Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions . |
| 2 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 3 | But time-wise the gap between them may well be much more important than the time-span within them . |
| 4 | I and 2.0% suggesting that some of them may still be within the gas window . |
| 5 | A very , very few of them may still be alive today , with their memories . |
| 6 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 7 | ‘ If it is so important to you , Miss Kenton , I will allow that the Chinaman behind me may well be incorrectly situated . |
| 8 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 9 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 10 | The title is imitated from the delightful Ivy and Stevie ( about Ivy Compton-Burnett and Stevie Smith by Kay Dick , though my materials are very different from hers and therefore the pattern that I shall construct from them must also be very different . |
| 11 | The inferences are systematic , they are decodable by different interpreters in the same way , and without most of them the exchange can not be understood ; most of them must therefore be part of what is communicated , in Grice 's strict sense of meant-nn . |
| 12 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone should therefore be vigilant , and pilots will notice the presence of cracked panels by creaking sounds when they are on the wing walkway ’ , says the CAA . |
| 14 | Removing them should also be quick by simply depressing the sleeve of the holder in the direction of the arrow so the bit can be pulled out . |
| 15 | Rags and dusters with polish , window-cleaning liquid or white spirit on them should also be removed . |
| 16 | As a general rule , nothing should ever be put on gold leaf . |
| 17 | As the distinguished chemist , Cornford , said : ‘ The doctrine is based on the theory that nothing should ever be done for the first time . ’ |
| 18 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 19 | I may even be abroad for some of that time . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 21 | My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight . |
| 22 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 23 | I may well be addressing a future Inquisitor — ’ |
| 24 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 25 | Just across the street from here , I think — although after so long I may well be mistaken . |
| 26 | ‘ I may just be able to tell you after his funeral . ’ |
| 27 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I may yet be of some temporary use to my Chapter if I can be salvaged . |
| 29 | ‘ Having delivered my mea culpa , ’ Burney said , ‘ I may nevertheless be able to atone for my lapse . |
| 30 | ‘ If there was somewhere you might stay in the meanwhile , I may shortly be in a position to help you . ’ |