Example sentences of "may [verb] [prep] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when some security staff are located outside the hotel , they may need to be in constant communication with their colleagues inside the building , in order to verify that people arriving are bona fide guests , for example . |
| 2 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 3 | The analysis may appear to be unlike those which , to speak quickly and only of one central matter , describe something like a causal circumstance and an effect as two items which fall under a law , and then proceed to attempt to give an account of what a law is a true proposition of a certain character . |
| 4 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |
| 5 | Other conundra m–y appear rather less cosmically' relevant ; they may seem to be of little importance yet , like Mercury 's orbit , may prove in the long term to be extremely important . |
| 6 | For example , a secretary may seem to be of higher occupational status than a builder 's labourer ( the blue collar/white collar distinction ) . |
| 7 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |
| 8 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |