Example sentences of "[conj] it may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ensures continuity with more than one worker , where it may be difficult to find one person to live in permanently . |
| 2 | It is also appropriate to introduce the new coordinates r and θ instead of t and z given by ( 13.24 ) where it may be noticed that , using the previous notation , . |
| 3 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 4 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 5 | In contrast there may be certain parts of the world — Siberia has been suggested — where it may be important , because of the presence of energy or raw materials or for other strategic reasons , to have integrated factories where the emphasis is on minimising the number of people employed at that location ( Hatvany et al. n.d . ) . |
| 6 | The new decision does not affect the artist 's ownership of the work of art itself , but it does effectively strip him or her of control over how , when and where it may be reproduced . |
| 7 | After leaving Brooklyn , the show travels to the Dixon Gallery and Gardens , Memphis , where it may be seen 14 February-25 April , 1993 . |
| 8 | Some countries , including England but not Scotland , will use compulsory powers , but this is not the case in many countries , including France , the Netherlands , Portugal , Scotland and the United States , where it may be unconstitutional to force a person to give body samples . |
| 9 | The discussion of culture in Raymond Williams ' ( 1983 ) Towards 2000 has been very important in my consideration of where Tyneside is going and where it may be made to go . |
| 10 | Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves . |
| 11 | This case is illustrated in Fig. 7–2 , where it may be checked that the excess of revenue over variable costs ( the shaded area ) is equal to the fixed cost C , and that a rise in C would shift the equilibrium horizontally . |
| 12 | Pairs of square brackets indicate that the enclosed formula is to be taken as an E , with round brackets for properties ; where it may be necessary to indicate that a sequence of E P is a clause within some larger construction rather than a simple entity-identifying expression , we shall use scroll brackets as our notational device . |
| 13 | This manual explains how to use LIFESPAN RDBI , the Relational Database Interface product , which allows data held by LIFESPAN to be transferred to a relational database , where it may be queried by users . |
| 14 | Waste can also be a product , for example , where it is sold as a by-product or if it is disposed in a supply situation , rather than a mere discharge , where it may be covered under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 . |
| 15 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 16 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 19 | It might be as straightforward as writing down or calling out an answer , pressing a button , etc. or it may be a task that requires manipulative skills such as wiring an electrical component or threading a needle . |
| 20 | More specifically , it may be the acoustics or the positioning of the seats or the stage , or it may be the ‘ coldness ’ of cement walls or the seediness of crumbling old ones . |
| 21 | And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’ |
| 22 | as at present there are three 2.5 litre turbo diesel engines in use — the VM in the Range Rover , the 200 TDi in the Discovery and the 2.5 in the Defender — or it may be that the Land Rover unit is not as reliable as other Land Rovers have been and Land Rover Ltd have realised this . ? |
| 23 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 24 | Which pathway is chosen may be historical accident , or it may be a matter of more deliberate planning by chemists . |
| 25 | In the best case you may inherit excellent facilities needing only minor alterations ; in the worst there may be no buildings at all or it may be wisest to level the lot and start again . |
| 26 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 27 | He is stable and , all being well , will remain so for some considerable period of time.5 The motive for turning off the ventilator in this situation may be evil , or it may be good , as , for example , in the case of involuntary euthanasia intended to bring about an end to misery and suffering . |
| 28 | Technology itself may be up-to-date , chip-bound , computer-orientated ; or it may be simple , and concerned with skills of a less modern kind ( though they may be just as difficult to acquire ) . |
| 29 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 30 | Moreover , older workers lose the right to be protected from unfair dismissal if they are over the ‘ upper age limit ’ ( this may be 65 or it may be whatever is the ‘ normal retiring age ’ for the job the individual holds ) . |