Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the adverb well in He speaks well of you may be equivalent to an adverb in French Il a très bien parlé de vous or it may be the equivalent of a noun , Il a dit du bien de vous . |
| 2 | The faith may be the product of conditioning , or it may be the fruit of symbolic bedazzlement , but in neither case is it in any significant degree the work of reason , judgement , or active participation in the processes of rule . |
| 3 | In such markets , direct selling or control of agents or distributors might be impractical , or it may be the case that import duties or other non-tariff barriers might present obstacles to exporters . |
| 4 | 2 In phonology , the head is that part of a word group which either beings with the stressed syllable of the first accented word , not being the nucleus , and which ends with the syllable immediately preceding the nucleus ; or it may be the pitch pattern associated with that part of a word group . |
| 5 | It may be the choice of words or it may be the respect that is accorded to the disapprover . |
| 6 | You 'd best remember that , or it 'll be the auction block for you pretty swiftly . ’ |
| 7 | Or it might be the breaking of an oath or the refusal to accept the decrees of Rome , as with King John . |
| 8 | Or it might be the weapon of Goliath himself , used by governments in the exercise of power . |
| 9 | Or it can be the pleasure of saying things to other people through how you look : about individuality , politics , creativity , aggression , sense of humour , daring . |
| 10 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 11 | A fund could therefore be a photocopying unit in County Hall , it could be County Hall itself ( i.e. the administration of the County Council ) , or it could be the whole of the education service . |
| 12 | Or it could be the Brownie whose egg is in the best condition . |
| 13 | Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them . |
| 14 | Or it could be the computer in the corner that keeps us awake . |
| 15 | The result of this hunger could simply be that opera houses survive the dog days of Thatcherism with full houses for Carmen etc. , or it could be the creation of new works that express and mirror the social and political needs of our culture in opera 's emotive language . |
| 16 | The core and mantle could be the result of heterogeneous formation , iron first then the silicates , or it could be the result of homogeneous formation with the Mercurian interior becoming sufficiently hot for differentiation to subsequently occur . |
| 17 | Of course , this is open to interpretation : for example , it may suggest a limited awareness of care programming and the paying of lip-service to the idea , or it could be the result of thorough consideration of what care programming could offer existing services and the conclusion that it is solely a matter for health authorities ' concern . |
| 18 | Or it could be the Saturday |
| 19 | Or it could be the Saturday after that one . |
| 20 | I mean it could be or it could be the reason why er why younger not |
| 21 | Anyway , as I see it now , if the authorities have got wind of her havin' a youngster , we 'll have some of them officials and the do-gooders comin' round , and it 'll be the workhouse in the end . ’ |
| 22 | And then , his voice falsely calm-sounding now , he said , ‘ You use that , m'lady , and it 'll be the finish of you . ’ |
| 23 | And it 'll be the finish of me . |
| 24 | And it 'll be the boy this time . ’ |
| 25 | Oysters , gentlemen — I 'll provide the oysters , and it 'll be the oysters that pay off the overdraft . " |
| 26 | Inevitably they argue that life stress events and family demographic variables are also important , and it may be the failure of much research to take these variables into account ( and probably the problems of doing so ) which explains why a stronger relationship between early attachment and behaviour and later adjustment is not found . |
| 27 | Many organic solvents interact with each other in this way , and it may be the combination of chemicals surrounding them that causes illness in chemical-sensitive patients . |
| 28 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 29 | and it might be the winter |
| 30 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |