Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) .
2 Such comparisons may involve other individuals or may be between one group and another .
3 According to the position of the court in the hierarchy other courts may be bound by the ratio of the case or may be in a position to overrule or amend it .
4 No they do n't I mean , the whole point is with P O A is what 's wh what we 're doing is sorting out should the customer be on P O A or should be on net list .
5 In Oscar Chess Ltd v Williams [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 370 , Denning LJ suggested that a binding promise might be inferred from the circumstances if the seller stated a fact which was or should be within his own knowledge , and of which the buyer was ignorant , intending that the buyer should act upon it , and with the result that the buyer did act upon it .
6 The stages are listed here not because this is exactly what every survey is like , or should be like , but because survey researchers have to consider all these points at some stage , and usually in roughly this order .
7 Then , by an extraordinary fortune , the three Cambridge chairs of divinity which were or could be in his field of study fell vacant within three years .
8 A pleasant place to live , or would be in summer , but a little bleak and windswept at this time of year .
9 The employment contract between the parties dealt with this eventuality by the continuance of such payments to the employee after he had ceased to be employed " provided that the agent 's entitlement to such commission will immediately cease if the agent enters into a contract of service or for services directly or indirectly with any limited company , mutual society , partnership or brokerage operation involved in the selling of insurance or would be in breach of any part of clause 9A hereof were this contract still subsisting " .
10 Displays would either flick between functions at the touch of a button or would be like a television screen , showing all sorts of information at once .
11 ‘ I think I was a stripper in my previous life , or will be in the next , ’ she said , curling her leg round an opulent red curtain .
12 I can not say that the letter is in the drawer and mean that the cake is in the cupboard , or that the letter was or will be in the drawer .
13 Anyway , all these books are mine , and so is the whole house , or will be in a few years ’ time .
14 Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future .
15 In practice the employer must show two things : ( a ) the existence of trade connections which are to an extent " special " to him ; and ( b ) that the employee is or will be in a position to take advantage of those special trade connections .
16 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
17 Information can be of the most detailed kind ( usually processed by computer ) , or can be of a judgemental nature ( usually in a written report ) .
18 We should park a little of our funds in those societies either tipped to convert to a public company or ripe for takeover to benefit from any freebies that may be on offer .
19 And so therefore if anybody has amendments that they wish to make to the deliverance as it is , we will take them if necessary one by one and vote for them as they are presented to us , and then we 'll come to any other counter motions that may be on hand .
20 If our legal system allows companies the ability to make profits and trade unions to bargain collectively for wage increases , then we should not be surprised that companies will wish to exploit profit opportunities and trade unions secure higher wages whenever possible , however inconvenient at times that may be to the government .
21 Where politics forces one identification , it also dissolves others — prior social groupings that may be of much greater age .
22 The application of regional geochemical maps for land use planning was demonstrated as they indicate areas characterised by major and trace element excesses and deficiencies that may be of importance to the health of crops , animals and directly to humans .
23 Also Mama would like to speak with your guardian about something that may be of benefit to you .
24 She looked from Aggie to Ben , and it was Aggie who said , ‘ Something that may be of benefit to you .
25 We have asked your embassy to see if she has any connections that may be of interest to us .
26 She argues that while the research provides clues about the types of preventive programmes that may be of help we also know what a complex problem child abuse is : The implication seems clear .
27 Siliceous spicules of demosponges occur in strata in Iran that may be of Ediacaran age , and claims for Precambrian sponge spicules need re-examination , especially as protistan biomineralization , possibly of silica , is known from the preceding Riphean Period ( Fig. 1 ) .
28 Now I wanted to tell you a little bit too before we leave about one of the ARC publications that may be of interest to those of you who are self-propelled .
29 Two institutional reforms that may be of particular importance in the explanation of the growth of foreign portfolio investment are the abolition of foreign exchange controls and the reduction of transactions costs in securities markets .
30 Can I give you a bit of something that we picked up last week that may be of some benefit to you ?
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