Example sentences of "[adj] may be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be Morrissey ridiculing the entire music business , cheapening it even , but , in doing so , he was merely ridiculing himself . |
| 2 | Further investigation suggests that while that may be part of the story it is almost certainly not all of it . |
| 3 | That may be part of her gutteral language : it is certainly not part of mine . |
| 4 | That may be part of some bigger game going on about busting unions in Germany , we 're not green about that , but again the same question arises in the interrogation . |
| 5 | If more red than green members of a species of moth living on green foliage are being killed by predators , that may be selection ; but only if the predators are not colour-blind ; if they are it is random sampling error . |
| 6 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 7 | They even say there is protein , but that may be propaganda . ’ |
| 8 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 9 | Most of these processes will be problem processes , but some may be operating system processes , such as one reading job descriptions from a card reader into a job queue on disc . |
| 10 | Some may be notes and coin but the vast bulk will come from people writing cheques drawn on bank accounts . |
| 11 | Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century . |
| 12 | A large retail organisation owns m sites , some of which may be warehouses and some may be shops . |
| 13 | This may be true , or to put it another way , this may be trew . |
| 14 | In the case of the fry remaining with the parents this may be particles of the adult 's food . |
| 15 | This may be evidence for a previously unrecognized phase of humid climate in Kenya . |
| 16 | This may be evidence of some long past wine chilling exercise . |
| 17 | This may be invention , for the propaganda value of possessing a saint courted thus by a king renowned for his piety is obvious ; but if not , and taken together with the Encomiast 's statement that Cnut visited St Omer while on pilgrimage to Rome , a journey in which he embarked from somewhere near Canterbury ( maybe Sandwich ) and sailed to Flanders seems a distinct possibility . |
| 18 | Indeed , if things work out , this may be Pete 's future . |
| 19 | This may be coincidence , or it may be that the star system in French intellectual culture requires its major performers to be visibly on stage . |
| 20 | This may be home to Mercedes , Bosch , Kodak and Porsche to name but four , but it also offers endless greenery from the banks of the winding Neckar to the baroque palace in the historic heart of the city . |
| 21 | This may be part of the explanation in Britain , where there has been some improvement in the potential of the economy . |
| 22 | This may be part of the leader 's secret history with God . |
| 23 | And yet this may be part of the price which has to be paid if a larger population is to survive . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |
| 25 | This may be information such as the number of strokes used , the order in which the strokes are written , the direction of the writing , and even the speed of the writing for each stroke . |
| 26 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 27 | Added to this may be demands incurred through new course developments such as Project 2000 . |
| 28 | ‘ This may be news of Sam . |
| 29 | ‘ Beloved , ’ I say , ‘ this may be news to you . |
| 30 | For example , one cost centre may be highly mechanized whilst another may be labour intensive . |