Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 2 | The DoE may be clear as to what ‘ planning policy recognises ’ , but the reality differs considerably from the official statement . |
| 3 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 4 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 5 | The police do not always allow useless speculation to grow when an obvious link may be misleading . |
| 6 | Cultures may be traditional , achieving or affluent , since culture is a dynamic phenomenon . |
| 7 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 8 | Apart from that , one of your law lecturers may be able to help . |
| 9 | Much incidental mathematical experience may be involved in the organisation and preparation , as well as the clearing away . |
| 10 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 11 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 12 | If these provisions are not adhered to , ensuing contracts may be unenforceable and criminal sanctions may follow . |
| 13 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 14 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 15 | Christie may be new Falkirk chairman |
| 16 | Fortunately , much of this is reversible in recovery , although sometimes , as in encephalopathy ( " wet brain " ) , the damage may be permanent . |
| 17 | The damage may be permanent , and treatment is non-existent . |
| 18 | It seems that the requirement of special damage may be satisfied by potential damage , and it may be possible to rephrase the requirement in terms of the plaintiff having a special interest in or concern with the challenged action . |
| 19 | The student can not stop the programme and ask questions and discussions may be difficult to organize ; the instruction tends to place the student in a rather passive situation . |
| 20 | For though there is a danger that a broad curriculum may be superficial , containing nothing but a passing acquaintance with a variety of different subjects , and though this danger must be constantly guarded against , the purpose of the generalized , ‘ disinterested ’ curriculum is quite different . |
| 21 | Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is , clearly , also very similar . |
| 22 | ( An even higher pension base may be applicable where the cash limit of £71,400 does not apply to old style retirement annuity contracts ) . |
| 23 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 24 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 25 | Continuous salt spray is not a feature of sheltered shores and , except where fucoid seaweeds offer shelter ( Menge , I 976 ) , desiccation may be significant . |
| 26 | If you convert part of your home into an office or into self-contained accommodation on which you charge rent , that part of your home which is deemed to be a ‘ business ’ may be separately assessed — and CGT may be payable when you come to sell it . |
| 27 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |
| 28 | As Working Paper 43 stressed , the work of the library resource centre requires different skills , but these skills may be present in different ways in different individuals ; many people can learn and practice at least two . |
| 29 | In short , all language skills may be subject to automation . |
| 30 | In some cases , however , the information on contacts may be slender , particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed , and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips , often abortive , to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie — ‘ … the one with the long blonde hair , pink mini-skirt , and acne ’ . |