Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade . |
| 2 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 3 | These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common . |
| 4 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 5 | Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible . |
| 6 | If he leaves all to his wife on his death there may only be duty on the £1M non-qualifying assets on his widow 's death . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Work habitually done on an ad valorem basis may be quite uneconomical and should perhaps be time charged . |
| 13 | Proposals to rehabilitate existing broadleaved woods ( which are a source of livestock shelter ) on farms should only be grant aided if the scheme aims to ‘ retain the essential broadleaved character of the woodland with appropriate native tree species ’ . |
| 14 | Me feeling is that there should only be team promotions and that the money should be split . |
| 15 | The number of protons in the nucleus gives the atomic number of the element , which must necessarily be integer : 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 to 92 . |
| 16 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |
| 17 | Like the finches , the Galapagos mocking birds , Darwin concluded , must only be varieties of the species . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Members of the Cabinet must not be members of the National Assembly . |
| 20 | There must not be space for the ferret to get around the outside of the cage and remain free . |
| 21 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There must not be attitudes of victory or defeat , but rather a deep sensitivity . ’ |
| 23 | Duke Michael must not be King . |
| 24 | Made up of the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee , the Leader of the House of Commons and seven other members of the House ( who must not be ministers ) , its purpose is to oversee the National Audit Office , in approving the annual budget and appointing the auditor for the Office 's own accounts . |
| 25 | Fields claimed that he was refusing to pay on principle , because the tax was unjust ; Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , said that he had " absolutely no sympathy " with Fields , and that " law makers must not be law breakers " . |
| 26 | Indeed , perhaps the most sensible thing that that model of of consistency , Ki Neil Kinnock , has said this year was , law makers must not must not be law breakers . |
| 27 | First and foremost , it must not be voluntarist , and must therefore eschew any hint of historicism . |
| 28 | Good resolution : I must not be fey . |
| 29 | For this tax timing option for shares to be valuable , the marginal tax payer must not be tax exempt ( e.g. not be a pension fund ) , and must be capable of holding the shares into the next tax period ( e.g. not be an arbitrageur or market maker ) . |
| 30 | They must not be accommodation bills , where no underlying transaction exists , where the bill has been accepted so that it can be discounted for capital purposes . |