Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | God grant that it may not startle only to be read and pondered by thoughtful brains as well as by feeling hearts … |
| 2 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 3 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 4 | Imposing English at all levels of the education system may not turn out to be either practical or appropriate . |
| 5 | This may not turn out to be so easy . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |
| 7 | These arrangements are an unknown quantity and the administration may not turn out to be up to scratch . |
| 8 | Rocks may not seem initially to be particularly magnetic . |
| 9 | They most likely represent recently emigrated monocytes and may thus turn out to be highly responsive young ‘ inflammatory macrophages ’ . |
| 10 | The plump man who , unfortunately , did n't have an up-to-date snapshot to send her , may just turn out to be that elusive Mr Right . |
| 11 | Meanwhile for Carol 's pupils , the course fee may just turn out to be the best £7.50 their parents ever spent . |
| 12 | Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully . |
| 13 | " It 'll probably turn out to be something really simple . " |
| 14 | No one could be sure where lay the Terra Australis Incognita which Ptolemy had postulated , and which Mercator had argued was a necessary balance for a spherical world , without which the whole planet might simply topple over to be lost among the stars . |
| 15 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 16 | Should she prove to be young and pretty this might even turn out to be a pleasure . |
| 17 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 18 | But it might then fail dismally to be causally adequate . |
| 19 | Jimmy chartered two Canadair CL44 cargo aircraft and in order to get the left and right stabilisers and rear fuselage sections on board , had to cut much of the wreckage — without , of course , destroying any evidence that might subsequently turn out to be required . |
| 20 | So , paradoxically , smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones ! |
| 21 | But your pre-meeting estimates may quickly turn out to be wrong . |
| 22 | The long line of leading Conservatives on the platform fixed their faces into expressions of interested concern , and prepared themselves for what could only turn out to be a surfeit of oratory . |
| 23 | He was crazily frightened and awfully ashamed , so that , when he heard voices , men speak outside the cubicle , he could not yell out to be seen this way . |
| 24 | Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest . |
| 25 | Eventually , those waging their campaign against her found they were losing , and furthermore , they quickly realized they could n't afford not to be seen as a Katherine Lundy party . |
| 26 | Your very first field landing could even turn out to be the most difficult field of your whole gliding career . |
| 27 | Dave Sims opened Northampton up and prop Andy Deacon bulldozed through to score what could well turn out to be on of the most important tries of the season … |
| 28 | Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks . |
| 29 | The events may also turn out to be Fergie 's biggest folly financially . |
| 30 | Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern . |