Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such views may be due to the sporadic publication of relevant data , particularly that of time series , for statistically more developed countries . |
| 2 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 3 | Cultures may be traditional , achieving or affluent , since culture is a dynamic phenomenon . |
| 4 | In English and sociology , the majority of lecturers may be male , but the majority of students are female . |
| 5 | Apart from that , one of your law lecturers may be able to help . |
| 6 | If these provisions are not adhered to , ensuing contracts may be unenforceable and criminal sanctions may follow . |
| 7 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 8 | The student can not stop the programme and ask questions and discussions may be difficult to organize ; the instruction tends to place the student in a rather passive situation . |
| 9 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 10 | On a closed-string staircase , fillets between spindles may be missing , in which case replace them as necessary , nailing them in place . |
| 11 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |
| 12 | As Working Paper 43 stressed , the work of the library resource centre requires different skills , but these skills may be present in different ways in different individuals ; many people can learn and practice at least two . |
| 13 | In short , all language skills may be subject to automation . |
| 14 | In some cases , however , the information on contacts may be slender , particularly if the sexual encounter followed a pick-up in a pub or resulted from a drunken all-night party which had been gate-crashed , and the contact-tracer may then be involved in trips , often abortive , to the Jolly Fig and Navel in the seedier part of town to try to locate Suzie — ‘ … the one with the long blonde hair , pink mini-skirt , and acne ’ . |
| 15 | We could not grow CTL to 1s6 from all B53-positive donors during the low transmission season for malaria but , as previous work suggested , detectable CTL to P. falciparum may be relatively short-lived in the absence of boosting , and low precursor frequencies may be common because of the very small numbers of hepatocytes infected by each sporozoite inoculum . |
| 16 | This result implies that domain-specific collocations may be superior to general collocations in analysing documents from the same domain . |
| 17 | Bactericidal products may be cationic detergents consisting of QAC-bisguanide combinations or liquid soaps compounded with disinfectant . |
| 18 | These products may be small , tailor-made components , huge pieces of equipment or large single items , such as a ship . |
| 19 | For instance : i ) products may be consistent with widely accepted behaviour patterns which maintain or enhance the traits associated with self image . |
| 20 | Specifically , the products may be gross substitutes in demand : increased sales of one will detract from sales of the other . |
| 21 | For totally symmetric modes of molecules of lower symmetry , ρ is greater than zero , and in some cases may be impossible to distinguish from ρ max . |
| 22 | In species where successful males can monopolize breeding access to large numbers of females but similar numbers of males and females are recruited , direct competition between males is likely to be intense , aggressive interactions may be frequent and the selective advantages of possessing traits that affect success in combat may be higher among males than among females . |
| 23 | The number of funded vacancies may be insufficient for all of them to be offered full-time posts . |
| 24 | Given that these change over time , the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory . |
| 25 | Biologists may be able to determine the shape of molecules made up of amino acid chains , thereby predicting the effect of drugs before such drugs even exist . |
| 26 | Employers may be reluctant to admit using them because the terms of their employment are embarrassing . |
| 27 | The engineering employers may be willing to reinstate the contract as a prelude to revising it . |
| 28 | A photographic company might wish to support our conservation programme for glass negatives ; a charitable trust may be willing to support the microfilming of the archive collection , or the establishment of an image database ; European Community funding may be available for information technology and database work ; potential employers may be able to help with computer training for DHE students ; specialist societies and scientific groups may help to fund image databases or conservation-related biogeographical studies , and educational publishers are likely to be interested in interactive video for schools and colleges . |
| 29 | He was advised that if he did use the vehicle he and his employers may be liable to prosecution . |
| 30 | Some definitions may be administrative , others functional and some may encompass a wider group than others . |