Example sentences of "[pron] may [adv] be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business has changed beyond all recognition since Cyril started out in bakery aged 13 … and he 's concerned that independent bakers like himself may soon be a thing of the past . |
| 2 | A cutaway marks the relevant pin on the socket and their may also be a figure 1 painted on the motherboard . |
| 3 | GDP fell by 9 per cent in 1991 and was expected to fall by a further 14 per cent in 1992 , which may well be an underestimate . |
| 4 | If it is not renewed , which may well be the case , the products which it now covers will then fall under the general rules of the EEC Treaty . |
| 5 | Mustill LJ said in Parmenter that , although the two offences are seen as different by defendants and lawyers , the mens rea is the same : If the Cunningham subjective test combined with the low level of intent prescribed by Mowatt is applied to s.47 in the same way as s.20 , the moral overtones of the two offences become indistinguishable , and the differences between the two depend upon variations between the levels of physical injury which may often be the result of chance . |
| 6 | The invention can be dated with fair assurance , since some of the earliest-looking examples , by a painter who may well be the inventor , show stylisations extremely close to those found on the friezes of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi , carved little before 525 . |
| 7 | All personal effects should be handed to the appropriate authority , which may be a local authority official or the deceased 's solicitor or executor , who may also be a relative . |
| 8 | Most rural communities support a local midwife who may also be a curandera or healer . |
| 9 | You 're supposed to be an actor , but I suspect you may just be an exhibitionist . ’ |
| 10 | You may still be a child but you are the only person in this dreadful place who understands the meaning of care . |
| 11 | These negotiations , of course , cost a supplier a considerable amount of cash for which there may ultimately be no pay-back . |
| 12 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |
| 13 | Bearing all this in mind , what are we to make of Searle 's ( 1984 ) claim that the brain does not identify faces via information processing of the kind described in cognitive models and that , as far as the cognitive sciences are concerned , there may simply be no story to tell ? |
| 14 | There may yet be an outbreak of panic . |
| 15 | True , there may yet be the possibility of repentance as the time for using the explosives draws near , but the very step of taking explosives into one 's Possession with this intent is culpable . |
| 16 | There may even be a danger that CAD ( Computer Aided Design ) for example may largely replace ‘ practice ’ . |
| 17 | In chapter 9.27 there may even be an allusion to an agreement between Antiochus and the Hellenizers ( " and he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week " ) . |
| 18 | ‘ And there may even be an ale house to brighten our way , ’ Ratagan added . |
| 19 | If there is a relationship between eyedness and handedness then there may also be a relationship between eyedness and brainedness . |
| 20 | There may also be a relationship between the default rate and inflation . |
| 21 | There may also be a contract of sale with respect to a future contingency so that s5(2) of SGA 1979 states : ( 2 ) There may be a contract for the sale of goods the acquisition of which by the seller depends on a contingency which may or may not happen . |
| 22 | There may also be a tendency , as the Public Accounts Committee ( 1986–7c , para. 23 ) has warned , for ‘ top management systems … to be regarded as a substitute for FMI , rather than an integral part of it ’ . |
| 23 | There may also be a possibility of a demand for retirement or starter homes . |
| 24 | There may also be a handling fee . |
| 25 | There may also be a degree of enlargement of the lymph nodes in the groin . |
| 26 | There may also be a degree of self-deception , or at least lack of clarity , on the crucial issue of the distinction between means and ends : is growth seen as a means to long-term profitability , or are profits required as a pre-condition of growth ? |
| 27 | Many local authorities , however , do not pay bureaux managers at this rate and although the shortfall will always be attributed to budgetary constraints , there may also be a lack of awareness of what the position entails . |
| 28 | Am I alone in this room , I wonder , in hoping that at the next accession there may also be a coronation in Scotland , that the regalia of Scotland be bestowed on the Sovereign by the ministers of the Church of Scotland , according to the usage of the Scottish coronation service , long ratified by Scottish law ? |
| 29 | There may also be a safety committee set up to consider such matters . |
| 30 | There may also be a charge to inheritance tax with regard to that property which was a potentially exempt transfer ; it never in fact became exempt in the end because he ( Mr X ) did not survive seven years . |