Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think to yourself now what am I giving , what am I giving in the contribution box now as compared to one , two , three , four , five , years ago , it may be the same and it may be as much as you can afford , well if that 's so , then that 's grand is n't it ? |
| 2 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 3 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 4 | It may be if the trustees pay the 35 per cent rate less the tax credit the Revenue will agree to apply the concession treating the entire payment as one which has borne tax as required by B18 but the situation does not come within the wording of B18 . |
| 5 | so erm er or indeed it may be if , if you ask him or if you ask in the general office it may of erm tt it may have it may have been marked by now and so er |
| 6 | We covered this earlier and it may be because the coach feels that you are not capable of performing well under the pressure of an actual competition . |
| 7 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 8 | If that class is sadly numerous today , it may be because of a common belief that ‘ British poetry has chosen to turn inwards , parochial , self-comforting and serviceable ’ . |
| 9 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 10 | If there is little or no improvement on the Step 2 diet , then it may be because there is a general yeast sensitivity , due to candidiasis ( see p 184 ) . |
| 11 | However , it may be because of some problem to do with the job itself or the working conditions . |
| 12 | If one or two of your shots are less sharp than they might be , it may be because the conditions did not suit your particular autofocus ( AF ) system . |
| 13 | Alternatively , it may be because particular educational placements have very limited opportunities and few resources for this kind of activity . |
| 14 | If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started . |
| 15 | Or it may be because the recogniser has for whatever reason , not suggested the correct letters . |
| 16 | Where this is not the case , it may be because males can not identify the breeding potential of young females or because female choice pre-empts male competition rather than because variation in success is slight among males . |
| 17 | It may be because the juniors act independently with equal quantities of youthful enthusiasm and historical ignorance that they get themselves into situations that the dinosaurs have seen before . |
| 18 | Or , as Alfred Pacquement , director of the Jeu de Paume , observes , it may be because , ‘ the 1980s fostered the illusion that a proliferation of exhibitions and museums , together with the overnight success of certain artists , indicated a reconciliation between the general public and avant-garde art , more than a century after the historic rift ’ . |
| 19 | This may be because by now she is find the spelling test hard and is getting anxious ; or it may be because she can not make an accurate guess at the way new words are pronounced . |
| 20 | It may be because their investigation is primarily concerned with children 's speech , but , in describing the discourse topic as the ‘ question of immediate concern ’ , Keenan & Schieffelin appear to replace the idea of a single correct noun phrase as expressing the topic with the idea of a single correct phrase or sentence . |
| 21 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 22 | It it may be because erm they believe he has access to money or money er I would say here and now that information is wrong but er there would appear to be no other motive for this attack . |
| 23 | If your bills are always sailing through taxation as drawn , it may be that your draftsman is getting it spot on , but equally it may be because the bills are being constantly understated and therefore are found to be unobjectionable . |
| 24 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 25 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 26 | South Tees Health Authority will hear on Thursday it may be because teenagers can not always get condoms easily and they do not have the negotiating skills to insist that condoms are used during sexual intercourse . |
| 27 | I think it 's fair to say , particularly in the case of Wales which is perhaps one of the more surprising erm elements there , Wales as you know has tended to be quite a strong region during the recovery period erm it may be because er certain , I think a lot of although as I say Wales is a weaker region in terms of the expected |
| 28 | Society must ask how much more risk-averse it should be than the people it is trying to protect . |
| 29 | It should be before Tracey goes . |
| 30 | It should be whether or not it is addressing the defined needs of a group of people . |