Example sentences of "may [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 2 | Art politics or cultural history are favourite themes for such reviewers , apart from the spectrum of cognate disciplines which may be the specialities of writers who are only occasionally concerned with art . |
| 3 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 4 | However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous . |
| 5 | It is sometimes quite hard for a person to do the unconventional , but that may be the only safe option . |
| 6 | Using the ailerons during the recovery , for example , may be the means of entering one of these other modes of spin . |
| 7 | In some circumstances it may be the best thing to do . |
| 8 | Now may be the time they are willing to tell you what has been going on . |
| 9 | This may be the case , but you will spend much of the two or three minutes moving at sub-maximum speed , so the further you can ride on the back of aerobic respiration , the more lies in reserve for explosive onslaughts . |
| 10 | Of course , if alcohol is banned for safety reasons , dismissal may be the only option , when the circumstances have been fully investigated . |
| 11 | It looks as though this may be the price for privatising the water companies that everyone feared . ’ |
| 12 | American professionalism may be the ideal , but differences between the British and American academic systems are noticeable . |
| 13 | Of the many loyal services that Eliot did for his old comrade-inarms , this may be the most notable . |
| 14 | The expectations of the two parties may be very different , as may be the amount of time and effort they each put into the deal . |
| 15 | Richard Darman , the numbers whizz who directs the White House Budget Office , may be the all-time grand master . |
| 16 | Following horses with a run under their belt may be the best advice for armchair punters retreating from an unprofitable Flat campaign . |
| 17 | The removal of the Barre regime may be the end of a tyranny ; it could also be the begining of a tribal war the horrors of which we have so far only glimpsed . |
| 18 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 19 | ‘ TOMORROW the world ’ may be the case for Sheikh Mohammed this weekend when his horses seek global domination in big races in the United States , France and Italy , writes John Karter . |
| 20 | The Romans may be the chief enemies in the books , but they are not the only ones who would like to suppress Asterix . |
| 21 | However vague may be the concept of ‘ medical care adequate for health ’ , the right clearly can not be realised if there are no doctors . |
| 22 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 23 | The reason may be the long continued drought . |
| 24 | which becomes an anti-Lord 's Prayer , addressed to an unnamed hearer who may be the god of a universe of barrenness and death . |
| 25 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 26 | It may be the case , as Honderich states , that the Conservative notion of ‘ intellectual imperfection ’ — the idea that people 's rational faculties are necessarily inadequate to grasp the complexities of social development , and that there are dangers in using abstract reasoning as a guide for social and political behaviour — does not mean , as some Conservatives have claimed , that Conservatism is atheoretical . |
| 27 | In this respect Nigeria may be the key reference point , because its enormous population of more than 100 million will continue to force it into constitutional experiments , because its press has seldom been effectively muzzled , and because its leaders have never acquired the absolute power of many neighbouring heads of state . |
| 28 | It may be the only way in which I get what I want in my life . |
| 29 | Disadvantages may be the restricted size of the wheels ( 14ins are standard , 16ins for competition ) and the short wheelbase ( 2340mm ) . |
| 30 | A Weighty Problem And why composites may be the solution 60 |