Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may secretly be under guard in Dracula 's castle . |
| 2 | If you buy a ‘ Rolex ’ watch for £50 , you know it 's unlikely to be genuine , but what you would n't know is that it may only be worth £5 . |
| 3 | This lack of interest may only be on the part of one partner . |
| 4 | Otherwise , rejection may only be on the ground of infringement of ‘ sovereignty or security ’ ; neither a claim to exclusive jurisdiction by the state of destination over the subject-matter with which the document deals , nor the fact that no cause of action would exist under the law of that state is a proper ground for rejection . |
| 5 | Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison . |
| 6 | If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists . |
| 7 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 8 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 9 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 10 | They last between half and two seconds and while their amplitude may only be in the region of 50 microvolts , they may be as large as 250 microvolts from peak to trough ( see Fig. 2.6 ) . |
| 11 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 12 | That those eyes which have witnessed the Divine Motherhood should henceforward be for ever lowered in contemplation in an enclosed cloister seems to me entirely fitting . |
| 13 | I am a great fan of Ginny 's but I must admit I was upset to see this picture as Murphy must obviously be in pain . |
| 14 | But it should only be for a matter of months . ’ |
| 15 | Secure placements , once made , should only be for so long as is necessary and unavoidable . |
| 16 | This does not mean that the focus should only be on short-term objectives , or that the government should adopt a highly-prescriptive approach in deciding what to fund . |
| 17 | ‘ To be judged a success is business should only be as a result of consistent , sustained growth , ’ he said . |
| 18 | However this should only be in proportion to the individual plant 's capacity to produce new wood , and you may have to compromise and resort to some lateral side-shoots like a climber . |
| 19 | You — you have business to attend to — and I should only be in the way . ’ |
| 20 | But the keyboard socket should only be near the front if the motherboard is designed that way . |
| 21 | If the soul 's fate was indeed predetermined , it followed that all human endeavour to bring about its salvation must necessarily be in vain . |
| 22 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 23 | The committee urged that the emphasis should henceforth be on the special needs for education of certain groups of children — those with learning difficulties — rather than on various categories of handicap . |
| 24 | Although the Central Authority initially resisted the more direct encroachment of Whitehall on the Area Boards ( successfully insisting that communication should normally be through the Authority ) , the semi-political process which determined the Whitehall allocation of resources to electricity was mirrored within the British Electricity Authority . |
| 25 | Guarantee costs of these should normally be at the vendors ' expense . |
| 26 | On the other hand , contagious diseases should normally be within the definition , and workers with HIV/AIDS would be within the protected class . |
| 27 | To set the boat up , the butt of the mast should normally be in the position furthest forward . |
| 28 | Hearings should normally be in private . |
| 29 | The manager , though not the supervisor , should normally be in attendance throughout the time when the office is open to the public or to telephone calls from the public . |
| 30 | This must just be between us . |