Example sentences of "[noun] may in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1981 ) ) and to note the possibility ( to be taken up shortly ) that the mechanisms responsible for the DOE may in fact be responsible for the effects that have been observed in orthodox studies of acquired distinctiveness . |
| 2 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 3 | So incomes in other countries rise ( also by a multiplier effect ) and some of this rise may in turn be spent on United Kingdom exports . |
| 4 | Of morphological interest is their evidence that the nervous system is not very much more conservative in its evolution than are the muscular and exoskeletal systems : muscles which seem to form an integral part of one segment may in part be innervated from the ganglia of other segments . |
| 5 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 6 | However , the point is not clear-cut , since occupancy may in fact be shared by the owner and the person managing the premises on behalf of the owner ( see Wheat v. E. Lacon & Co . |
| 7 | Each of the sub-units may in turn be decomposable into sub-sub-units and so on , until non-decomposable words or morphemes are encountered . |
| 8 | What is … surprising and disquieting is the fact that those who might be expected ex officio have a profound and permanent appreciation of literature may in reality have nothing of the sort . |
| 9 | The third party response may in fact be what distinguishes consensual and coercive relationships between States . |
| 10 | So its teaching may in theory be ranged along a spectrum from the ‘ dogmatic ’ to the ‘ pastoral ’ . |
| 11 | This suggests that such states may in fact occur in other situations such as the ones they suggest ( e.g. taking a walk or engaging in a routine activity ) . |
| 12 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 13 | Firstly , the marks one sees in the ground at any particular level may in fact result from many successive building phases , since the holes will commonly have been dug through earlier material and to varying depths . |
| 14 | The first suggests that by ‘ helping ’ clients the adviser may in fact be ‘ disabling ’ them and encouraging dependency . |
| 15 | This research challenges the assumption of net creation of new jobs with the hypothesis that local authority aid may in fact serve to displace existing jobs , even leading to a net decrease in employment opportunities . |
| 16 | As will be discussed in the following chapter there is evidence that in some circumstances arousal may in fact impair or systematically bias memory . |
| 17 | But , ironically , there is evidence that these ‘ efficient ’ methods may in fact turn out to be less reliable than their less efficient counterparts . |
| 18 | Consequently , in areas with high ammonia emissions , acidification of soils and lakes may in part be attributed to deposition of ammonia and ammonium ions . |
| 19 | In practice , however , these rights may be restricted by the Planning Acts , and by easements or restrictive covenants , although the freeholder may in turn benefit from easements or restrictive covenants imposed on adjoining land . |
| 20 | The priority system which has raided and impoverished the civilian economy for military benefit may in retrospect turn out to have been the scourge of military and civil progress alike . |
| 21 | The new law may in fact increase the already serious risk of torture facing political detainees . |
| 22 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 23 | The eventual cause of the serious symptoms of persistent infections may in fact be the immune system , confused by the unusual situation and attacking its own healthy tissues in an auto-immune response . |
| 24 | More than 70 British beaches have been omitted from the latest edition of the Marine Conservation Society 's authoritative Good Beach Guide after new research suggests that waters previously considered safe may in fact be hazardous to health The research , carried out by the Departments of Health and Environment , reveals that previous UK standards were too lax . |
| 25 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 26 | Indeed in terms of marginal rates of taxation , i.e. the proportion of any additional earnings that are taxed , those on below-average incomes may in fact suffer a rate higher than those on incomes in excess of £17,200 . |
| 27 | This temperature difference may in fact have significance in that the WLF equation has an infinity for a temperature about 50° below Tg and there is some evidence that the extrapolation of plots of equilibrium data below Tg gives intercepts at about 50° below Tg . |
| 28 | The burgeoning elderly population may in future be left without levels of support currently provided by relatives , a new report suggests . |
| 29 | Such official intervention may in theory reduce the degree of exchange rate volatility , and so partially reduce the uncertainty in world trade that might result from a free float . |
| 30 | In short , what we understand as the persistence of poverty may in fact be more complex , a function of new social relations tied to new forms of economic development . |