Example sentences of "[ex0] may be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be a cult in the making — and one could imagine a film by Antonioni , whose script-writer , Mark Peploe , was intrigued by J. Behrens in his last days . |
| 2 | There may be a matter of principle here for some of those who wish their authors to be concealed : such authors should not sound like the characters they invent , any more than they should express opinions . |
| 3 | There may be a lover , a friend , asleep beside you , but who is wide-eyed as a marigold in the trackless dark ? |
| 4 | There may be a Crossroads Care Attendant scheme in your area , which can provide regular help to give relief to carers . |
| 5 | In an old garden , there may be a fruit tree , or a good bulwark of evergreen laurel or box that , tidied up , could add a dash of venerability to the new garden that will emerge around it . |
| 6 | In some cemeteries , particularly overseas where there may be a risk of earth movement , stone or bronze plaques on low pedestals are used instead of headstones . |
| 7 | But Lawrence dramatizes something else : if , within the construction of homosexuality as a fear or refusal of otherness , there may be a projection by the male heterosexual on to the homosexual of his fear of the woman as other , there may also be a disavowal of the heterosexual 's fear of the homosexual as the same — that is , a fear of those gender proximities and interconnections , including Lawrence 's opposed energy ‘ flows ’ , whose feared mutual implication compromises not only the ideology of sexual difference , but the cultural formations which it underwrites . |
| 8 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 9 | It is available by post , except in the summer months when there may be a seasonal shortage . |
| 10 | Because they are not paid for this service , there may be a socially less-than-optimal amount of bee-keeping . |
| 11 | There may be a few more Mitterrand loyalists , a few less Rocard supporters and non-Socialist centrists , and one more woman ( seven out of 46 ministers , including the new prime minister , Edith Cresson ) . |
| 12 | But there may be a baser reason : fear of Lord Hanson 's £7 billion war-chest . |
| 13 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 14 | There is a clear contrast here between cases of the use of serious force in self-defence , where there may be a need to act instantaneously on a hastily formed view of the situation , and sexual intercourse with another , where consent or non-consent is the essence of the crime and can be ascertained by asking a plain question of the victim . |
| 15 | In some cases there may be a need to introduce steps to allow for movement to a higher level . |
| 16 | ‘ There may be a way , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ While there may be a lack of clarity about a total railway system in the United Kingdom , local authorities are increasingly planning to use railways for purely pragmatic reasons . ’ |
| 18 | So there may be a sort of shame attached to being a Tory , up to the last minute , when a different instinct intervenes . |
| 19 | The recent development of cooperatives in Greece has been seriously hindered by a high degree of central control ; there may be a danger that similar problems will arise in Italy . |
| 20 | Since 1986 Norwegian research has also suggested that in the southern , most acidified parts of the country , there may be a link between high rates of Alzheimer 's disease and aluminium in water . |
| 21 | But there may be a more useful structure implicit in the teacher 's role itself — as government spokesman . |
| 22 | Prominent among these is lack of spontaneity for which there may be a number of reasons , two of which may be characterised as ( 1 ) a high degree of vested interest , and ( 2 ) a high concern for one 's reputation . |
| 23 | In autumn — as the storms begin again — there may be a re-stirring and distribution of nutrients , and another bloom . |
| 24 | In this area of discussion too there may be a closer theistic structure between the two religious groupings than we are often led to believe . |
| 25 | What I have tried to do here is to suggest , without wanting to be closely associated with Hick 's pseudo-ecumenical approach , that among many of the world 's religions there may be a common understanding of the divine nature . |
| 26 | Behind the differences — which are often more of language and emphasis than of substance — there may be a common view that God is One , present in the world and yet transcending it , personal lord or saviour or protector and yet impersonal reality . |
| 27 | On others there may be a fun night of games and competitions . |
| 28 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 29 | There may be a problem , however , with the steering relay having seized from lack of use . |
| 30 | The law , now in section 6 of the ERA 1988 , still requires all pupils to take part in an act of collective worship ; however , there may be a single act for all pupils or separate acts for different groups of pupils . |