Example sentences of "[noun] it may be " in BNC.

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1 Where a child has moved around a great deal it may be difficult to determine where he ordinarily resides .
2 When the practice begins or comes to light in the context of an existing marriage or other partnership it may be distressing for the partner .
3 When family members , or other people close to the sufferer attempt to give feedback it may be resented and resisted by the reactivated denial system and lead to the opposite of the desired effect .
4 In Texas it may be described as the past constantly almost catching up with the future , leaving no stable present time .
5 Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent
6 With this in mind it may be better quality papers , such as Cockingford 150 gsm paper .
7 If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking .
8 It is greatly to be hoped that some version of the censorship hypothesis holds because close to naked singularities it may be possible to travel into the past .
9 In a small department it may be possible to have all the project leaders present at a meeting to make the decisions .
10 In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes :
11 From some authors it may be assumed that pluralism represents an especially naive set of propositions about how political power is perfectly , or nearly perfectly , distributed within Western liberal democracies .
12 In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ?
13 On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage .
14 In future it may be possible to bring out a first novel in paperback , and then once an author is established we could bring out his or her second and third novels in hardback .
15 In the future it may be possible to convert water to hydrogen on a large scale by electrolysis , for example .
16 When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them .
17 On larger sales or ones with special confidentiality considerations it may be appropriate to prepare additional document for distribution such as a second phase transaction pack .
18 In practice it may be possible to make an enlightened guess as to the origin and type of infection involved , but in very few cases can the physician be one hundred per cent sure of his diagnosis .
19 Likewise in community settings and specialist fields of practice it may be possible , through time management and planning , to create similar opportunities .
20 When applied in practice it may be short or long , structured or open-ended , teacher-directed or pupil-operated , subject-specific or interdisciplinary , individualized or class-based .
21 For some computers it may be possible to omit capacitor C3 , resistor R2 and diode D1 , taking the line direct to IC1b .
22 As a general rule it may be said that the more serious the breach , the clearer the words needed to exclude liability for it , and that where the court is faced with a choice of two or more interpretations of a clause , it will favour the one which produces the most reasonable result .
23 In order to preserve certain client relationships it may be necessary for a partner ( not responsible for the particular specialisation required ) to maintain personal control whilst delegating the execution of the task to the group or department concerned .
24 Since the mantle part of the descending lithosphere is cold relative to the asthenosphere it may be sufficiently dense to pull the lower part of the crust down if the upper part is detached .
25 I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something
26 Whilst present cost considerations may exclude the use of a dedicated microprocessor it may be possible to direct any spare processing capability towards stepping motor control .
27 If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two .
28 Growing your own vegetables is much the cheapest way of avoiding pesticides in the long run , but in the short term it may be possible to get unsprayed produce from someone with a large garden or allotment .
29 If they win on Saturday it may be the freedom of the town .
30 If they win on Saturday it may be the freedom of the town .
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