Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your GP may be able to point you in the right direction , and it 's worth finding out if the psychology department of your local hospital takes referrals . |
| 2 | Your GP may be able to offer out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 3 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |
| 4 | The opportunity may be available to gain publicity as a result of an approach by radio or TV seeking information and/or an interview . |
| 5 | No matter what benefits the salesperson discusses , the buyer may be reluctant to change from his present supplier or change his present model because to do so may give rise to unforeseen problems — delivery may be unpredictable or the new model may be unreliable . |
| 6 | That may also be construed as a counter offer , which the customer accepts by retaining the goods ; however , if a delivery note is sent with goods , and received by the buyer 's warehouse staff , the buyer may be able to argue that those staff have no actual or apparent authority to accept an offer . |
| 7 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 8 | The credit card company is the person who provides the credit ( i. e. is the creditor ) and therefore the buyer may be able to bring a claim against the credit card company for a misrepresentation by the seller . |
| 9 | The alcoholic may be able to do without a drink for days . |
| 10 | Yet that change may be slow to come . |
| 11 | Repeated faecal examination by smear , flotation , or Baerman technique may be necessary to find the characteristic teristic L1 , which bears a subterminal spine on its S-shaped tail . |
| 12 | Reliability of assessment may be difficult to achieve . |
| 13 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 14 | This used to happen on both the Chipmunk and the Tomahawk where the elevator control loads become much heavier during the spin and where a half-hearted movement forward on the stick may be insufficient to stop the spin . |
| 15 | First one has to ask whether as between the alleged wrongdoer and the person who has suffered damage there is a sufficient relationship of proximity or neighbourhood such that , in the reasonable contemplation of the former , carelessness on his part may be likely to cause damage to the latter , in which case a prima facie duty of care arises . |
| 16 | ‘ Snapshot ’ flash may be superior to echo planar imaging in some instances , especially where appreciable amounts of bowel gas are present . |
| 17 | An immediate complication is that an impurity is only a minor component of a mixture , and so some regions of its spectrum may be difficult to study . |
| 18 | There are still things which your University may be able to do for you . |
| 19 | For example , a writer who signs an agreement with a 60:40 split may be able to negotiate a rise of 5 per cent in every year of the contract . |
| 20 | Some handwriting may be difficult to read due to a lack of visual clarity , but most readers can perform some sort of recognition resulting in a meaningful interpretation . |
| 21 | The cause of a biliary tract stricture may be difficult to determine radiologically . |
| 22 | In this instance , the very fact that a school cares enough about the success of its female pupils to try an experiment in single-sex teaching may be sufficient to account for their improved performance . |
| 23 | In other instances medical intervention via naso-gastric feeding may be necessary to aid the child gain weight sufficiently to be out of immediate danger ( Goldbloom 1984 ) . |
| 24 | The distinction could be between two sounds which are not in themselves difficult to distinguish , but the contrast may be difficult to hear because it is new . |
| 25 | Therefore , people who suffer from intellectual impairment may be unable to acquire adequate knowledge and to respond quickly and appropriately to a threat to safety . |
| 26 | The possibility that abnormalities in intestinal motor function may be important has also been recognised . |
| 27 | Additionally , some regions of the genome may be hard to clone by virtue of their DNA sequences ( 8 ) . |
| 28 | It also looks at the potential profits which British Aerospace may be able to make by selling redundant sites in Llanelli , Bathgate in Glasgow and the Cowley plant in Oxford which is due to close in the 1990s . |
| 29 | If their conditions are satisfied , the drafter may be able to disregard the Act . |
| 30 | The West may be reluctant to become involved in the fighting but it can at least leave Belgrade in no doubt that the price of aggression will be diplomatic and economic isolation . |