Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] 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 | Even the best laid plans sometimes go wrong and it may occasionally be necessary for you to overdraw your account . |
| 8 | That price is too high and it may be destroying what is left of the game . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 12 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 13 | As a consequence , the boundaries will be more distinct and it may be possible to identify more sub-areas . |
| 14 | " It may be dangerous and it may not , but I 'm taking no chances with it . |
| 15 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 16 | Where the rivers have flowed transverse to the structure rias formed in them will have a much more irregular plan : the main arm of the ria may not be straight and it may possess branches developed along weaker beds followed by the courses of previous subsequent streams . |
| 17 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |
| 18 | These arguments are not self-evident and it may be worth spelling them out . |
| 19 | As discussed on pages 7 — 8 , the legal basis for these proposals remains controversial and it may be aggravated by the outcome of the Maastricht Summit in December 1991 . |
| 20 | Physical abuse is not known to be extensive and it may be felt that it has been excessively discussed in the context of ‘ dependence and independence ’ . |
| 21 | Growth may be inevitable or it may be fun . |
| 22 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 23 | The capacitance may be just stray or it may be associated with further circuitry or equipment connected to the potential divider . |
| 24 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 25 | If we say , you see , that the function of the dream is to safeguard sleep , and to fulfil wishes , then it 's clear that in the real world not all wishes are fulfillable and it may well be that , that the latent thoughts , in some cases , is so alarming and so disturbing , that they can not be sufficiently disguised and will lead to a state of waking , and that waking proves of course that the dream has failed in its function of safeguarding sleep . |
| 26 | However , you may not always be so lucky and it may be necessary to return to the site the next day . |
| 27 | Tuna were once caught in large numbers in spring and autumn in the Mediterranean and it may be that the Minoans organized large-scale tuna fishing in a similar way . |
| 28 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 29 | We would hope that that has been defined er by somebody of the hierarchy but , if we 're moving onto new work areas , it might not The sequence maybe self-evident but it may not be and it would be nice to have it written down . |
| 30 | For example , an interest group may be rich but it may be ill-organised , just as a poor group may enjoy power because it is active and well-organised . |