Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since it suits ill with his vocation , and perhaps bodes no good to — the other one — neither of them may be anxious to say it openly for all to hear . |
| 2 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 3 | However , this embraces a wide variety of behaviours ; the relationship between them may be cooperative or coercive ; their roles may be ill-defined or clearly-defined , overlapping , conflicting etc . |
| 4 | British people realize that for better or worse their destiny is inextricably intertwined with that of the U.S. even though some of them may be reluctant to admit it . |
| 5 | Some couples whose cohabitation has worked well for them may be surprised , hurt or bewildered when , legally married , they find their relationship deteriorating . |
| 6 | To them may be added differences in fertility levels and patterns , in prevalence of contraceptive use and in organized activities to regulate fertility . |
| 7 | Some of them may be able to start up new interests , but it 's usually best to start from their own experiences in life . |
| 8 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 9 | As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one . |
| 10 | ‘ You were quite right to come and what you 've told me may be important . |
| 11 | If coal is to be the choice , does my right hon. Friend agree that scrubbers are essential at coal-fired power stations and the type of coal put into them must be low in sulphur dioxide emissions ? |
| 12 | If a sequence of six enzymes is needed for a particular synthetic pathway , all six genes for making them must be present . |
| 13 | Each of them must be aware of what that role is and understand how crime affects profitability , investment and employment opportunities . |
| 14 | Since the majority of modern machines have airbrakes which are held closed by a geometric lock , it is essential that the method of checking them must be foolproof for this kind of system . |
| 15 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 16 | Put crudely , that law states that if A contradicts B , at least one of them must be false . |
| 17 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 18 | All games ’ pitches and ornamental areas are out of bounds , even though the areas adjoining them should be okay . |
| 19 | The administrative effort involved in collecting them should be devoted instead to improving enforcement of other taxes , ’ argued a recent International Monetary Fund study . |
| 20 | The fact that students ask a question about something fairly commonplace and then it happens to me must be pure co-incidence . |
| 21 | Just seems that it , it to me must be wrong , that it did n't identify them because a particular picture anyway , the reason why I find difficulty in making |
| 22 | For some languages of expressions it will be possible in general to decide these facts ( though perhaps not very efficiently ) , and in any reasonable language thee should be wide classes of pairs of expressions whose equivalence is decidable . |
| 23 | You need a link with the world as you realise subconsciously that yours may be frail . |
| 24 | I only speak from observation ; yours may be different , I grant . |
| 25 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 26 | He may condescend perhaps to think I may be good enough for his harlot and these things do n't disgrace men that ruin poor women as the world goes . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear girl , I may be moronic as far as modern music is concerned , but I have attended classical concerts in my time . |
| 28 | I may be unkind , but I 'm not unfeeling . |
| 29 | I may be guilty of exceeding the speed limit . |
| 30 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |