Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 2 | The general rule , however , is that for you to be justified in ending the relationship , the breach of contract must in itself be serious . |
| 3 | ‘ Stir up we beseech Thee , O Lord , the wills of Thy faithful people ; that they , plenteously bringing forth the fruits of good works , may of Thee be plenteously rewarded . ’ |
| 4 | It urged countries to revert to containing the disease at levels that their own general health services , rudimentary though may of them were , could cope with . |
| 5 | Again the countryside suffered with the closure of rural lines , may of which were in Wales . |
| 6 | The two are not distinct — development of management knowledge bases in this area may of itself be seen as one of the prerequisites and/or pressure points leading toward structural review and change . |
| 7 | The mechanism and pathophysiological significance of this abnormality remain unclear , but it may be a remnant particle accumulation which might in itself be atherogenic ( e.g. , like LDL ) . |
| 8 | I know I could of there was n't enough words . |
| 9 | Canvassers should have training , which could in itself be fun for them . |
| 10 | Yet the clarity and rigour may in themselves be problematical . |
| 11 | In the case of developing countries , different dates of origin may in themselves be expected to lead to quite different features in their industrial relations despite the attainment of a similar stage of economic development . |
| 12 | It lumps together subjects which are in some ways profoundly dissimilar , and erodes distinctions which may in themselves be significant not only conceptually but in terms of policy . |
| 13 | ( d ) Recognise the medium of the message — for example , the style , language , form or mode of expression may in themselves be of importance , and some attempt should be made to convey them in the precis . |
| 14 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 15 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 16 | The enormous handicap such a tail gives a male may in itself be what attracts the female to the male . |
| 17 | Secondly , the estimated number of children in lone-parent families is subject to considerable error , through under-counting in the Census and through the large sampling errors involved in grossing up ( at the national level , which may in itself be inappropriate for individual Authorities ) from the General Household Survey . |
| 18 | Compulsive stealing may in itself be a form of gambling . |
| 19 | By the time we conclude our comparison of fabliau and exemplum at the end of this book we shall face a very similar formulation of the difference between the two as lying in the fabliau 's divergence from the normal modes of exemplum , which may in itself be funny , rather than in an all-preceding intention to be funny . |
| 20 | Alternatively , applying one standard figure to a variety of contract values may in itself be unreasonable . |
| 21 | She used to they were made of cotton , cotton aye . |
| 22 | And we never used to we were about three times home in that er five years time . |
| 23 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 24 | er Well the one that best was , he used to he was older than me but and er I was very sorry . |
| 25 | Father used to he was a great gardener . |
| 26 | She was the one who used to She was the one who used to s sell pullovers |
| 27 | Oh me mother used to she was to have a sofa in front of the window . |
| 28 | Should you despatch goods to us or perform work for us in accordance with this order without such an acknowledgement , this shall of itself be deemed an acknowledgement falling within this paragraph . |
| 29 | The reduction of single-width road passing places blocked by parked cars would of itself be a considerable benefit . |
| 30 | Each one of the following would in itself be almost an insuperable barrier to having the real issues of the case examined . |