Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the work is bespoke design and making where a client has definite requirements ; the brief may be very specific or it may be quite open . |
| 2 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
| 3 | It may be pleasant or it may be unpleasant . |
| 4 | This is of less importance but may confirm what was already clear or it may help to differentiate between two or more remedies which are equally close . |
| 5 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 6 | And thirdly , conflict may be spontaneous or it may be organised . |
| 7 | The Government has made it clear that it may not use its power of veto , which protects Jaguar from takeover until the end of next year by limiting individual investors to a 15 per cent holding . |
| 8 | Their distress and sadness about the predicament of their partner will be no different although it may be concealed from others by awkwardness about their sexual preference . |
| 9 | Justice is done in public so it may be discussed and criticised in public . " |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee . |
| 11 | Notes retails at around £400 a user ( with discounts on multiple purchases ) , and is getting so popular that it may well emerge as the de facto standard for disseminating information . |
| 12 | In fact , we believe the concept is so popular that it may soon become a national , or even international event ’ . |
| 13 | I am now very much afraid that it may not matter what he said on 10 March . |
| 14 | Even the best laid plans sometimes go wrong and it may occasionally be necessary for you to overdraw your account . |
| 15 | That price is too high and it may be destroying what is left of the game . |
| 16 | The danger here is that , although things may be pleasant for the workers , the incentive to work very hard is not so direct and it may not be possible to maintain a competitive position in comparison with the same industry in a developing country . |
| 17 | Often the outfall will be off-site and it may be necessary to provide a storm water sewer of over a mile to achieve an outfall acceptable to the water authority . |
| 18 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 19 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 20 | This particular idea , unpromising though it may seem when reduced to words , is put by Britten to astonishingly fruitful use in the course of the opera . |
| 21 | The object of the attentions of Tory apparatchiks — and ministers — is the new policy on employment law , moderate and sensible as it may seem . |
| 22 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
| 23 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 24 | Primitive as it may have been , the scolds ' cage had its desired effect . |
| 25 | Perhaps what Wordsworth is trying to say is not as unorthodox as it may sound . |
| 26 | Now the ration per airman , meagre as it may have been , was four times for an officer — ie 4lb every other day , The coal compounds were side by side , and whilst the officers ' compound was generally well filled . |
| 27 | This is not as mystical as it may sound , for it means that Christ has priority over our lives , our careers , our relationships , and over the meaning of our identities . |
| 28 | It was not as altruistic as it may have looked . |
| 29 | Thymectomy has previously been reported to be of benefit in ulcerative colitis , but it is possible that it may also have a beneficial effect in Crohn 's disease . |
| 30 | In fact , that situation is even more confusing than it may seem from this account because a third cultural trauma , this time representing the change from cultivation ( of plants ) to herding and pastoralism also occurred and brought with it a great intensification , not of weaning as happened with cultivation , nor of the phallic mutilations which accompanied hunting , but of toilet-training . |