Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for the reluctance of the courts to subject operational police decisions to judicial review , it may be apparent that the police have failed to take into account in their decision making a relevant consideration , or have taken into account an irrelevant one , which would leave the decision open to review . |
| 2 | And while it may be admirable that ministers take initiatives to disturb the bland continuity of civil service administration , there is a further , separate question of whether the policies injected by ministers are desirable . |
| 3 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 4 | It has been suggested , on the basis of inhibitor studies , that protein tyrosine kinases ( PTKs ) are involved in LTP , and it may be relevant that NMDA receptor activation leads to tyrosine phosphorylation of MAP-2 kinase . |
| 5 | In this context , it may be relevant that the degree of baryon catastrophe seems to increase with metallicity ( indicating that cooling may be an important factor ) . |
| 6 | Far from being a fault , it may be essential that he should accept massive bodies of conventional knowledge on trust ; not merely assimilating it as a chore , but thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 7 | If there is a particular liability that is causing concern which has been identified prior to contract but is not precisely quantifiable , it may be appropriate that it should not be covered by a warranty at all but by an indemnity or other specific provision . |
| 8 | It may be arguable that some part of the substance used does attach to the article cleaned , even if the rest is rinsed off , so that ownership in that part passes by adhesion to the article . |
| 9 | Given the economic significance of such groups , it may be surprising that neither Parliament nor the courts have yet got to grips with the problems they present . |
| 10 | It may be instructive that the prime mover in the action was an American bank ( Allied International ) which has subsequently ceased operations in London and which withdrew from the action on those grounds , although their vice president in charge of operations at the material time was , and still is , resident here . |
| 11 | And he says while it may be understandable that Channel 4 is reluctant to see so much of their dirty linen washed in public he argues that it is in the public interest that this should happen . |
| 12 | It may be possible that I shall meet them all again one day . |
| 13 | So in the early 1920s some people conjectured that it may be possible that helium — element number two in the periodic table of the elements — could be built from two hydrogen atoms . |
| 14 | And for a female it may be possible that she 's not going to get a full pension anyway , she may have er had time out , not paid contributions right the way through etcetera . |
| 15 | It may be unfortunate that ‘ God Save the Queen ’ is not as toe-tapping an anthem as ‘ The Star Spangled Banner ’ , but the muted reception of the former is surely more a reflection of aesthetics , rather than an indicator of national pride . |
| 16 | It may be evident that eqns 3.1 and 3.2 above imply that a variation in the value of λ ( i.e. in the magnitude of the reinforcer ) from one trial to another will tend to maintain the value of α . |
| 17 | In the hotel it may be evident that staff could learn from the college how better to use computer-aided accountancy packages , or how to improve menu design by using desk-top publishing equipment . |
| 18 | It may be hard that the occupier of land should have no right to compensation for harm done by the fall of a large thing , like a tree , on his premises , but his plight is no worse than in any other instance of inevitable accident . |
| 19 | It may be fortuitous that if we spend this morning discussing criteria , there 'll then be a gap of one and a half working days for those who do n't have to travel far to consider possible answers to the second stream of the dialogue . |
| 20 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 21 | It may be true that the processes of change and of translating policy into practice are convoluted and very hard to manage . |
| 22 | Of course , it may be true that bream only rarely suck from as much as nine inches distance , but I always allow that much on the assumption that they do . |
| 23 | It may be true that under the ERA LEAs have lost an entire empire and not yet found a role . |
| 24 | It may be true that ‘ desire ’ is , as closely as human words can state , synonymous with life . |
| 25 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 26 | It may be true that Satan and the demons plot against the church in hellish councils , but we do not really know . |
| 27 | It may be true that we still believe in the resurrection , but we seem to forget that we must first experience death . |
| 28 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
| 29 | While it may be true that , in speaking , children frequently express in words underlying conceptual distinctions , a number of researchers have suggested that the ability to use language to communicate needs , interests and desires to other people presupposes another , rather different , set of developmental abilities . |
| 30 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |