Example sentences of "may be [adv] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall differences , which have been found in other studies , may be partly due to black people tending to live in areas of social deprivation . |
| 2 | It is also a question of equity , both within the current generation — poor inner-city children may be most vulnerable to arrested development caused by inhaling lead-polluted air — and across generations . |
| 3 | Recent experimental work has suggested that lipoproteins ( VLDL ) obtained from diabetic animals ( streptozotocin diabetic rats ) may be more toxic to cultured porcine endothelial cells than lipoproteins obtained from control animals . |
| 4 | Both Conté and Faber-Castell offer these crayons in a pencil format , which may be more applicable to refined , detailed drawing work . |
| 5 | The goal here is to illustrate the general contention set out in this book that in order to use regions in geography ( as against practising regional geography ) it is necessary to appreciate what the salient features of a region ( or place ) are — some of which may be more important to particular research tasks than others . |
| 6 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 7 | There are , however , suggestions that reaction time may be more sensitive to visual field differences than accuracy scores ( White , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | Further complications are created by the fact that secret explicit collusion may be observationally equivalent to tacit collusion given surveillance methods constrained by considerations of ‘ liberty and justice ’ . |
| 9 | These concepts are endemic to geography , but they may be quite foreign to other workers . |