Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] may be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between . |
| 2 | An attack may be totally sudden or there may be prior warning . |
| 3 | Or there may be lateral substitution , with people moving sideways into kinds of work which are different from , though often related to , their initial training . |
| 4 | For example , auditors may require a revaluation for the balance sheet to be stated to show a true and fair view ; or there may be considerable delay before the market improves . |
| 5 | Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity . |
| 6 | It may appear as padding to a fixed size due to software limitations or it may be wasted space at the end of tracks and overflow areas because the record that should have gone there was too large . |
| 7 | The bus company says an investigation is under way and there may be disciplinary action . |
| 8 | Occasionally there are situations where two techniques can be used , and there may be good reason to apply both so that they provide supporting evidence for each other ( for example , see p. 134 for the use of TL and uranium series dating at Pontnewydd Cave ) . |
| 9 | A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations . |
| 10 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 11 | Teething with green , foul diarrhoea smelling of rotten eggs and there may be colicky pain and bloating . |
| 12 | These cause diarrhoea with progressive emaciation and there may be high mortality in heavily infected flocks . |
| 13 | Secondary infection with other bacteria sometimes occurs and there may be widespread tissue destruction leading to loss of the penis in some cases . |
| 14 | Run-off is increased , especially on slopes , and there may be marked compaction or other deterioration of the soil structure . |
| 15 | And it may be hot air … but it 's still the coolest way to travel . |
| 16 | Whatever the technique ( and it may be total silence ) , other members of the group have registered the deviation and the implied message is ‘ OK , we note the deviation . |
| 17 | ‘ In 10 years , it wo n't be Crystal Palace but it may be Southern League , Division Seven . ’ |