Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book .
2 Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers .
3 Many judicial review cases concern situations of immediate importance to ordinary people — whether the Home Office could prevent people buying a new TV licence before their current one had expired in order to avoid a licence fee increase ; whether an immigrant will be allowed to enter Britain or will be sent back whence he or she came ; whether a landowner will be allowed to build on his or her land .
4 Most of these ideas can be used directly as you knit or can be sewn on afterwards as a pleasant ploy during the holiday season .
5 Rubber Girl stores easy in raft or can be blown up to add extra floatation .
6 They will wash four to six place settings , can stand on the draining board or worksurface , or can be built in below using a kit supplied by the manufacturer .
7 The twin handled grill pan pulls forward horizontally to a safety stop position or can be lifted out altogether .
8 These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen .
9 The quality , calibre , extra capability and extra commitment that they give are well worth any time that may be given up to volunteer reserve service .
10 Personal sources provide a view of intangible aspects of the environment that may be filtered out by written media .
11 I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 .
12 I trust you will look favourably on both these applications and on any others that may be sent in by the various organisations within the village .
13 It is the sort of knowledge that may be laid down in rules and can be learned from books .
14 But if the negotiators do allow them to fail after all , or if the United States Congress rejects any compromise that may be worked out during the next two months , the effects will be disastrous .
15 This will record any restrictive covenants that may be set out in full in the body of the certificate or may more commonly be referred to in a transfer deed , which may be sewn into the back of the certificate .
16 It is the purest form of finding out about an ancient site , but it does depend on the ability of the observer to distinguish information that may be coming in from a variety of sources .
17 Relocation company counsellors assigned to families moving to Britain also provide information on activities that may be taken up by the spouse .
18 They will fly to strange people in strange places as long as there is food about , because they are much more interested in food than in anything that may be going on around them .
19 They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course .
20 Company policy may also specify a limit as to the number of surveys that may be carried out at company expense .
21 This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group .
22 The Essex pair and debut-making fast bowler Andy Caddick are the only three names that should be written down automatically for Lord 's at Saturday 's selection meeting .
23 Now the problem with that model of proceeding is that you then end up with you can end up with the exploitation of complain procedures for a wide variety of , not all of which you want to countenance , and some of the universities ' and colleges ' experience of trying to run complaint procedures in connection with sexual harassment has been deciding when to try to cool someone down and when a complaint is someone that should be run along with .
24 In future , however , energy matters would be kept under review by a new advisory panel of independent experts which would suggest how information should be interpreted on the way in which markets were developing and studies that should be carried out , similar to ones which were commissioned for the coal review .
25 Besides trends that come and go , there are basic pieces that should be snapped up at every opportunity — anything that has been hand-made or finished : beaded and embroidered cashmere cardigans , beautiful lace shirts , superbly cut Thirties and Forties jackets or satin brocade robes .
26 Having said that , I feel that there are significant aspects that should be brought out in order to put the matter in perspective .
27 What Ryedale is seeking is not a figure for its sector within the Greater York area , and the same with the other districts , but rather a figure for the Greater York area as a whole , and then a figure for the remainder of those parts of the districts outside the Greater York area , so you do n't get a situation with my colleagues on the left where you are in the structure plan dictating the number of houses that should be allocated in , for example , two parishes .
28 Other Commissariats were accused of holding on to rolling-stock that should be handed back now the war was over .
29 Politics can often skew decisions that should be taken on their merits .
30 The research project would lead to proposals concerning the amount of land that should be taken out of production , which land should be chosen and by what means ‘ set-aside ’ can be encouraged .
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