Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be all smiles … but really it 's war . |
| 2 | Research at the University of Leeds , in collaboration with Imperial College , London , and the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride , is at an early stage , and it may be 10 years before practical applications for supercritical water are developed . |
| 3 | It may be early days to expect a consensus to emerge less than two weeks after the group was established , and it is now too late to forge a common front to influence the Budget . |
| 4 | That is underlined by the absurdity which would result from a literal construction of the word ‘ cost ’ in the case of a loss-making concern such as British Rail or a heavily endowed institution , where the employee 's benefit would have to be valued at a figure in excess — indeed , it may be many times in excess — of the market price of the service provided . |
| 5 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 6 | It is still early days for C&P 's programme and Arthur Thomas points out that it may be many years before some changes will be seen : ‘ For example , look at the way we view the building of plants . |
| 7 | Depending on the geology , the tectonics and thus the topography of the earth 's surface beneath it , it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow . |
| 8 | Moreover , it may be occasional injectors , rather than regular injectors , who are the higher-risk group for spreading HIV , since casual injectors may be more inclined to share equipment than regular injectors , who are more likely to have their own ‘ set of works ’ and to be aware of safe cleaning procedures . |
| 9 | Are you also saying that soap operas , in particular — it may be other programmes as well — are picking up on and creating a space for discussing topics that really are preoccupying people , and rendering conscious a lot of issues that are ‘ out there ’ already ? |
| 10 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 11 | It may be four months away , but the word is that Captain Scarlet and his team of space warriors will be filling Santa 's sack . |
| 12 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |
| 13 | It may be several hours before you realise that the cowpat is a date , and the white bit a blindfold . |
| 14 | Even if these developments start a serious move towards using CD-ROM , it may be several years before multimedia CD-ROM can gain any kind of foothold . |
| 15 | If it is not calories , it may be fat units or fibre units that are counted , or very exact portions of food . |
| 16 | ‘ As soon as I can , but it may be three hours or so . |
| 17 | It may be three weeks before the UN sends in troops to get food to Somalia 's starving . |
| 18 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 19 | I think it may be some weeks before completion of the deal . |
| 20 | For the researcher , it may be different things , it may be money , prestige , a claim by his piers , promotion within the team , notoriety , the ac acquisition , new knowledge . |
| 21 | Should it be as many as seven times and Jesus had replied both no , no you should be able to forgive forgive them seven times , it should be seventy times in other words stop thinking about counting and just get on with the forgiving . |
| 22 | He decided it should be ten metres high with four-metre thick reinforced concrete walls but the workmen were sloppy and the concrete cracked . |
| 23 | Swain and Wohl ( 1961 ) argue that the man-machine concept is oversimplified , it should be man-machine procedures allocation and also that prime equipment should be separated from check-out equipment ( Fig. 1 . |
| 24 | Oh it must be fifty years since I 've seen her . |
| 25 | When planning a new shower cubicle or an enclosure , remember it must be connected ti the main drainage system , so this will affect where you can put it . |
| 26 | Even so , it must be all balls , a mirage massaged from statistics . |
| 27 | It must be six years since the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) first met the manufacturers . |
| 28 | ‘ They commissioned me to write my autobiography — oh , it must be eighteen months ago . |
| 29 | It must be two years ago now since it all began . |
| 30 | Behind the beans , onions , no lupins ( it must be two months now — they must be dead ) and love-in-a-mists on impossibly frail stems curved and gyrated toward the ground , bearing slender eyelid-blue buds . |