Example sentences of "and [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Traces of this can be found in shamanism and Mithraism , and may well be part of the ancient Egyptian mysteries .
2 It is unfair ( and may also be sex discrimination ) to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant , or for any other reason connected with her pregnancy , unless :
3 Sometimes the people engaged in them will have attitudes to , and feelings about , old people which are not acceptable and may even be ageist .
4 Saddam Hussein may be defeated and even killed but the Saddam phenomenon will survive and may even be nurtures by war .
5 These tubes have to be fitted with high-polish reflectors , and should not be tubes that peak strongly in the blue colour spectrum .
6 Work habitually done on an ad valorem basis may be quite uneconomical and should perhaps be time charged .
7 On the transport of nuclear weapons , which is covered in the Drell report and should therefore be part of the Oxburgh report , will the right hon. Gentleman undertake to give local authorities notice when nuclear weapons are to be transported through their localities ?
8 Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) .
9 Ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease belong to the group of idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases and could theoretically be extremes of the same disease .
10 Title searches , for instance , are not necessarily specific item searches and could well be subject searches .
11 Slower decisions are made to nonwords such as " burd " and " phace " rather than those like " deve " and " slist " , even though all four are word-like and could conceivably be words .
12 All this talk about scum reminded me that over here ( Montreal ) scum is an acronym for a um er feminist group called the Society for Cutting Up Men … they are a nice bunch of girls and would probably be Man U fans if they watched football .
13 They would , in effect , become banks and would presumably be members of the monetary sector .
14 The government stated that the members of both forces were to be absorbed into the army and would not be part of a new National Civilian Police force .
15 ‘ But he is sick and ca n't be spoke withal .
16 But we 've got ta next week where Newton who are top and ca n't be beat have gorrit .
17 Rothmans are to put over £100,000 into the county over the next seven years and will also be title sponsors of the opening home match , the Sunday League game against Lancashire at Durham University on April 19 .
18 However it is believed a small number may still be provided with a home help at meal times and will not be part of the new scheme .
19 Forster observed in 1874 , ‘ the only belief much felt is that we are not and will not be papists . ’
20 And from our analysis of the signal extraction problem we can deduce that economies with highly volatile aggregate demand will be economies in which a high proportion of unexpected local price movements are attributed to aggregate demand shocks , and will therefore be economies in which shocks to aggregate demand have little impact on real output .
21 Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians .
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