Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There 's been a sharp decline in Britain 's industrial and manufacturing output raising fears among economists that the recession may be deepening . |
| 2 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 3 | The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand . |
| 4 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 5 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 6 | The centre says the recession may be forcing more people to abandon their pets . |
| 7 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
| 8 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 9 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 10 | This polarity of views may be represented in terms of the differential propensities sr and sw . |
| 11 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 12 | On the question of what amounts to ‘ serious deterioration ’ , it is clear that differing views may be reached . |
| 13 | Similarly , the adoption of a common policy for the new firm will be essential : modification or even abandonment of formerly held views may be required . |
| 14 | Such views may be held alongside others in varying combinations . |
| 15 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 16 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 17 | The huge majority of humanity are earthy clods for whom no hope may be entertained . |
| 18 | Other illustrations may be incorporated in the text and are often called ‘ cuts ’ or ‘ figures ’ . |
| 19 | Two simple illustrations may be given . |
| 20 | We have some knowledge of these processes in cases such as proxemics , where our spatial orientation to objects may be observed as both cultural and normative ( Hall 1966 ) . |
| 21 | In this way , the stylized clay objects may be seen as early forerunners of the more recognizable goddess-idols of the Late Minoan period . |
| 22 | The Companies Act 1989 attempts to remove the need for these lengthy clauses by providing that a company 's objects may be stated in any manner . |
| 23 | Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass . |
| 24 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
| 25 | Among the Kwakiutl , discussed above , all objects may be related through a style expressive of an orality in which humankind achieves significance by its place in a universal cycle of devouring and reproduction ( Walens 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Here individual objects may be created and used as the basis of a repeating pattern . |
| 27 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 28 | Some common , fairly recent objects may be brought into school by pupils , or may be fairly easily acquired from junk shops , or as loans from parents or the elderly , although prices are rising even for twentieth-century objects . |
| 29 | Common objects , a marble or pebble , a shell or a shiny conker can be part of a nature table collection and more unusual objects may be borrowed from museums . |
| 30 | The specific objectification of a moral and juridical individual through the use of objects may be found in a wide range of societies , including those where kinship rather than the economy appears to be the dominant organizational principle . |