Example sentences of "[noun] may [adv] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a politician , Alan Keen may not yet be in the Premier League but he thinks the Boro will be next season . |
| 2 | These conditions may not only be for the vendor 's own benefit , but for his ’ successors in title ’ . |
| 3 | This tension between political practice and the established constitutional theory suggests that the constitution may once again be in crisis and liable to change , but we will not be dealing with those questions until Chapter 4 . |
| 4 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 5 | The refusal to talk , believed to have been decided in a meeting of the Politburo , contributed to renewed speculation here that Mr Honecker may no longer be in full control . |
| 6 | It has n't passed on a penny to the landlord … and his tenancy agreement may not now be worth the paper it 's written on |
| 7 | The origins of deviant groups will clearly have a distinct socio-historical context , and analysis of such a context may very well be of considerable explanatory value . |
| 8 | Enzo Ferrari may no longer be with us but the name and legend will live on . |