Example sentences of "it may be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 2 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 3 | If the business fails to keep proper records it may be charged a financial penalty . |
| 4 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 5 | In port it may be considered a cosy double . |
| 6 | It may be decorating a flat for a housebound person , to taking care of the cat of an elderly hospitalised lady . |
| 7 | Its object is concerned with inflation , with preventing or restraining a general fall in the value of money , as seen in a general rise in prices — however difficult it may be to attach a precise concept to a ‘ general rise ’ in prices . |