Example sentences of "[vb base] may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I mean may be clearer after some autobiographical reflections . |
| 2 | Well I mean may be there 's there 's there 's an argument on teaching contraception measures . |
| 3 | Many practices are worried that only by taking a fund can they retain some independence from what they fear may be increasingly arbitrary or incomplete control by the family health services authority or its eventual successor . |
| 4 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |
| 5 | We will do so knowing that whatever we do , whatever normal editorial decisions we make may be misinterpreted . |
| 6 | A building society savings account may be held with a second competitor and an insurance policy with a third . |
| 7 | One incidental advantage of personality pieces is that the magazines in which they appear may be able to afford good-quality colour reproductions . |
| 8 | The club has covenanted to keep H24/V72 ‘ in good condition and to deliver up upon the occasion the whole pitch being replaced by new turf or a synthetic surface ; the club or its successors ceasing to exist ; the club or its successors granting the supporter a date and time upon which H24/V72 may be removed . ’ |
| 9 | Show how the Exclusive Or operation can be used to ( a ) clear a word , ( b ) interchange two words without using an intermediate location , and ( c ) add two binary numbers ( And and shift may be used in this last part , but not of course any arithmetic operations ) . |
| 10 | The Olympic weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from Barcelona after a positive drugs test may be allowed to compete after all.The British Olympic Association says it is a possibility . |
| 11 | The variables for each level transform may be defined and fixed , or may be ascribed by associations which are varied or satisfied at each stage ( either by direct calculation or by in-built interactive procedures ) . |
| 12 | Arrested persons must be cautioned in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 13 | I understand that I need not say anything unless I wish to do so and that what I say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 14 | You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so but what you say may be given in evidence . |
| 15 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 16 | The caution shall be in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ … |
| 17 | You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What you say may be true . |
| 19 | ‘ What you say may be true . ’ |
| 20 | It is my duty to advise you that anything you now say may be noted by my sergeant here and possibly used in evidence in any future criminal prosecution . ’ |
| 21 | Detectives are warning the public not to approach the man who they say may be dangerous . |
| 22 | I say may be , because cask-conditioned beer is being reinstated so fast in so many pubs that it is becoming almost impossible to keep up with the total . |
| 23 | Bless our work bless us that all we do and say may be to your glory and for the sake of your kingdom guide us |
| 24 | And anything you say may be taken down they say ! |
| 25 | Slim may be a factor for this , but the main reason is that George senses danger in Lennie 's attraction to Curley 's wife . |
| 26 | render underprivileged and powerless people more likely to be arrested , convicted , and sentenced to prison , even though the amount of personal damage and injury they cause may be less than the more powerful and privileged cause ; |
| 27 | Given this and various of his examples , such as ‘ triangle ’ or ‘ procession ’ , they seem to be ways in which the substances on which they depend may be ordered , organized , or arranged . |
| 28 | There are a number of ways in which support may be offered to students within the Compact . |
| 29 | On the other hand , what you are good at and what you enjoy may be totally different . |
| 30 | A final intriguing example involves a subtle interplay between biotic and physical factors , and concerns the common phyletic trend towards size increase known as Cope 's Rule , which I suspect may be the only important gradualistic exception to punctuated equilibria ( Hallam , 1978 ) . |