Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey results , which are closely watched by Government and in the City , will raise hopes that the end of the recession may be in sight . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole of Stalinvast may be in chaos in the ordinary sense , but Chaos as such has nothing to do with it . |
| 3 | In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town . |
| 4 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 5 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 6 | Money may be in the form of some physical item that is actually handed from one person to another : for example , gold , silver , other coin , banknotes , or even something like cigarettes . |
| 7 | Good health resides in areas under more direct personal control , and those with time to investigate such matters as exercise and nutrition may be in a better position than a doctor to arrive at an accurate understanding . |
| 8 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 9 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 10 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 11 | These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 12 | These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 13 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 14 | Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours . |
| 15 | Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker . |
| 16 | This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance . |
| 17 | A more radical change may be on the way : a report by the UK Institute of Health Services Management concludes that ‘ General taxation must be reconsidered as the major funding of the National Health Service if it continues to fail to deliver adequate levels of resources ’ . |
| 18 | The research aims to explore the possibilities of trip chain analysis sufficiently to establish in what ways the technique may be of value to practising transport planners . |
| 19 | Since the trust charged on the curator has failed , their entitlement may be in jeopardy . |
| 20 | In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product . |
| 21 | The unity may be in data structures , power structures , or in environmental trends . |
| 22 | The historic route may be under the accountant 's scrutiny shortly : the recession in the building industry has led to a falling demand for cement and traffic is down to two or three trains per week . |
| 23 | That 's tru that 's the only part may be of traditional sales that you |
| 24 | and computer may be via ribbon cable or individual wires drawn together into a neat harness secured with cable ties . |
| 25 | Anyway , defeat in the County Shield may be for the best because , let's not be hasty , but after just four games we look like having Division Three wrapped up . |
| 26 | A pleasant period is ahead of you , as opportunities for socialising with others of your kind may be at their peak . |
| 27 | In drawing this essential balance between flexibility and simplicity , the drive system checklist 4 in the appendix may be of value . |
| 28 | ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . ) |
| 29 | The endoscopic Doppler ultrasound may be of diagnostic value in the evaluation of Dieulafoy 's disease when bleeding has stopped spontaneously . |
| 30 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |