Example sentences of "[det] [modal v] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of cellular activity , that may be relevant to behaviour , that does not get translated into action potentials . |
| 2 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 3 | The tape-recording may also preserve a good deal that may be extraneous to the text — coughing , chairs creaking , buses going past , the scratch of a match lighting a cigarette . |
| 4 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 5 | Surely that must be obvious to everyone who met him . |
| 6 | Some may be attributable to the initial aim of the binary policy to create a sector with a more applied or vocationally relevant emphasis and ethos , although the extent to which that was eroded in the 1970s by ‘ academic drift ’ is open to question ( Pratt and Burgess 1974 ; Donaldson 1975 ; Neave 1978 , 1979b ) . |
| 7 | In modern societies written records are kept by all kinds of agencies , and some may be available to social researchers . |
| 8 | Once all the information has been incorporated , the sequence of phases will have been assigned dates at various points , although these will be of differing quality : some may be accurate to a few years , others only to the nearest couple of centuries . |
| 9 | One important distinction between these types of society is that some may be resistant to further development while others facilitate it , and thus a contrast is established between the development of society in Western Europe , through feudalism to capitalism , and the relative immutability of Asiatic societies . |
| 10 | Amnesty is concerned that those who remain detained may not be receiving adequate medical treatment for the seriousness of their conditions and some may be close to death . |
| 11 | This may be unacceptable to the vendor . |
| 12 | This may be unkind to Salisbury , but compare his Madras figures of two for 142 in 29 overs in India 's innings against those of his opposite number , Kumble , whose combined total was eight for 125 in 46 overs . |
| 13 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 14 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 15 | Partly , this may be due to the fact that outside the tropics atmospheric circulation is from west to east , due to Coriolis forces , the forces which result from the effect of the Earth 's rotation on moving bodies . ) |
| 16 | This may be due to a reduction of free water clearance resulting in elevation of the blood volume and suppression of renin while the osmotic effect of hyperglycaemia may further exacerbate the problem . |
| 17 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 18 | This may be due to the generation gap . |
| 19 | This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation . |
| 20 | ( On Mori figures , the swing was relatively low among Express and Mail readers , but this may be due to sampling variability . |
| 21 | Certainly the feeling excited here is strange and unusual , and this may be due to the confusion in the man 's mind between his sheep and his children ( lines 21–30 , 81–90 ) . |
| 22 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
| 23 | This may be due to the ‘ halo effect ’ of expecting bad behaviour from a child labelled as naughty . |
| 24 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 25 | In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) . |
| 26 | I believe that this may be due to the sense of security and feeling of being safe which comes from familiar methods and tasks . |
| 27 | This may be due to the fact that the article appears to be ‘ lifted ’ from my newsletter which appeared in the Autumn 1992 edition of the ‘ Cornishman ’ magazine . |
| 28 | This may be due to its availability as a popular aquarium fish , but it certainly can not be attributed to lack of sex identification . |
| 29 | This may be due to the coarse resolution of the model ( 3.5 km vertically ) and a number of uncertainties remaining in the model calculations , such as the initial distribution of the volcanic cloud and the amount of SO 2 injected . |
| 30 | This may be due to eagerness to get to bed or to various other factors including lack of sleep , worry about contacting more senior surgical staff , lack of proper training or control by senior staff , and pressure not to leave matters that may interrupt the next day 's elective list . |