Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 2 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 3 | we can maximise the space if you get in that leg room of about one millimetre or lie down on people 's laps and then we can build or may be even lie down on |
| 4 | Neuronal membrane-bound forms might function only in close association with target Schwann cells or may be proteolytically clipped and released . |
| 5 | Some common , fairly recent objects may be brought into school by pupils , or may be fairly easily acquired from junk shops , or as loans from parents or the elderly , although prices are rising even for twentieth-century objects . |
| 6 | These particles may carry either a positive or a negative electrical charge , or may be electrically neutral ; some have mass or weight , others appear to be weightless . |
| 7 | Hence , worthwhile projects may not proceed or may be unnecessarily delayed , and plans may suddenly have to be changed when constraints are tightened ( see also Likierman , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | The spicules may be only loosely associated within the sponge tissues , or may be more or less fused to form rigid skeletons . |
| 9 | But in many booths the presiding officer is in cahoots with the capturers , or may be too terrified of local toughs to protest . |
| 10 | The social stratification that results may be ill-defined ( as in North American societies ) or may be fully institutionalised , as in India where a rigid " caste " system operates . |
| 11 | Few librarians would agree that censorship has anything to do with book selection , and indeed as we shall see they are or should be diametrically opposite operations with entirely different functions . |
| 12 | As the maximum extraction of grape juice or must was also set at one litre of juice per one and a half kilograms of grapes , this production limit could also be expressed as 7,500 kilograms per hectare . |
| 13 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 14 | Preparation for day care transport was sometimes an important role because , if left to themselves clients might either not be ready in time , or might be ready too soon and while waiting go out to do something else ( forgetting that transport was due ) ; in either case they would consequently miss their transport and therefore their day care . |
| 15 | The territory was not densely settled and while emigrants to America might be loyal subjects of Charles II , in Virginia , or might be deeply distrustful of him on religious grounds , as in New England , they were not certainly united with one another . |
| 16 | This can be taken from a plastic bag with a decorative design , or could be just a piece of plain colour cut into a shape . |
| 17 | One of the principal ways in which the Russian state undermined native culture was by purchasing the collaboration of chiefs , where they existed , or could be arbitrarily designated . |
| 18 | It depends upon their conceptions of how they ought , or would be best advised in their own interests , to behave with respect to these top-management definitions of their duties end obligations , their rights and privileges , and their relationships to the material technology , to higher authority , and to each other ’ |
| 19 | If it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and it is entitled in respect of its individual accounts to the exceptions conferred on a small company by section 246 ( or would be so entitled but for being a member of an ineligible group ) and it is not required to prepare group accounts for that year , the resolution is effective if passed at a general meeting at which the accounts for that year are to be laid . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) The covenant implied by subsection ( 1 ) ( " the lessor 's repairing covenant " ) shall not be construed as requiring the lessor — ( a ) to carry out works or repairs for which the lessee is liable by virtue of his duty to use the premises in a tenant-like manner [ below ] , or would be so liable but for an express covenant on his part , ( b ) to rebuild or reinstate the premises in the case of destruction or damage by fire , or by tempest , flood or other inevitable accident , or ( c ) to keep in repair or maintain anything which the lessee is entitled to remove from the dwelling-house . |
| 21 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 22 | The central problem for the government is to determine the value of the subsidy to the ‘ social ’ railway , that is the services that would not exist or would be extremely highly priced without state support , and to set appropriate targets for the ‘ commercial ’ railway . |
| 23 | That was what had caused it , of course , of that she was convinced , or would be once she 'd had time to work on it ! |
| 24 | Diniz is ready to take you as friend , or will be soon . ’ |
| 25 | Swan and Pearce ( 1988 ) have attempted to establish the generality of the principle that the strength of the OR will be inversely related to the predictive accuracy of the stimulus by using a procedure other than partial reinforcement . |
| 26 | The teacher who knows her class will judge best which of these projections the class will be most comfortable with or will be most challenged by . |
| 27 | Go easy on him ; one way or another he is or will be very distressed . ’ |
| 28 | COHSE says trusts and units are joining a ‘ lemming-like rush ’ to abandon their current systems in favour of job evaluation , despite scant proof that the system works effectively or can be properly adapted to nursing . |
| 29 | If you 're buying a car stereo , try to get one which is either security coded or can be easily removed and taken with you when the car is parked . |
| 30 | Provided sufficient funds are available or can be easily recovered in order to meet unexpected claims , this pool of funds can be invested in earning assets by the companies to provide a further source of income . |