Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 2 | The police do not always allow useless speculation to grow when an obvious link may be misleading . |
| 3 | Much incidental mathematical experience may be involved in the organisation and preparation , as well as the clearing away . |
| 4 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 5 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 6 | Fortunately , much of this is reversible in recovery , although sometimes , as in encephalopathy ( " wet brain " ) , the damage may be permanent . |
| 7 | The damage may be permanent , and treatment is non-existent . |
| 8 | It seems that the requirement of special damage may be satisfied by potential damage , and it may be possible to rephrase the requirement in terms of the plaintiff having a special interest in or concern with the challenged action . |
| 9 | For though there is a danger that a broad curriculum may be superficial , containing nothing but a passing acquaintance with a variety of different subjects , and though this danger must be constantly guarded against , the purpose of the generalized , ‘ disinterested ’ curriculum is quite different . |
| 10 | Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is , clearly , also very similar . |
| 11 | ( An even higher pension base may be applicable where the cash limit of £71,400 does not apply to old style retirement annuity contracts ) . |
| 12 | Continuous salt spray is not a feature of sheltered shores and , except where fucoid seaweeds offer shelter ( Menge , I 976 ) , desiccation may be significant . |
| 13 | There are also classes-in-struggle in every society , but the nature of these varies according to local circumstances and history : thus in one place there may be struggle within civil society between religious groups , for example , whereas in others such struggle may be absent , despite a lack of religious homogeneity . |
| 14 | The mode of use of the road should be clearly defined , although some restriction on user may be implicit in the physical nature of the road itself ( St Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance v Clark ( No 2 ) [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 468 ) . |
| 15 | Your GP may be able to offer out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 16 | Your GP may be able to point you in the right direction , and it 's worth finding out if the psychology department of your local hospital takes referrals . |
| 17 | Your GP may be able to off out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 18 | Beautiful girls and champagne may be powerful western symbols , but they are useless in a Middle Eastern context . |
| 19 | The champagne may be warm , and the waitresses clueless . |
| 20 | Cheap champagne may be unpredictable these days , but no one in their right mind would flush these wines down the loo . |
| 21 | Where the lease itself does not expressly fix the lessor with notice of the partnership 's interest , the individual named lessee may be liable as principal . |
| 22 | Acts of self-sacrifice or heroism may be rational , and so understandable , in this sense . |
| 23 | If there is any suspicion that the building may be inhabited entry must not take place without police assistance . |
| 24 | For patients with vascular abnormalities endoscopic cautery may be appropriate . |
| 25 | The driver may be forthcoming that his boss said words to the effect that he knew there was no insurance but the vehicle was the only one available and the journey had to be undertaken . |
| 26 | Although money may be available for firms to borrow and interest rates may be low , investment will not be increased because of pessimistic expectations . |
| 27 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |
| 28 | Help with payment may be available from social services . |
| 29 | The opportunity may be available to gain publicity as a result of an approach by radio or TV seeking information and/or an interview . |
| 30 | Most cases of pathological phimosis result from balanitis xerotica obliterans , while the remainder may be due to a different , distinct fibrotic disease . |