Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that weighting needs to be applied to er er the various criteria and I think that elected members are the appropriate starting point for er applying er er applying that weighting . |
| 2 | It may well be that risk-taking companies are managed by risk-taking individuals with powerful personalities . |
| 3 | Means , in most of the reported cases , the naked penis although it may well be that exposure of the vagina would be within the mischief the offence is trying to prevent . |
| 4 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 5 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 6 | Indeed it may well be that power is not linked to the position of an individual within the formal structure of an organisation at all . |
| 7 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 8 | All we have to do is report to the parents once a year it does n't say that everything has to be on the report sheet at the same time it may well be some information goes at one particular time and some at another . |
| 9 | It may just be another part of ‘ growing up ’ , but take time to find out if anything is bothering them . |
| 10 | This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies . |
| 11 | I 'm conscious of the fact obviously that individual departments are taking them on board , but I think we , it is important that we actually do have a consistent approach , and it might well be that budget review at some future meeting might want to consider the monitoring of progress in order to satisfy the district auditor in future events . |
| 12 | If any single factor can be identified as crucial in the destruction of a ‘ regional integration ’ in the economy , it might well be this delocalizing of finance capital . |
| 13 | I think it might even be that kitten |
| 14 | And even if it 's true , it 'll just be another shambles . |
| 15 | But i it 'll only be that picture . |
| 16 | The person who 's attacking you — it could be a resident , it could even be another colleague — should be told that their behaviour is not acceptable . |
| 17 | The setting is a beach though in the crowded painting , background trees suggest it could also be some sort of a clearing . |
| 18 | That could be a recipe for stagnation and frustration ; but it could also be another way of emphasising the potential importance of curriculum managers intelligent enough to give scope to individuals and to exploit the coming confusions . |
| 19 | On the one hand , it could just be that Conservatism has changed . |
| 20 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 21 | Du n no yeah but it do n't mean to say that there 's a lot come out , it could only be that lot , could n't it ? |
| 22 | It could only be some quality in the stillness of the air which made the voice carry so beautifully . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that , given the current level of resources , both financial and human , the Council would be in a position to initiate central development of these courses in the near future , and it would therefore be some time before they would be incorporated into the new style provision . |
| 24 | And you wonder how it would ever be any good at anything . |
| 25 | Nor will an exclusion of participation in dividends beyond a fixed preferential rate necessarily imply an exclusion of participation in capital ( or vice versa ) although it will apparently be some indication of it . |
| 26 | So it will inevitably be some time before this necessary information becomes available in any meaningful way . |