Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 2 | Schooled children , on the other hand , may have been taught that in formal school situations such assumptions must be suspended , however strange that may appear to be . |
| 3 | In most cases , there are insufficient surviving remains to make it worthwhile conserving the site for public display : if it has been fully excavated , all that may remain to be seen are , literally , a few depressions in the natural subsoil , even if what was excavated above was quite spectacular . |
| 4 | ( b ) Capital As the capital resources of the firm will have been reduced by the amount required to acquire an outgoing partner 's share in the practice , so that may need to be recouped from the incoming partner ( possibly with additional contributions being needed from the continuing partners ) ; or , in the case of an increase in the number of partners , additional capital may be needed to finance new activities or new offices . |
| 5 | We will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know , look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but I think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term , we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme . |
| 6 | We do not see why that should continue to be the case , especially if the industry is privatised . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well — that should prove to be an interesting surprise for all , ’ he snorted as he left the table . |
| 8 | Some may prefer to be given a global picture of what is involved in the task and then be allowed to fill in the details as they need them . |
| 9 | Some may prefer to be presented with a prescribed set of facts and skills , whilst others may learn best by being encouraged to discover things for themselves , often as solutions to problems . |
| 10 | Some of its sections and their subdivisions may be found unnecessary when applied to a particular problem ; some may require to be expanded . |
| 11 | Clause 5.10.3 may have to be amended where the premises comprise part business , part residential accommodation , eg high street shop with flats above . |
| 12 | It is often thought that Cichlasoma pair for life , and in the home aquarium , this may appear to be so . |
| 13 | This may appear to be easier , but it is not always wisest , especially for the novice who has never kept large cichlids before . |
| 14 | At first sight , this may appear to be a poor performance but it is in fact over twice as frequent as a random selection ( which for this data would be 32.7% of cases ) . |
| 15 | Now this , this may this may appear , this may this may may be a this may appear to be a a a something farfetched , might this . |
| 16 | This may appear to be a rather strange task to use . |
| 17 | This may appear to be an odd question to pose , but it has a bearing on our approach to the provision of legal services and the involvement of lawyers . |
| 18 | Hence at balance Although at first sight this may appear to be a single balance condition , in order to be satisfied , the real and imaginary parts of the two sides of the equation must be separately equal so that it is in fact a double balance condition as anticipated . |
| 19 | In principle this may appear to be a very cumbersome activity , but in practice it 's not . |
| 20 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 21 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 22 | Once allocated it should be a prime task of the particular worker to do a full assessment , in the knowledge that this may need to be repeated , as the health , morale or circumstances of the elderly person at risk can change rapidly with a knock-on effect . |
| 23 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 24 | This may need to be supported by actual action likely to undermine public confidence in the exchange . |
| 25 | This may prove to be the most expensive contest staged in Britain , but I doubt whether it really will be the biggest since the war . |
| 26 | In other words , some iterative process between SBUs and corporate headquarters will probably be necessary and this may prove to be the key to solving this problem . |
| 27 | For sublanguage processing this may prove to be extremely useful if a large ( raw ) corpus is available , since the word classification will be specifically for that sublanguage type . |
| 28 | Inhibition of MAO-B is also of topical interest since this may prove to be the first manoeuvre that has slowed the progression of Parkinson 's disease ; the mechanism is uncertain but it was originally thought of because this approach blocked the toxicity of the selective dopaminergic poison , MPTP . |
| 29 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 30 | But this may prove to be one of the final fence cutting protests at Upper Heyford . |