Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the decline of public transport , it is often no longer possible for those who do not have access to personal transport ( their own or shared ) to commute daily to and from rural settlements ; these people and places may effectively be isolated . |
| 2 | The Marketing Mix may effectively be described and analysed on the basis of the Four P's . |
| 3 | Goldthorpe 's crisp conclusion is that ‘ relative mobility rates … have remained generally unaltered ; and the only trends that may arguably be discerned … are indeed ones that would point to a widening of differences in class chances . ’ |
| 4 | A primary objective for ODA-funded BGS support for the Geological Survey Department is the training of junior professional and technical staff so that both posts may eventually be filled by local staff . |
| 5 | The scheme is only operational in England but may eventually be extended to Scotland and Wales . |
| 6 | Infrequent services will be used even less , and , as levels of car ownership grow in rural areas , so demand will continue to fail until the services may eventually be withdrawn . |
| 7 | Here we are concerned with the basic principles , on which all else depends and which may eventually be applied to longer movements as well as to short sections . |
| 8 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 9 | For Keynesians , persistently high unemployment rates are an indication that the labour market is not clearing , that there is chronic excess supply in the labour market , and that some action by the monetary and fiscal authorities may eventually be warranted . |
| 10 | And while the sea may be too dilute to make recovery of copper possible the technique may eventually be used in reclaiming copper from industrial wastewater . |
| 11 | If so , analysis of serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one may eventually be used to identify bile acid malabsorption in humans . |
| 12 | The views and wishes of private individuals , however comprehensible , can not be permitted to influence whatever decision may eventually be arrived at . ’ |
| 13 | Cloning , parthenogenesis ( development of the embryo without sperm ) , and even the creation of cybernetic organisms may eventually be perfected . |
| 14 | These may eventually be harnessed as biosensor recognition components , although the structural lability of most receptors when separated from their lipid membrane environment is a serious problem . |
| 15 | They are also required to ‘ avoid excessive Government deficits ’ , and may eventually be fined for non-compliance . |
| 16 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 17 | Their proposals have led the Hungarian Trade Minister , Peter Akos Bod , to draw uncomfortable parallels between the Community which his country may eventually be allowed to join and the Comecon which it recently left . |
| 18 | ‘ Those at risk may eventually be screened ’ |
| 19 | IN this chapter we are concerned with a group of torts the function of which is to protect some of a person 's intangible interests — those which may loosely be called his business interests — from unlawful interference . |
| 20 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Once again , one could elaborate this basic picture , which may loosely be described as one of ‘ mutual paranoia ’ . |
| 22 | Pressman and Wildavsky have made a tentative attempt to draw attention to what may loosely be described as the mathematics of implementations the way in which the mere quantity of agreements necessary may , even when all parties are committed to a policy , undermine or delay effective action . |
| 23 | It may loosely be judged to refer to at least some of the works of literature , art , philosophy , history and biography . |
| 24 | After birth , HIV may rarely be transmitted by breastfeeding . |
| 25 | But the substitution of ‘ unofficial ’ or ‘ official ’ goals may be a product of recognition that more ‘ worthwhile ’ activities may thereby be undertaken . |
| 26 | The most obvious effect of plate tectonics is that continents can be split and their components driven apart if a divergent plate margin becomes established beneath them , and can be caused to collide with each other along the lines of subduction zones , where mountain belts such as the Himalayas may thereby be generated . |
| 27 | People wishing to own their council house may thereby be led to believe mistakenly , that the present institutionalization of private property is in their interests . |
| 28 | Moreover , members may thereby be enabled to avoid direct responsibility for poor results arising from decisions taken in committee . |
| 29 | I am satisfied , therefore , that the issue which arises for determination , that is whether it is in the children 's interests that the mother should be permitted to live with them in England or whether they should be brought up in Australia where they could have more frequent contact with their father , may properly be determined in either court . |
| 30 | Where the person applying for a Certificate of Judgment is not a party , he must state in writing with particulars the purpose for which he requires the Certificate of Judgment and the capacity in which he applies and must satisfy the district judge that the application may properly be granted . |