Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strain of caring physically for someone may be lifted , but the emotional responsibility is not . |
| 2 | Gandhi actually recognizes the problem of relativity and acknowledges that what may be truth for one may be untruth for another . |
| 3 | What is a development for one may be seen as a decline , a retrograde step , or sheer decadence by the other . |
| 4 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 5 | Every composer has his own ideals , and what sounds well to one may be anathema to another . |