Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may also be a good option if you purchase materials as a group ; you can then share out the paper , cut to size as required . |
| 2 | For girls themselves , it may also be a daunting prospect , especially if they 're feeling rather vulnerable and embarrassed about their condition . |
| 3 | It may also be a social problem , but sociologists are just as interested in trying to explain ‘ normal ’ behaviour and events as they are in trying to explain the deviant or the abnormal . |
| 4 | Both prominence and deviance have a negative , as well as a positive side : a feature which occurs more rarely than usual is just as much a part of the statistical pattern as one which occurs more often than usual ; and it may also be a significant aspect of our sense of style . |
| 5 | I hope that that will be the case not later than April ; it may well be a good deal earlier . |
| 6 | In local government it may well be a small group of chief officers and committee chairpersons that control decisions . |
| 7 | The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company . |
| 8 | BUT IT MAY WELL BE A SOUND ONE , IF IT COMES FROM STODDARD TEMPLETON . |
| 9 | It may well be a different group on different issues . |
| 10 | It may well be a social skill but I think it 's |
| 11 | But it may well be a happy life , and that we may be taking away . |
| 12 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 13 | So it may just be a seasonal thing . |
| 14 | It may simply be a normal problem which a minor tackle or bait adjustment can deal with . |
| 15 | It may simply be a fundamental divergence of attitude . |
| 16 | It may then be a difficult political task to reverse these defeats on the floor of the House . |
| 17 | It may then be a momentary thought , a fleeting hope , the colouring of a feeling , the forming of an intention , a decision , a choice , a continuing sensation , an inactive or an active sensation ( pp. 221 f. ) , a persistent mood . |
| 18 | ‘ It may only be a temporary measure . |
| 19 | Otherwise the score is remarkably clear , indicating that it may possibly be a fair copy . |
| 20 | The Catholic Church screwed up sex by making it too important whereas it should just be a natural , integrated part of everyday life . |
| 21 | But it must also be a good time to invest in Europe , possibly through the Morgan Grenfell European Growth fund . |
| 22 | Since a large whisker is in no way different from any other crystal except in size it must also be a general explanation of the strength and weakness of all brittle crystals . |
| 23 | It was then argued , in effect , that since " the family " ( in this sense ) is a functionally useful institution it must also be a necessary institution . |
| 24 | That plan has not been mentioned recently , ( although it must still be a live prospect ) mainly because New Zealand are not yet convinced that rugby in South Africa will soon be integrated to the satisfaction of all sporting groups in the Republic . |
| 25 | If you must have a larger design for practical reasons , then it must still be a boxy shape , not slouchy or scruffy . |
| 26 | It might also be a total disaster and leave the chasm as wide as before . |
| 27 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 28 | It might just be a good week or a bad week . |
| 29 | All right then , it might just be a fabulous walk , but whatever the reason it 's helped wear a deep wide scar up the glen that the scenery could well do without . |
| 30 | Or let him acknowledge that while it is rational doubt for him as a liberal humanist to criticize the Buddhist , the Marxist or the Christian , it might equally be a rational doubt for the Marxist to criticize him as a humanist . |