Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All of that may be true of various couplets of Hebrew poetry , but it is quite other than what is being urged in this paper .
2 That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said .
3 In this case , however , the large flux density at high frequencies means that the expected parallax of 7 mas should be measurable with high precision .
4 ‘ He saw things before anyone else and that must be one of most frustrating things for him as a manager , because he ca n't do anything about it now .
5 In modern societies written records are kept by all kinds of agencies , and some may be available to social researchers .
6 One important distinction between these types of society is that some may be resistant to further development while others facilitate it , and thus a contrast is established between the development of society in Western Europe , through feudalism to capitalism , and the relative immutability of Asiatic societies .
7 1 and 2 may be subject to seasonal variation : 3 is vague about the period covered — the average may be changing .
8 One explanation for this may be that for many jobs it is high productivity which leads to low job satisfaction .
9 While this may be suitable for certain types of business customer and private individuals transferring money into other bank accounts or investments , it is clearly unsuited to small purchases .
10 Many psychiatric units now have no lockable wards at all and while this may be admirable for most in-patients , it has inevitably led to the rejection of mentally disordered offenders who require a modest degree of security and who could benefit from assessment and treatment in an ordinary hospital .
11 This may be present in natural sources such as mine water but may also come from atmospheric pollution , from flocculation with alum , and from reuse of water .
12 This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation .
13 This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments .
14 This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes .
15 This may be due to competing demands for ( limited ) attention .
16 This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements .
17 This may be due to greater familiarity with the cost of lower priced letters or to the greater difficulty of keeping in mind which band of prices the weight related to in the body of the table .
18 Partly this may be due to that hidden psychological impact we have touched on before .
19 In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) .
20 Susan , Carol and Joan use the basilectal [ i ] / [ ] , while Stephen uses [ e : ] / [ o : ] — though this may be due to Eastern Caribbean ( St Vincentian ) influence .
21 Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten .
22 This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child .
23 This may be due to inadequate learning but recent research suggests there is a severe disjunction between what is learned in formal science lessons and what is used in more social and affective situations .
24 This may be due to different mutations within the APC gene causing variations from a total absence of gene product through to protein only partially reduced in function .
25 It can therefore be processed sequentially , and this may be best for some of the applications which use the file .
26 It can not deliver full frame , full motion video although this may be available in later models .
27 This may be overwhelming at first but you will not be expected to have specialised knowledge and skills when you begin work on the ward .
28 As an alternative to foreclosure , the court may direct a sale of the property , and this may be fairer to both parties , since any surplus upon such sale will belong to the mortgagor , while the mortgagee may still sue for any deficiency .
29 On each side of the nave is a single aisle ( though this may be double in larger churches ) and the divisions are made by arcades of piers or columns .
30 This may be true for some , but they are bidding for Palatine !
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