Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system .
2 However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system .
3 Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture .
4 It may be communicated to the court in the following ways : ( a ) Oral testimony Witnesses may be called to give oral evidence to the court .
5 More generally , it may be asked to what extent it is appropriate to regard collective bargaining — the explanatory variable in Clegg 's theory — as an independent and primary determinant in its own right , rather than as a transmission mechanism for other forces .
6 Whenever an enabling bill is submitted , it is passed to the relevant committee or committees for detailed scrutiny and recommendations ; in turn it may be sent to one or more subcommittees .
7 Substituting into the right-hand side of ( 8–47 ) , and using ( 8–49 ) and ( 8–50 ) , it may be seen to be proportional to .
8 It may be related to the German ficken ( to strike ) and the Latin pungere ( to prick ) , but the connections have not been proven .
9 In the absence of money , property will tend to be highly specific , and the group it may be related to relatively small .
10 It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years .
11 It may be seen as expressing the personality of the author , in accordance with the famous formula of the French scholar Buffon ( 1978 : xvii ) , that the style is the man ( ‘ le style est l'homme même ’ ) ; or it may be related to a literary movement or period ( e.g. futurist style , baroque style ) .
12 While we can not be sure why , it may be related to their greater likelihood of having financial difficulties and need for more financial support .
13 It may be related to the catheterisation of the coeliac trunk and the splenic artery .
14 Can you tell me how to reduce it as I have lost fish for no apparent reason and I suspect it may be connected to the high nitrate level ?
15 Bar-Belle 's Len Perry says that it may be converted to an L-4 Grasshopper , or it may be painted pink and called Tinker-Belle !
16 It may be said to be on the right lines , but at best it provides materials for an answer to the logical question , materials which it does not combine properly .
17 However , it may be said to be fairer than the Community Charge in that the tax does , at least , rise with the value of the house and it is reasonable to assume that those living in more expensive houses have higher incomes than those living in less expensive dwellings .
18 The standing of the statement needs initially to be determined and it may be elevated to the rank of contractual term if the courts consider on the facts that this was the intention of the parties .
19 If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
20 Where the plan is subordinate to the verbal description it may be referred to in order to elucidate boundaries , so long as it does not conflict with anything explicit in the verbal description ( Wiggington & Milner v Winster Engineering [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 436 ) .
21 Application to set aside must be made to the judge ( s 64(4) of the 1984 Act ) save under Term No 5 when it may be made to the arbitrator himself .
22 There may be no crust on the far side , and even on the near side it may be confined to certain regions , such as beneath the maria , though the majority view is that the Moon does have a global crust .
23 It may be interpreted to be against the letter also .
24 It may be considered to be a vital British interest that we are not on the outside of the single currency in five years ' time .
25 Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves .
26 Its cause is unknown , although it may be linked to a very long-delayed immune reaction to a virus infection years previously .
27 It may be linked to recurrent tonsillitis and the broken nights can cause sleepiness during the day , aggressive behaviour and difficulty with homework .
28 It will not have to be either critical or challenging , although elsewhere in the world , among less fortunate nations , it may be found to be so .
29 Sessions may be timetabled on a regular basis — once a fortnight or once every five lessons , say — or it may be left to teachers to request the room when they want to use video .
30 It may be in Page 8 the form C : \dir1\file1 or if the search is to be confined to the current disk it may be simplified to \dir1\file1 .
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