Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | However , there are occasions when doing-it-yourself may be less risk-prone . |
2 | The consequences of fire in hospitals and other health care premises can be especially serious because of the difficulties and dangers associated with the emergency evacuation of patients , many of whom may be highly dependent . |
3 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
4 | The types of functions allocated between them may be equally haphazard . |
5 | A number of important questions need to be asked , with all the tact at your command ; some of them may be best addressed to an articled clerk who is already with the firm . |
6 | Social and practical situations are interactive and pupils ' competence in them may be quite different from their abilities with pen and paper alone . |
7 | Many of them are under review and some of them may be virtually ignored in practice . |
8 | If certain organisational features , their dependence on the human resource and their national recognition are all points in common , differences between them may be more marked , more extensive and more culturally deep rooted . |
9 | Branch plants in regions far from head office may be more vulnerable to closure , while the more routine production work which is carried out in them may be more vulnerable to automation than the work done centrally . |
10 | I have outlined one possible approach to reading discourses , whether racist or antiracist , which suggests that what is going on in and between them may be more complex and contradictory than is often allowed . |
11 | On the other hand , the non-standardised dialects of Germany , Austria , and German-speaking Switzerland are all heteronomous with respect to standard German , in spite of the fact that they may be very unlike each other and that some of them may be very like Dutch dialects . |
12 | In many cases , identification of workers with the enterprise which employs them may be only weakly formed but again a community of interest may be established at this level , depending perhaps on the degree of ‘ paternalism ’ of the management , the character of employment conditions in the enterprise , and the degree of craft skill or other interesting aspect of work within the enterprise . |
13 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
14 | The offences may occur within the family or between acquaintances and to report them may be socially disruptive . |
15 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
16 | Everyone must be equally aware of the values and expectations of a successful school . |
17 | Some of them must be near half your age . |
18 | But then she added : ‘ They 're all very plain and I reckon that some of them must be over 60 ! ’ |
19 | I suppose when a very young infant is adopted , the temptation to the parents to pretend that the child was born to them must be very great . |
20 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
21 | I do not consider this ethical in treatment , as I believe that everyone should be fully cognizant of what is happening at each and every stage . |
22 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
23 | All of them should be easily obtainable from good garden centres . |
24 | One advantage of doing this at this stage is that the reader will probably feel able to devote a little extra effort to learning this terminology as the statements of the theorems themselves will take little remembering — many of them should be fairly familiar to him already . |
25 | I may be rather naïve for the big city , but I 'm learning fast . |
26 | I equally do n't want to sail into something that is er pretty undesirable and as my Noble Friend Lord Boyd-Carpenter says if we do that then almost certainly I do n't know I may be completely wrong , I 've got enormous faith in the my Right Honourable from my Noble Friend the Chief Whip and even more f faith in all my friends beh behind me whom I know will er go in , in the right direction because they think so erm superb , but My Lords er I would obviously like to see whether there is any way in which we can bridge this divide . |
27 | I may be completely wrong . |
28 | I may be downright wicked . |
29 | Then Ronni conceded as her chest continued to heave , ‘ I may be just a little out of breath . ’ |
30 | I may be already spoken for , but I 'm also a normal , red-blooded male . |