Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our huggable bunny may well be eaten by a fox , it may well be eaten by us , or it may start to be eaten by micro-organisms , die and be finished off by other microorganisms . |
| 2 | The play may shock audiences ; it may have to be withdrawn or rewritten . |
| 3 | It may have to be accepted that recurrent brief admissions are a necessary part of the long-term care of such a patient . |
| 4 | He says that they mounted an undercover operation to get to the horse — it 's in such a bad way it may have to be put down . |
| 5 | If an expert clause is unclear , it may have to be clarified by the court . |
| 6 | All types of a-v , museum , artefact and other stimulus material may be involved , and if it is not immediately available it may have to be purchased , borrowed or created . |
| 7 | The point , once obvious , has ceased to be that , and it may need to be restated . |
| 8 | The product may be difficult to pack or it may need to be kept under refrigeration . |
| 9 | In such cases it may need to be supported at the level of verbal consciousness , and , like grieving as the gateway to reattachment , should not be prematurely foreclosed . |
| 10 | Time-sociology ( or chronosociology as it may come to be called ) has many dimensions to it . |
| 11 | All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered . |
| 12 | Finally , it was felt that once the rate of development charge was reduced there would be no clear principle as to the level at which it should continue to be levied — ‘ the process of reduction , once begun , would be difficult to stop ’ . |
| 13 | That it should need to be exorcised in that fashion , however , or at all , still leaves it looking potent , richly formative and far from innocent , and the fiction that ultimately emerges from it is ex-academic in much the same sense that it is ex-socialist . |
| 14 | I know that the Combined Heat and Power Association recently submitted a report to OFFER pointing out some institutional and administrative barriers that it should like to be tackled . |
| 15 | Some power was always available — if only through the mythical Ways and Means Act — although it might have to be handled with kid gloves . |
| 16 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 17 | It 'll have to be checked . |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll have to be retaken — the keeper moved ! |
| 19 | It 'll have to be washed now . |
| 20 | It 'll have to be enforced though . |
| 21 | I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something . |
| 22 | It 'll have to be sorted out . |
| 23 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 24 | ‘ This is all very interestin' , ’ said the Mayor , ‘ but I ca n't say one way or t' other , it 'll have to be discussed in council and there 's yon bridge to be seen to now . |
| 25 | ‘ It 'll have to be taken in at the seams . ’ |
| 26 | It 'll have to be found somewhere else in Greater York . |
| 27 | ‘ When the time comes it 'll need to be decorated and furnished to show prospective buyers , and as you 've done such a great job on your own place I thought you might be interested , ’ Vitor explained . |
| 28 | He says , Well really , he says , you it could do to be changed . |
| 29 | cos it 'd have to be circulating around would n't it ? |
| 30 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |