard the discussion yesterday which I believe you did , in accord with the County Council 's criterion that it the new settlement should be within ten miles , we 've widened the area of search to that ten mile radius . |
| 23 | If the rope breaks , the take off field should be within easy reach for a downwind landing , whereas a problem with the towplane 's engine usually means a field landing is almost inevitable . |
| 24 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 25 | The bulb must be in good working order and the wiring must be good , i.e. free from any short circuits or bad earths which could adversely affect the lamp , |
| 26 | MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them . |
| 27 | Since the keywords must be in upper case , you may wish to use the |
| 28 | At the end of key stage 4 the response should be in written form only . |
| 29 | That sort of decision should be under some sort of democratic decision making ability . |
| 30 | I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian challenged the Prime Minister to comment on the increase , and he answered that the chairman must be worth that salary . |