Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the boundary may be a sea boundary , it may be land boundary , it may be an air boundary because the states claim a control over erm particular physical structures . |
| 2 | It may be brine or alcohol and this turns the cheese into what one of my customers calls ‘ garage cheese ’ — smelly ! |
| 3 | It may be mid-1993 before a major economic upturn takes place . |
| 4 | Or it may be childhood , as in the wonderful title story of her previous collection , ‘ On the Golden Porch ’ ( ‘ In the beginning was the garden . |
| 5 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 6 | For the researcher , it may be different things , it may be money , prestige , a claim by his piers , promotion within the team , notoriety , the ac acquisition , new knowledge . |
| 7 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 8 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 9 | It may not be adjusted or working correctly or as it is operated by water temperature , it may be air locked . |
| 10 | For another it may be frustration at the discovery that his body lacks the co-ordination needed to perform a precise movement correctly . |
| 11 | Its BCR number can not be identified with certainty , but it may be No. 6 . |
| 12 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 13 | But you never know , it may be tat all at once you recognise something of yourself that has long been buried in your subconscious . |
| 14 | It may be motivation that proves inadequate or it may be investment . |
| 15 | It may be part of departmental cuts or administrative reorganization . |
| 16 | It may be part of a two-house set-up ( America gets territorial fairness in its Senate , demographic from the House ) . |
| 17 | If I am killed in doing what I feel is right , it may be part of God 's plan . |
| 18 | This may be a specialist unit trust company or it may be part of some other large financial grouping , a subsidiary of a retail or merchant bank for example . |
| 19 | However , it may be part of a larger portfolio revision . |
| 20 | It may be chocolate , oranges , cheese , any number of things . ’ |
| 21 | Timing and service are chaotic , but since this raises wine consumption it may be policy . |
| 22 | It may be spring outside , but inside this cold storage shed it 's permanently Arctic . |
| 23 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 24 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 25 | The compression figures , whilst not particularly low , suggest that it may be camshaft wear . |
| 26 | Exactly what causes it is unknown ; it may be virus or a bacteria , or many interacting factors may trigger the disease . |
| 27 | It may be information or it may be components for incorporation in the contractor 's activities . |
| 28 | A couple of years ago this would have sounded like fiction ; soon it may be fact . |
| 29 | It may be intervention in a crisis , or a task-centred plan sharing the problem-solving activities with the client . |
| 30 | The exercise of cooperating with the other people , even though they 're in the same relative area than in this case it may be use of facilities for leisure , is not very easy and there may be a very very good cause to have a proper course in how to get on with other people , in these sort of cooperative ventures , so thank you for , for drawing our attention to it , it is an interes would be an interesting exercise to . |