Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 2 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 3 | Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers . |
| 4 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 5 | Political parties , for example , may not present such an ‘ open face ’ to women ; their agendas may be of less interest to women or women may face more difficulties in fitting in with their timetables and organisation . |
| 6 | This includes the Installation , Process and Storage Directories ; the User accounts may be on any of the VAXs in the network . |
| 7 | The constant updating of all media contacts should be of top priority and should not be put off and off until a spare moment arrives . |
| 8 | It was natural that their products should be in great demand . |
| 9 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 10 | MITI believes that such exports should be of less concern to advocates of managed trade than consumer goods , because components increase the competitiveness — and therefore the export potential — of the industries that buy them . |
| 11 | Since the keywords must be in upper case , you may wish to use the |
| 12 | Then on the fourth month the birds should be in full production of fours , threes and maybe a few twos . |
| 13 | These hospitals and units may be of two kinds . |
| 14 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 15 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 16 | The ridden horse 's ears may be at half mast indicating that he is relaxed and listening to his rider . |
| 17 | Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract . |
| 18 | Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds . |
| 19 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 20 | Lines may be curved , zig-zag or straight , for example , and blobs may be of different sizes . |
| 21 | National recommendations are clear : 60–80 mg of gentamicin twice a day , and peak concentrations should be between 3 and 5 µg/ml , not 9 µg/ml as suggested in the first case history . |
| 22 | By end of this period around half of all small shops and restaurants should be in private ownership , and the number of joint-stock companies formed out of large state enterprises should reach 1,000-1,500 . |
| 23 | To be eligible , candidates should be aged 36 years or over and have worked in construction for a number of years at a senior level . |
| 24 | Ah well I 've got a little note that questionnaires should be in green folder . |
| 25 | But in advising that the switched cable links into homes should be of narrow band width coaxial cable rather than optical fibre , the information-technology panel was being short sighted , according to some observers . |
| 26 | ‘ I had no idea that business trips could be like this . ’ |
| 27 | She said , ‘ You do realise that these designs could be worth thousands of pounds , do n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | FRIED 100-year-old sea monster in breadcrumbs could be on Scottish menus next year , depending on a £50,000 research project into deep water fish stocks west of the Hebrides . |
| 29 | Too close a contact with leading journalists could be of more benefit to the media than it is to you . |
| 30 | It was decided that their successors would be of similar size and anew steel cutter was designed by Technical Branch with a length of 80 feet , a beam of 16 feet and a draft of 6 feet . |