Example sentences of "may be [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may be partly a superior performance on the generic benefits ( quicker , more thorough , cheaper , safer … ) and partly based in brand values such as status , security , fashionability , form , ostentation , reassurance . |
| 2 | Such social aggregations may be either a feeding adaptation or a means of avoiding predation . |
| 3 | The Proof may be either a simple Proof on the facts or a Proof before Answer which is a Proof on the facts with questions of relevancy reserved until after the evidence has been heard . |
| 4 | a literal may be either an atomic formula or a negated atomic formula * p ( t , t , … t ) . |
| 5 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 6 | The depletion of the ozone layer may be primarily a natural phenomena related to solar activity , according to researchers from NASA and the University of Virginia . |
| 7 | My Lords I , I , I , I , it may be just a total inadequacy of my dwindling intellectual powers that I find that extremely difficult to follow ! |
| 8 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 9 | The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ( MASSMoCA ) may be just a red-brick castle in the western New England sky , but locals hope the grand initiative will one day bring prosperity to this economically depressed mill town . |
| 10 | It may be just a strange coincidence , as Vonnegut often suggests , that the social characteristics of those persons more likely to commit these types of avoidable killings differ considerably to those possessed by individuals more likely to commit killings legally construed in principle as murder . |
| 11 | And , there may be just a teeny bit more in the way of sunshine for the weekend . |
| 12 | Rejection at selection time after this may be both a personal disappointment to them and frustrating for bureau staff who have spent time to no end . |
| 13 | This may be rather a purist definition , but it does direct attention to the role of key settlements within the wider settlement system . |
| 14 | However , it may happen that particular variables selected for analysis turn out to be especially markers of one of these functions rather than another : one variable may be chiefly a close-tie network marker and another a marker of gender-differentiation . |
| 15 | The disadvantages of in vivo injections are that precisely localized injections are impossible and that there may be only a restricted number of cell types which can integrate into the early post-implantation embryo following injection into the visceral yolk sac or amniotic cavity . |
| 16 | This overburden may be only a shallow layer of topsoil or a deep layer of modern building rubble , as is the case on some urban sites , and it may be removed by digging with hand tools or by using a mechanical excavator , depending on the site . |
| 17 | Herbicides may be only a short-term threat , however . |
| 18 | The size of the latent inhibition effect should decline as the interval is increased and the short-term effect is lost ; and when the exposure conditions are poor for association formation ( e.g. when there is just a single , brief exposure ) there may be only a short-term effect and no latent inhibition at all at the longer interval . |
| 19 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 20 | Although the ericaceous shrubs are a consistent part of the community , they are usually much reduced in stature by exposure and grazing , and may be only a few centimetres high . |
| 21 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 22 | In many cases , where the inert environment is provided by a frozen gas ( Ar or N 2 are often used ) , the temperature needed may be only a few degrees above absolute zero . |
| 23 | Stockton says ‘ what we witness today [ in M87 ] may be only a feeble remnant of a blaze kindled 10 6 years ago . ’ |
| 24 | Erm how did that h that may be quite a sophisticated thing to t t t to do in a way is n't it ? |
| 25 | On the other hand , notes can be extremely useful for radio , particularly for long phone-ins where there may be quite a few questions which require detailed instructions in the answer . |
| 26 | He may be quite an able chap . |