Example sentences of "they may [adv] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , because while they apply primarily to those who work on their own account , they may equally be used by employees who work for companies which do not have a pension scheme or which have a scheme for which they , as individuals , are not eligible . |
| 2 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 3 | They may soon be joined by elected sympathisers . |
| 4 | What they may unconsciously be looking for is containment . |
| 5 | They may even be found in the Link trainer or , perhaps , in the Navigation Section ! |
| 6 | They may even be held by the same people . |
| 7 | Feelings that have been firmly repressed , near the surface yet still not sufficiently available to be formed into words , can express themselves through bodily symptoms ; if these feelings relate to permeability , they may well be expressed on the skin - rashes , blotches , spots and boils — and become boundary symptoms . |
| 8 | For other social groups , however , they may well be seen as back regions to be avoided . |
| 9 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 10 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |
| 11 | They may well be faced with owners who demand that the operation be done , with the only alternative that their pet cat be destroyed . |
| 12 | Waterlilies can be allowed to die back naturally , but any leaves with soft , crumbling edges or spreading black blotches should be regarded with suspicion and removed , as they may well be infected by waterlily leaf spot . |
| 13 | If these latter are part of the design team then already we have a matrix organisation but they may well be provided on a service basis from some other part of the parent organisation . |
| 14 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 15 | They may be played by two people , or by more than two people ; they may also be played by one person who performs both task and maintenance behaviours . |
| 16 | They may also be duplicated by physical models , are not destroyed by bleaching and all the component wavelengths of the incident light are to be found in either the reflected , scattered or transmitted fractions . |
| 17 | It is common practice in the carpet trade to use the term " Anatolian " to describe items made in Turkey , although they may also be referred to as Turkish or Turkey rugs . |
| 18 | They may also be created by words which associate with each other . |
| 19 | They may also be shaped by personal reaction to the passage of events . |
| 20 | They may also be seen as payments to compensate for culture shock . |
| 21 | Because these constructs are highly correlated they may also be encircled as a way of indicating this clustering . |
| 22 | Sunderland may be playing at Wembley next month but they may also be relegated from the Second Division despite having games in hand . |
| 23 | They may also be interrupted by a period of unsettled weather — when the winds blow from anywhere at any strength ! |
| 24 | Selected or key settlements may be service centres ; they may also be associated with public investment in facilities such as schools and council housing , and designated for residential expansion or for industrial growth ( Woodruffe 1976 ) . |
| 25 | The ventral interradial areas are covered with large plates like those of the dorsal surface , they may also be armed with granule-like spinelets . |
| 26 | There is a sense that the lines mean more than their composers know , may indeed not be their personal compositions at all ; they may also be brooded upon , to be repeated with new understanding much later . |
| 27 | They may also be used in pressurized rural areas as a strategy for concentrating growth in order to relieve congestion in other villages , while in more remote regions they may be used to ‘ intercept ’ or reduce out-migration . |
| 28 | Like glass , they may also be considered to be intermediate between liquid and solid . |
| 29 | ( They may also be implied by public policy or statute . ) |
| 30 | They may also be decorated with dots , arcs , circles , triangles , stamped , notched or bear incised lines . |