Example sentences of "[det] [noun] may be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking out of that isolation may be one of the greatest challenges now facing our imagination . |
| 2 | But this modification may be more of a public relations coup than a genuine therapeutic improvement . |
| 3 | This work may be representative of much LEA adult education activity with unemployed people , but unfortunately the paucity of action-research evidence means that this must remain a hypothesis . |
| 4 | Even in a large population , very few individuals may be free of any deleterious mutations ; if this fittest class fails to leave descendents , it can never be recovered , and the mean fitness of the population will decline irreversibly , in a process known as ‘ Muller 's ratchet ’ . |
| 5 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 6 | Increase in enamel thickness , but the enamel is even thicker than in afropithecins , as measured for the Pasalar sample , with relative enamel thickness of 19.71 ( ref. 47 ) , although it has yet to be measured for any of the African Kenyapithecus ; this character may be diagnostic of node 1A if it can be shown to be ancestral for both pongines and hominines ; |
| 7 | This species may be one of the last of this kind of echinoderm , which did not survive beyond the Permian . |
| 8 | An applicant in another state may be unaware of the nature and significance of the divisions within the country of destination , so it is expressly provided that he always has the right to address a request directly to the Central Authority itself . |
| 9 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 10 | These are : that Braverman ignores worker resistance ; that management may be ignorant of the most effective ways of meeting worker recalcitrance ; that there are more ways of killing a cat than skinning it ( in other words , that there are mechanisms other than fragmentation and de-skilling which management can use to control recalcitrant labour ) ; that technological and market opportunities vary across firms and that these influence the outcome of the struggle between capital and labour over the form of work organisation which is adopted ; and that the tight control of labour and the need to maximise output from individual workers may not be management 's most dominant concern in every case . |
| 11 | Such actions may be indicative of a climate of fear , or of caution , or of simply teaching to the test . |
| 12 | Such differences may be indicative of more elaborate language and progress in the direction predicted by normal developmental trends , or the child 's language may be deteriorating . |
| 13 | But on a wider scale , such events may be indicative of something much more fundamental . |
| 14 | Moreover , the enrichment of neither of these alternatives may be representative of that of the true precursor , so that erroneous rates of protein synthesis may result . |
| 15 | These agents may be unaware of the need for accurate and timely VAT returns . |