Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [prep] " 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 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It may be of some comfort to read some words written recently by Gaby Goldscheider , an experienced antiquarian bookseller , in the Antiquarian Book Monthly : |
| 8 | It may be of vital importance . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This only confirms already-existing customary law ; and inasmuch as it depends on proving an actual intent partially or completely to destroy a particular group , it may be of only limited relevance as a basis for assessing the legality of nuclear possession or use . |
| 13 | IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 14 | For some people it may be of crucial importance , for others the family simply is not a significant source of emotional support . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may be of interest to the University , the Civil Eng . |
| 18 | In all three areas the impact upon the third party of the actions of other actors is beyond the control of the former ; indeed from its perspective it may be of little import whether the behaviour of other States inter se is consensual or coercive , until the degree of coercion becomes such that as a member of the international community it must recognise and respond to an illegal act . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In cases of contamination of water , it may be of value for indicating the extent and sources of pollution . |
| 22 | Endotoxin from different organisms although it may be of of different potency has essentially the same biological effects . |
| 23 | Right well it may be of course you see on the other hand the accountancy takes three years . |
| 24 | It may be of most value for occasional use , in known responders , to save embarrassment when sleeping away from home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |