Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [noun] " 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 | When we are first trying to establish our values and standards in life , there are certain people , or it may be institutions , upon which we decide we have at all costs to rely . |
| 5 | ICL Hungary general manager Ian Leach is currently in the UK discussing the possibilities with ICL subsidiary Technology Plc , though it may be July before a final decision is taken . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It may be information or it may be components for incorporation in the contractor 's activities . |
| 10 | As I go to bed and shut my eyes — but not till then , though it may be hours since the conclusion of the special visual stimulation — a path through the bush or a winding highway begins to flow past me and continues to do so till sleep intervenes . |
| 11 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 12 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 13 | It may not be adjusted or working correctly or as it is operated by water temperature , it may be air locked . |
| 14 | For another it may be frustration at the discovery that his body lacks the co-ordination needed to perform a precise movement correctly . |
| 15 | Its BCR number can not be identified with certainty , but it may be No. 6 . |
| 16 | West Country Living : It may be roses but it 's not all rats |
| 17 | It may be Africa , and life may be cheap by comparison with that in the Western world , but just try to imagine this happening at Twickenham or Cardiff Arms Park : as the car park revelry goes on late into the night a youth slips into an official marquee and steals some equipment from it . |
| 18 | ‘ Or if they 're not there it may be Canon Wheeler has them for safekeeping . ’ |
| 19 | It may be lack of understanding of the appropriate diet or an inability to put it into practice . |
| 20 | There 's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related . |
| 21 | But you never know , it may be tat all at once you recognise something of yourself that has long been buried in your subconscious . |
| 22 | It may be motivation that proves inadequate or it may be investment . |
| 23 | If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve . |
| 24 | It may be part of departmental cuts or administrative reorganization . |
| 25 | It may be part of a two-house set-up ( America gets territorial fairness in its Senate , demographic from the House ) . |
| 26 | If I am killed in doing what I feel is right , it may be part of God 's plan . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , it may be part of a larger portfolio revision . |
| 29 | It may be chocolate , oranges , cheese , any number of things . ’ |
| 30 | As with every area of social welfare , practical intervention and the legal authority for it may be worlds apart in their nature and effects . |