Example sentences of "whatever [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 2 | We can say , however , that whatever may be true of acquired distinctiveness , the reality of acquired equivalence must be accepted . |
| 3 | Whatever may be said about his lordship these days — and the great majority of it is , as I say , utter nonsense — I can declare that he was a truly good man at heart , a gentleman through and through , and one I am today proud to have given my best years of service to . |
| 4 | If you seek to see them with loving eyes , you will experience their beauty and be aware of their good points while making allowances for whatever may be lacking . |
| 5 | Whatever may be the instigating factor in a piece of research , whether it be a random observation or a sudden thought in the library , there is a common form of procedure which can be used for the research . |
| 6 | Whatever may be happening to the rest of the economy , litigation is booming and so , apparently , is fraud . |
| 7 | However it ought to be possible to bring the reasons for it out into the light , and by doing so to show that whatever may be said of Tolkien 's view of reality , it was neither escapist nor thoughtless . |
| 8 | Whatever may be the degree of transference between generations , what is much more clearly established is the high proportion of attitudes and behaviour characteristics unconsciously learned by children and taken right into their adult experience . |
| 9 | For a number of reasons , therefore , it seems rather over-simplistic and legalistic merely to state baldly that , whatever may be the position on the illegality of use of nuclear weapons , their possession as such is not illegal ( Brownlie , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Whatever may be thought of this — I have softened it in translation — there can be no denying its intense urgency and power . |
| 11 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 12 | I think the most commonsense response to this objection is as follows : whatever may be the theoretical case about competing interpretations of low-level code in the machine , we need to remind ourselves that , if this machine is ‘ paying tax refunds ’ , as opposed to ‘ directing missiles ’ , then it is actually printing large rolls of cheques at its peripheral devices . |
| 13 | Whatever may be the differences in detail , the overall direction of change in behaviour , the trend in the civilising movement is everywhere the same . |
| 14 | Whatever may be changing in the field of production and finance , the distinctive patterns of upper-class consumption , education and social contracts are thriving . |
| 15 | Whatever may be true of the world , and , as follows from what has been said of necessitation , our conception of an effect is not a conception of an event that occurs if a usual background exists , or an event which follows on something required for it , but might not have occurred , or a merely probable event . |
| 16 | Whatever may be the logical difficulties of a principle of induction ( and there has , of course , been much written on the subject from David Hume to Karl Popper ) , as a methodological strategy it is essential for science . |
| 17 | Different types of pupil will gravitate towards different sub-topics , but all will have the common link of starting from the same stimulus ; it will be possible for all children to contribute to whatever may be the concluding feature , such as an exhibition , poster or class booklet . |
| 18 | Whatever may be the effect of the Practice Direction read against the word of the statute the present case was clearly one where the judge , if he had a discretion about the matter at all , should have allowed the convictions to be put to the witness . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the courts have long recognised that , whatever may be the theoretical position , there are far-reaching limitations in principle on the exercise of that jurisdiction . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it has long been recognised that , whatever may be the theoretical position , there are far-reaching limitations in principle on the exercise of that jurisdiction . |
| 21 | I do not think that section 3(1) envisages any such act as an ‘ appropriation , ’ whatever may be the meaning of that word in other fields such as contract or sale of goods law . |
| 22 | Whatever may be its points of similarity to , or difference from , other countries ' villages as social institutions , it has very special qualities of picturesqueness , not of course to be confused with quaintness . |
| 23 | Whatever may be the case in practice , the formal constitutional position of the administrative and coercive elements is to serve the state by serving the government of the day . |
| 24 | ‘ But I ca n't be true to the old evil in me , and be false to — whatever may be potentially good in me now ! ’ he cried . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it should not be forgotten that , whatever may be said in the Maastricht Treaty , the European Court held in its Opinion 1/91 on the European Economic Area Agreement that , having regard to the Treaties then in force , the Community already had the objective of achieving European Union . |
| 26 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 27 | Whatever may be our private feelings about the modern scholarship on Posidonius , one of its most durable results is the reconstruction of Posidonius ' chapters on the Celts . |
| 28 | Whatever may be said about Ecclesiastes — and many things have been said about him — he decried traditional wisdom . |
| 29 | This restriction of the kernel function K1 is discussed by Volterra ( 1931 ) and shown to be a requirement of the theory of hereditary phenomena , when the phenomenon always follows the same course as it passes successively through the same conditions , whatever may be the relative position of these conditions in time . |
| 30 | Whatever may be done to turn CD-ROM into a vehicle for multimedia , it is never likely to appeal in volume to the consumer market . |