Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured .
2 It may be of benefit to contact the newspapers direct , before sending the press release , to encourage interest in the topic .
3 In most cases the horn will be fitted and although it is not necessary to prove why the horn did n't work when operated it may be of assistance to the court .
4 It may be of significance to hon. Members with constituencies in the King 's Cross vicinity that , at the very least , the alternative Baxter scheme will be no less disruptive to homes , highways and places of work than the BR proposals .
5 Right well it may be of course you see on the other hand the accountancy takes three years .
6 Well it may be of course that that kind of thing has always tended to happen gather of society skirmishing goes on and young men are expected to go and find very often
7 It may be of course it 's on , on auction because they ca n't get a mortgage on it .
8 If you qualify and wish to apply for a divorce : send for an application form using the tear-off part of this leaflet , but keep the remainder of the leaflet : it may be of help to you later
9 In cases of contamination of water , it may be of value for indicating the extent and sources of pollution .
10 Therefore , it may be of value to include the value of soluble ICAM-1 in the index of inflammatory activity in the clinical assessment and progression of inflammatory bowel disease .
11 In the case of an off-market transaction it may be of importance to determine the precise legal position of the transferor and transferee pending registration of the transfer which , if there are restrictions on transferability may never occur .
12 Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone .
13 It may be of use to compare the regional groupings of brooch types with those areas which are revealed as high consumers of imported luxury goods ; whilst such a correlation tells us nothing about the mode of production of the brooches , it does provide some articulation to the distribution maps .
14 It may be of interest to readers to detail two stories of born-deaf people who led an adventurous life during this period , for their experiences are unique .
15 It may be of interest to the University , the Civil Eng .
16 In this way it is quickly established that unc Inversion of B as in 1.9(8) then yields unc and then unc It may be of interest to note that if x = { p , q , r , s } is any vector of real numbers , not all zero , then the quadratic form unc may be written ( see also 1.22 , Theorem XIII ) unc where unc so that , where the second term does not involve p , the third p , q , and the fourth p , q , r , unc and is always positive under the conditions given .
17 It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years .
18 But it may be of interest to note , simply through the observation of some important early instruments , that different ways of playing the piano can be shown to have e– ted at the same time .
19 It may be of interest to note that 760 years after this visit there is living in Halling today a person whose grandfather , Robert Langton , a friend and biographer of Charles Dickens , claimed descent from the family of this Archbishop .
20 At a time when we are on the threshold of change , indeed very considerable change , in local government and when our burghs which have been with us since the earliest times are about to disappear , it may be of interest to look at the burghs of Scotland prior to the passing of the Reform Act and their position in the election of Members for the Westminster Parliament .
21 I enclose the details of No. 22 High Street , as I understand that it may be of interest to your wife 's mother .
22 It may be of interest to many , particularly Bennett 's detractors , to know that he disapproved originally of the Main Force having H2S , even the earlier versions .
23 Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others
24 Or it may be for rule breach , such as a late delivery under the LIFFE Bund contract .
25 Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property .
26 So it may be with Japan 's imperial family .
27 ‘ Where my future lies , whether it may be with Williams , Ferrari , or elsewhere , I really do n't know .
28 Many thrusters provided with boards are far too large so it may be worth while investing in a smaller pair .
29 If we are tempted to assume so , it may be worth while looking at yet another parallel to balance the highly peculiar one of race .
30 But if members of Labour 's Philosophical Tendency , from Tony Benn to Bryan Gould , are choosing their words carefully it may be through fear of how they will look in each other 's diaries .
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