Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 2 | THE recession may still be biting , but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend . |
| 3 | When the subject enters the political arena and becomes politically controversial , we assume an elective silence on the political issues and confine ourselves , if we intervene at all , to constitutional or legal questions or views on practical matters affecting the law and its administration where our views may naturally be expected and sought . |
| 4 | As external forms , however , objects may also be independent of the interpretation of any one particular group , and their consistency as a material presence may belie the actual variety of meanings they evoke . |
| 5 | The decision to withdraw from the NPT may well be part of that . |
| 6 | These languages and their related cultures may also be studied as components of the MA(General) . |
| 7 | Some societies and cultures may indeed be more pleasant to live in , just as some seem more exciting and others nastier . |
| 8 | Coins may also be acquired from various sources ; local finds or gifts of collectors may give very different pictures . |
| 9 | Coins may also be found and reported on a casual basis by interested members of the public or systematically searched out by treasure hunters with metal detectors . |
| 10 | The higher success rates obtained for Imperial units suggest that out of school experience may well be an important factor in making the associations required . |
| 11 | It seems likely that for a parent or spouse , the experience may well be comparable to the sorts of events and difficulties implicated in depression . |
| 12 | Others still may be associated with specific circumstances ; but we must remember that every problem is founded upon the impact of circumstance on the personality of the individual or persons concerned , so that earlier experience may again be involved . |
| 13 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 14 | However , as explained at page 32 below , dealings on exchanges which are not recognised investment exchanges ( RIEs ) or designated investment exchanges ( DIEs ) may in fact be treated as " off-exchange " for the purposes of the COB Rules ; moreover , qualifying futures contracts may still be within the money market exemption ( see page 24 below ) provided that they are not bought or sold , or expressed to be as bought or sold , on an RIE . |
| 15 | Such damage may however be considered under 4*/5* Maxplan Contents policies as accidental damage . |
| 16 | If during repairs , further underlying damage is found , this damage may only be accepted as coming within the cover of the policy if it is directly related to the incident giving rise to the claim . |
| 17 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 18 | PI_TEST.EXE may then be run by invoking the following command : |
| 19 | Attitudes may well be negative if employees have cause to believe that after moving to a strange area , they may face redundancy . |
| 20 | Helping the patient to modify such attitudes may sometimes be necessary before he is able to change his behaviour or effectively pursue tasks necessary to achieve his chosen goals . |
| 21 | Settlement was denser in some areas than in others , although such a division may only be recognised , as suggested by Peter Fowler , from late Bronze Age times onwards . |
| 22 | The required yield from the division may then be stable for long periods , apart from variations in the level of interest rates generally . |
| 23 | ( i ) A member of staff ( including a partner or director ) other than a solicitor who holds a current practising certificate may only be named in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , if the status of that person is unambiguously stated . |
| 24 | Shortages of skilled manpower and management skills may well be immediately traceable to these developments but they are not , by any means , wholly attributable to them . |
| 25 | Your skin may now be soft and smooth but it 's probably lily white too . |
| 26 | Bargaining may therefore be more concerned with the maintenance of specific policies or particular organizational arrangements . |
| 27 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 28 | Voluntary and private services and clubs may also be of use . |
| 29 | The pen and ink drawings of Mike Wilks may never be the same again . |
| 30 | Jensen 's measure may now be defined as , Essentially , it is an estimate of the difference between the actual risk premiums and the premiums predicted by the ex-post CAPM and may be interpreted as an abnormal return . |