Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fickle it may be but , while in its intense form , it can lead to the greatest heights of courage and self-sacrifice . |
| 2 | It may be but , yeah . |
| 3 | In reality , it may be but it is a weapon available to both parties to an action to force production of information which is not being produced voluntarily , or with sufficient speed . |
| 4 | ‘ It may be but I intend to eat first . |
| 5 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 6 | The actual quality in the , in the er print the sharpness , er that sort of thing , is perhaps not quite as good as it should be but I still , an eight for that one . |
| 7 | How it should be but never could be , she thought ruefully . |
| 8 | Life is rarely as it should be and , given that Bowe ran scared of him , the WBC belt fits just right . |
| 9 | The silk shawl she draped over her shoulders winter and summer was in place ; her mother of pearl brooch was at her neck as it should be and her shoes were shining as immaculately as ever . |
| 10 | The Sola grill has glass sides to keep the heat where it should be and the sheer controllability of gas means you wo n't waste energy . |
| 11 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 12 | She feels the DoH guidance is not as detailed as it should be and , to some degree , is misleading . |
| 13 | So the box is lighter than it should be and the price the consumer pays is too low . |
| 14 | below what it should be and that we are asking single-person households , on average , to subsidise households of two or more persons in the payment of the council tax . |
| 15 | If not I suggest it should be and , er , therefore if unfortunately the profits of the company did go down in the foreseeable future the salaries of yourself and your directors would be reduced . |
| 16 | Why not get people that is activists and Oldham might well the branch for Oldham you 've got Dave from Stockport they 've got a MP retiring , they 're getting on now , you 've had , we 've had your time now , for God 's sake go you 've been there long enough , let's get the activists in , let's get G M B members and let's get this parliament back to what it should be and not the Tories . |
| 17 | If the B Ed was a degree which enjoyed the status of all other first degrees , then it must be and be seen to be academically respectable . |
| 18 | It might be but it might not be either , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Though the outlook for the UK is not as bright as it might be and the US is likely to take a knock from an end of price discounting in the car market , Europe looks set to turn in another strong performance . |
| 20 | Though the outlook for the UK is not as bright as it might be and the US is likely to take a knock from an end of price discounting in the car market , Europe looks set to turn in another strong performance . |
| 21 | If any readers have an idea what it might be and how it may be put to good use , please let me know — IM |
| 22 | And because if you 're just looking at every word separately everything lo you 've got to learn so many things have n't you if you can pot the patterns and then you can start having a a guess at what it might be and getting it right most of the time and then you gradually learn them as you go along . |
| 23 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 24 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 25 | it might be and I 'll go over the level crossing I 'll think , ooh that was a bit |
| 26 | It might be and oh ah I was just sat there going mm , yes I believe Hannah ! |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 28 | It might be or it might not . |
| 29 | Nenna felt sure that there was no-one that it could be but Edward . |
| 30 | It could be but I think that the question is asking is , in Plato 's view , do each of us have an equal chance of performing this transcendence , or in view do we each have an equal chance of performing this transcendence ? |