Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common . |
| 2 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 4 | I use the word ‘ true ’ to express the notion that consent , or refusal of consent , may be inoperative in law for one of three reasons ; there may perhaps be others , but only these three are relevant to the present case . |
| 5 | There may perhaps be properties which are evidence-transcendent , by which we mean that it is always possible that they be absent even though we have the best possible evidence of their presence . |
| 6 | What the Middle English poet has to say , in essence , is that in the war between God and Satan for men 's souls , there may perhaps be neutrals . |
| 7 | The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war . |
| 8 | Like the finches , the Galapagos mocking birds , Darwin concluded , must only be varieties of the species . |
| 9 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 10 | Applicants should normally be graduates with relevant experience in voluntary or paid work . |
| 11 | Perhaps we should just be friends ? ’ |
| 12 | If I never did anything but sit in this room and powder my face and tell you what a clever fool you are , i should still be heavens high above the millions of common women who do their domestic duty , and sacrifice themselves , and run Trade departments and all the rest of the vulgarities . |
| 13 | There must still be warrants out on her . |
| 14 | But there must still be doubts about his job security . |
| 15 | Three-quarters of the Little Hural deputies must also be members of the Great Hural . |
| 16 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 17 | If such a scheme is implemented , there must also be procedures established to deal with any possible mismatch . |
| 18 | Information that enters the company at one point ( for example the complaints department ) must be transmitted to all personnel whose decisions might be affected by it ( for example , the design department ) , and there must also be systems for the collection of information from outside the organisation that might affect future profits . |
| 19 | Many people wish to be left alone to get on with their own lives and they must be allowed to do so , and there must also be opportunities for different degrees and different kinds of involvement . |
| 20 | Trade unionists and educationalists should also be members . |
| 21 | There should also be rules to meet the needs of other service providers . |
| 22 | There should also be incentives for closer working between primary and secondary services . |
| 23 | He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe . |
| 24 | They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact . |
| 25 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 26 | ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons . |
| 27 | Managers should never be administrators Over the last few decades the distinction between leaders , managers and administrators has become increasingly blurred , to the detriment of profit and people alike . |
| 28 | The campaign groups should ideally be voices calling from the wilderness on behalf of the wilderness . |
| 29 | New activities to be promoted should therefore be ones requiring relatively small amounts of investment capital . |
| 30 | ‘ The mothers 'll only be skivvies anywhere they get billeted , so I might as well choose my own place . |