Example sentences of "and [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extreme irritability ; does not want to talk or be disturbed and may later be stupefied , a state of stupor bordering on unconsciousness even . |
| 2 | A pro forma invoice may be sent before goods are delivered : if the customer is a new one and the manufacturer does n't know if he will pay his bills ; or if the goods are being sent on approval and may later be returned to the manufacturer . |
| 3 | Such images have little flexibility and may easily be destroyed by mundane realities . |
| 4 | The principal differences are that Welsh district councils are responsible for refuse disposal as well as collection , and may exceptionally be designated to provide libraries and certain other services . |
| 5 | Consequently the chapter is for the benefit of those with a critical interest in homoeopathy and may conveniently be glossed over by those with a less scientific turn of mind . |
| 6 | They fear that having separated post and telecommunications , France Telecom will receive the lion 's share of the budget and may ultimately be privatised altogether . |
| 7 | This idea of historical study as the rigorous combination of knowledge and method is central to any defence of a key position for history in the curriculum of the 1990s , and may best be summed up in the term " historical literacy " . |
| 8 | This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more . |
| 9 | This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more . |
| 10 | ON the golf course , 1989 was a vintage to declare and may well be the source of good things to come in the publishing world . |
| 11 | This means the customer has to walk right through the store and may well be tempted by other items . |
| 12 | The management can be a rejecting object and may well be confusing and inconsistent , so much so that workers can not make sense of them and their demands . |
| 13 | Traces of this can be found in shamanism and Mithraism , and may well be part of the ancient Egyptian mysteries . |
| 14 | A good example is the ‘ right ’ to tax diversion ( see Dignan , Chapter 6 ) — while British Courts are prepared to listen to arguments based on statutory rights , and may well be prepared to listen to arguments grounded in International Law , they are far less willing , at present , to accept arguments based on concepts of ( natural ) rights . |
| 15 | You have no money and very little sense , and may well be invited to write a regular column for PFK . |
| 16 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 17 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 18 | However , Socata makes no twins and may well be interested in the big value commercial market . |
| 19 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 20 | The arithmetic can not be faulted — and may well be judged too clever by half . |
| 21 | down and , and may well be just one person requiring and you 've got somebody else to go down |
| 22 | This would seem to be most applicable to Quadrant 4 types of innovations , and may well be counterproductive in the other areas . |
| 23 | It is identical to the first carriages provided for the W.C.J.S. and may well be one of them . |
| 24 | However , this matter can not be considered resolved and may well be central to future development of our understanding of wall flows . |
| 25 | They certainly occur in a variety of detailed configurations and may well be a universal feature of convection driven by the lower diffusivity component . |
| 26 | The Trusts are in serious financial difficulties and may well be one million pound or two million pound in debt before the end of this financial year . |
| 27 | The Trusts are in serious financial difficulties and may well be one million pound or two million pound in debt before the end of this financial year . |
| 28 | In extensive trials throughout Europe this method of control has given good results and may well be the forerunner of other similar devices . |
| 29 | Snipe Hall is unbeaten in three starts , including a Windsor clash with Pommes Frites , and may well be better than she can be strictly rated on her length win at Beverley last time . |
| 30 | Cherrykino , meanwhile , is the last descendant from the family of the great Irish steeplechaser , Arkle — winner in his time of three Gold Cups — and may well be the one to spring a surprise . |