Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such experience may be a highly visible educational programme , with recognised qualifications although no specified organisational outcome ; it may be a training event focused on particular skills and understandings ; it may be an almost unrecognised flash of insight at the workplace , prompted consciously or unconsciously by others . |
| 2 | Once again it must be emphasised that creative play with these materials is tremendously important , and though mathematical experience may be an integral part of that activity , the child ' s creative urge should never be sacrificed . |
| 3 | Thai coups may be a thing of the past , but the army is probably in a stronger position now than it ever was . |
| 4 | Feminist cinema may be a ‘ global issue ’ , in Susan Hayward 's words , too large and bumpy and may be possible to argue that in theoretical and critical terms the truly global issues of a multi-racial international feminism are only just beginning to be addressed . |
| 5 | However , the value of gloves and other barriers to direct contact with potentially infected body fluids should not be underestimated , since unapparent inoculation through non-intact skin may be a source of infection in some settings . |
| 6 | AND FROM THE RACISM THAT SADLY AFFLICTS US ALL AND LEADS WHITE PEOPLE TO ASSOCIATE INFERIORITY AND DARKNESS , KURTEN 'S RECONSTRUCTION MAKES MORE SENSE , SINCE NEANDERTHALS LIVED IN GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND LIGHT SKIN MAY BE AN ADAPTATION TO LIFE IN MIDDLE TO HIGH LATITUDES . |
| 7 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 8 | Maternal nutrition may be an important influence on programming . |
| 9 | ‘ A card index may be a noble thing , especially if it has to do with animals . ’ |
| 10 | Or social activities and institutions may be an important adjunct of study — as with many professional courses . |
| 11 | A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness . |
| 12 | To compound the problem , the all-important first-time buyer may be a vanishing species , partly frightened off by the fate of those who were saddled with huge mortgages in the slump , and partly reducing in number because of demographics . |
| 13 | LOSING your favourite gems may be a personal disaster . |
| 14 | A single photo-cell on the retina may be an input to several nodes . |
| 15 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ? |
| 16 | Some hair may be a little stubborn when it comes to curling . |
| 17 | This year 's income may be a poor indicator of a household 's true economic spending power , and there is something to be said for basing the tax assessment on property values . |
| 18 | The high result for the Estate Agents ' text may be a reflection the commonality between Estate Agents ' literature and other genres contained in the LOB Corpus . |
| 19 | This rechunking of the text may be an idiosyncratic adjustment on the part of the German translator , as it appears that German does not generally favour more breaks than English . |
| 20 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 21 | Either a point q in the b -boundary may be a regular boundary point if the space-time can be embedded in a larger space-time such that the Riemann tensor is C r and q is an interior point in , or it may be a singular boundary point if the space-time is not extendable through q in a way . |
| 22 | The second sentence may be a little easier and usually by the end of the first paragraph , students feel more secure ; they are " into " the essay . |
| 23 | Ian may be a romantic , but the cupids and violins have not quite destroyed his sense of the absurd . |
| 24 | The technique may be a taxing one for us as readers , but it ensures that in seizing on details , we shall not lose sight of the ramifications of the whole . |
| 25 | The gates would have been locked , and the porter may be a drunkard but he has his orders . ’ |
| 26 | Since the regeneration of oxidised pyridine nucleotides through H 2 production enables increased substrate level phosphorylation to occur , an efficient H 2 removal may be a contributing factor in maintaining the fermentation balance in the colon . |
| 27 | As a painting tutor , I was conscious that complete beginners may be a little overwhelmed by the sophistication of the written material — some of the thought and painting processes are quite advanced — but this should not prevent them from thoroughly enjoying this unique opportunity to ‘ look over the shoulder ’ of the experts . |
| 28 | It is thought that the consultancy may be a cost-cutting exercise due to the current slump in the UK car market . |
| 29 | Indeed , for a country struggling to emerge from years of war , the election may be a mixed blessing . |
| 30 | An escape route may be a back door , a side road or a low wall fronting a garden . |