Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] may [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 2 | They may be the best equipped to identify the tariff for retribution and deterrence in a particular case but they may also be wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ That is strict procedure but it may well be that we need to have another look . |
| 4 | If these latter are part of the design team then already we have a matrix organisation but they may well be provided on a service basis from some other part of the parent organisation . |
| 5 | The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company . |
| 6 | If p(x) then x is in the cluster but there may also be objects x , in the cluster , for which p is false . |
| 7 | Confrontation of issues and attitudes will be polite and respectful in a professional manner but it may nonetheless be a very painful process that would not in customary terms be considered friendly , although in truth it is a most fundamental act of friendship from one human being to another . |
| 8 | Sunderland may be playing at Wembley next month but they may also be relegated from the Second Division despite having games in hand . |
| 9 | We might think that any differences reflected poorer performance but it may just be that they merely reflect the different impact of specific price changes on drugs compared with books . |
| 10 | The pluralist description of the social order with its myriad political institutions , groups , and actors all competing , albeit unequally , for power treats the media as a set of institutions which may act independently in society but which may also be deployed by powerful groups . |
| 11 | The boundary between the mantle and crust represents a significant change in rock density but there may also be differences in chemical composition . |
| 12 | Of course , you can hand the whole thing over to a direct mail house but there may still be additional and expensive packaging to design and pay for . |
| 13 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 14 | The second is that the rules may be those that apply to formal , written language but they may then be prescribed for all circumstances . |