Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 2 | And the Scottish Highlands may be the only remaining region in the UK where we could find it . |
| 3 | The afternoon may be the best time , as the patients are resting and having visitors . |
| 4 | Seen this way , the collapse of Christendom is a blessing for Christianity , and the present crisis of faith may be the best opportunity in centuries , at least for Christians in the West . |
| 5 | Securing Buick 's position as the marque of self-assurance may be the toughest job of all . |
| 6 | Theory suggests that an exchange rate change may be the appropriate response to a country specific shock . |
| 7 | On the driest uplands of Antarctica and in oases , encrusting grey and orange lichens Buellia frigida , Alectoria miniuscula , Biatorella antarctica , Umbilicaria decussata and species of Caloplaca , Xanthoria , Usnea and Candelaria may be the only visible signs of life . |
| 8 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 9 | Antigone may be the first of all political plays and is surely the greatest . |
| 10 | The supporters of the hunt believe today 's decision may be the thin end of the wedge |
| 11 | So measures of document exposure may be the only direct measures of the benefits of book use which are relatively easy to collect and to compute . |
| 12 | He must be able to decide rightly whether a native chiefs first offence should be punished , or whether patience should be exercised until he has offended ten , nay twenty times — either course may be the right one , it depends entirely on circumstances . |
| 13 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 14 | This verdict may be the last attempt of this generation to keep intact the myth of a unanimously resisting France , for it is now under review by the Court of Cassation . |
| 15 | One sofa measuring eight by four foot must be the largest country house sofa in captivity . |
| 16 | On the one hand , in a certain sense , all the elements which comprise X condition the tribunal 's power to decide upon Y. The statute says , explicitly or implicitly , if X you may or shall do Y. On the other hand , to accept that the reviewing courts should be the ultimate arbiters of the meaning of all the elements comprising the X factor would cause review to become very like appeal . |
| 17 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 18 | The words in section 2(1) ‘ transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer ’ have been interpreted by the courts to require that the transfer of ownership to the buyer should be the main object of the agreement . |
| 19 | On the account of their relative performance against Rovigo , another leading Italian club , the Milanese must be the front runners . |
| 20 | Work in progress must be the genuine transfer of the vendor 's work in progress to the purchaser . |
| 21 | Nuclear equations Nuclear equations must balance , the total mass must be the same on the left and right hand sides . |
| 22 | Ideally this should be the same on all Guide installations , just as , for example , ideally the library of built-in functions for C compilers should be the same on every C installation . |
| 23 | The controversy that followed the publication of the Maastricht Treaty highlighted significant differences between and within member states over the extent to which the process of integration should proceed , and over whether the proposed union rather than individual member states should be the principal location for decision-making in the future . |
| 24 | British Telecom and the water authorities should be the first to be so referred . |
| 25 | Parliament must be the primary place where the conflicting claims and interests of society can be articulated and resolved . |
| 26 | The third implication , that the rocks furthest from the ridge should be the oldest , was less easy to test . |
| 27 | ‘ Pally must be the best central defender in the country . |
| 28 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 29 | Fourthly , extra-contractual referrals are clearly at the discretion of the health authority concerned , but surely clinical decision must be the main criterion . |
| 30 | All bathroom light switches should be the ceiling-mounted , pullcord kind — as should double-pole switches fitted to control an electric shower or a shower pump . |