Example sentences of "may be [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , but they may be elsewhere in the building , ’ he answered distractedly , tapping suspiciously on the nearest corner of the TARDIS . |
| 2 | " This Meeting having taken into Consideration the State of the Island as to Grain & provisions , until the next Crop comes on , are of opinion that with economy , there may be neither in the Island , what is sufficient for the Support of the Inhabitants , but if any Grain or putatoes are exported from the Island , that it may endanger a scarcity … " and they are " to use their utmost exertions for preventing any of the Grain of the Island being destroy 'd by Illegal Distillers … " |
| 3 | Many results , especially from field surveys , may be primarily in the form of statistical tables in which percentages largely tell their own stories . |
| 4 | The Bengali lady who enrolled in an English cookery class , so that she could provide English food for some of her son 's chums at school , is likely next to take a GCSE in English and help prepare herself for a job that may be just around the corner . |
| 5 | The darkest hour may be just before the dawn but it is no time to go to sleep on the job . |
| 6 | This slightly understates the true cost of credit union lending for their members , as credit unions can work only if their members save as well as borrow , and the interest paid to members on savings with the unions ( though at the moment tax-free ) may be rather below the interest they could get from other institutions . |
| 7 | Although the physical act of taking a drink or drug is technically self-induced , the spiritual disease that leads to this compulsion is a disease that has clearly identifiable characteristics and outcomes , that runs in families and may even be genetically inherited ( this does not mean that if your parents have addictive disease then you will necessarily also have addictive disease , but it does mean that there is a higher chance of your having it ) and therefore the existence of the disease may be totally beyond the control of the sufferer . |
| 8 | ‘ Provided always that every assignment or underlease or tenancy of any kind relating to the premises shall if required by the landlord contain a covenant by the assignee underlessee or tenant and the lessee or tenant as the case may be directly with the landlord to observe and perform the covenants and conditions in this lease contained and covenants directly with the landlord in the terms of sub-clauses ( A ) and ( B ) hereof and covenants that any sub-underleases whether mediate or immediate shall contain covenants with the landlord in the terms of such sub-clauses . |
| 9 | The House of Lords disagreed and it is now the law that it may be enough for the transaction to contain an element of bounty if it is of the kind conferred by the exercise of a special power of appointment . |
| 10 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 11 | They may know more than they realize , for it may be only on the occasion of a question that they see or realize applications and utilities of writings with which they are perfectly familiar . |
| 12 | Where there is a shortage of labour in a regional or occupational labour market and pay scales are not sufficiently flexible to enable employers to respond to it , it may be only via the displacement of permanent staff by agency workers that the occupational labour market is able to find its equilibrium . |
| 13 | Sometimes , as in this example , the contrast is obvious in the language itself ( play well v. lose ) ; on other occasions , the contrast may be only in the speaker 's mind , e.g. : |
| 14 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 15 | In such a situation an investment may be more in the nature of an insurance policy to protect existing business : a step to reduce uncertainty . |
| 16 | The two separate Minutes may not necessarily be related but it does suggest there may be more in the Cup 's name that has hitherto been appreciated . |
| 17 | ( The storage directories , where your configurable items are stored , may be anywhere on the host VAX ; they are not restricted to the same disk as the Process Directory ) . |
| 18 | Storage Directories may be anywhere on the VMS system on which LIFESPAN resides ; they do not need to be on the same device , or pseudo-device , as the Process Directory , nor do they need to be on the same device as each other . |
| 19 | We had a spinning wheel at Low Birk Hatt — it may be still around the place somewhere — and the whole family would spin the raw wool and then knit it into stockings , gloves , jumpers and skirts . |
| 20 | This may be so for the population of probationers generally but does not apply to the AEC sample . |
| 21 | Criticism of those who see concretion to be fundamental to religion may be quite beside the point . |
| 22 | Needless to say , such ‘ children ’ may be way beyond the age of infancy , and such ‘ mothers ’ no older than ourselves . |