Example sentences of "[adj] they may be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 2 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 3 | In the larger clinics the two may run concurrently , in the smaller they may be held at different times during the week . |
| 4 | These matters , however disagreeable they may be to raise in an individual context , are discussed in the pubs in my constituency , as they are discussed and debated at the Eton College debating society or the Liverpool polytechnic . |
| 5 | When there is information to give about a diagnosis of terminal disease , for example , it is always the statutorily determined next of kin who are given the information , regardless of how suitable they may be to cope with such information emotionally , and regardless of how involved in the actual care of Mr Patient they are . |
| 6 | The planned towns are the easiest kind of urban landscape to understand , and perhaps for that reason the least interesting to the curious traveller — however attractive they may be to look at . |