Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [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 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |
3 | The data from the recession may not be useful in managing in normal times but on the other hand may help in managing the next recession . |
4 | THE recession may still be biting , but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend . |
5 | A male may not be aware or the possibility or a female 's alternative reading of what an object constitutes or signifies ; similarly , it may never occur to a member of a one social class that some revered object may be subject to a parodied and subversive interpretation by members of another . |
6 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
7 | For in secondary schools , so often organised in this way , a child 's experience may not be as ‘ coherent ’ ‘ broad ’ and ‘ balanced ’ as the curriculum planners imagine . |
8 | Guidelines for acute severe asthma based on hospital experience may not be an appropriate yardstick by which to judge how asthma attacks are measured in the community . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Such damage may however be considered under 4*/5* Maxplan Contents policies as accidental damage . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | In the end , the failure to offer an entitlement curriculum may not be a failure of the National Curriculum , but of the market-led sections of the Reform Act . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom . |
17 | Ingleston ( 1986 ) , discussing an updated surgical dressings technique , declares that masks are not needed , while Ayton ( 1985 ) questions the use of masks even in theatre and says , ‘ if there is good ventilation , the levels of airborne contamination may not be altered whether masks are used or not ’ . ] |
18 | It may be true that ‘ an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters ’ . |
19 | This is , of course , no indication that strenuous aerobic exercise during pregnancy is not harmful , but an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters of pregnancy . |
20 | The right of the fetus may not be the only — or even the main — consideration in the abortion issue , as anti-abortionists insist . |
21 | If there remains an insistent voice that keeps telling you there is something ‘ wrong ’ with sleeping twelve hours a day , or reminding you of how much there is to do , turning into a vegetable may not be an effective technique , and something more explosive or cathartic may be required . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The required yield from the division may then be stable for long periods , apart from variations in the level of interest rates generally . |
24 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
25 | ( 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 . |
26 | Your skin may now be soft and smooth but it 's probably lily white too . |
27 | Bargaining may therefore be more concerned with the maintenance of specific policies or particular organizational arrangements . |
28 | Our sense of smell may not be as advanced as most animals ' but aromas have huge effect on our mental and physical states . |
29 | But , in a situation in which an arboreal habitat has led to a reliance on visual cues and a generalized body-structure and postural suppleness , even the correct mating-position may not be obvious and automatic as it is in many other animals . |
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 . |