Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues . |
| 2 | IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 3 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 4 | For some people it may be of crucial importance , for others the family simply is not a significant source of emotional support . |
| 5 | But I do think the minister er should er b be quite clear about that point er because er it may be of crucial importance , not just to the industry , er but also to the public interest who will want to know what the position is so far as er er these matters are concerned . |
| 6 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 7 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 8 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 9 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 10 | It may be of some comfort to read some words written recently by Gaby Goldscheider , an experienced antiquarian bookseller , in the Antiquarian Book Monthly : |
| 11 | It may be of some interest that the club of Hercules should be so thoroughly integrated in a Celtic religious assemblage , but this requires a specialized and more detailed study than could be attempted here . |
| 12 | If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated . |
| 13 | It may be of some importance to provide in the expert clause that the parties have the right to make representations . |
| 14 | Erm I hope it may be of some interest . |
| 15 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 16 | Although clearly unusual , it would be important to document the presence of this inflammation as it may be of considerable significance to the surgeon considering pouch reconstruction on removal . |
| 17 | This has not proved easy and the following trilogy of United States cases give an indication of the development of tests which may be applicable in the United Kingdom ( United States law has no binding effect on the United Kingdom courts but it may be of persuasive authority , particularly in the field of computer technology ) . |
| 18 | It may be of most value for occasional use , in known responders , to save embarrassment when sleeping away from home . |
| 19 | It may be of vital importance to the seller to get the money instead of the land ; but he will rarely succeed in getting more than his out-of-pocket expenses . |
| 20 | It may be of vital importance . ’ |
| 21 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 22 | There is no good reason why that traditional understanding should now be abandoned , however inconvenient it may be to some of those who would otherwise like to shelter under the umbrella of the term " democracy " . |
| 23 | Anathema as it may be to Welsh Rugby Union ears , this was something they realised at Twickenham at least five years ago and we have all seen the felicitous results . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own . |
| 25 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 26 | It is there , and it will not go away , however hard the authors of the Gospels have tried to disguise it — and however embarrassing it may be for later Christian tradition . |
| 27 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 28 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 29 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 30 | So — hard as it may be for some people to believe — we disinfected the whole place , sloshing the stuff everywhere . |