Example sentences of "[coord] it may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 2 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Which pathway is chosen may be historical accident , or it may be a matter of more deliberate planning by chemists . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It may be as fleeting as a look of acknowledgement when passing the patient 's bed ; or it may be less transient , for example helping the patient through the stages of accepting and coping with chronic illness ; or when a patient has a mental illness , it may be the major emphasis for most interactions . |
| 18 | Or it may be that the formal resource is just not perceived to be of all that much importance . |
| 19 | If some are negative and some positive , it may be possible to add a constant to make them all positive , or it may be necessary to consider treating the positive and negative numbers separately . |
| 20 | It may be pleasant or it may be unpleasant . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | The enamel may be largely removed , leaving islands of cracked and scored enamel ( Fig. 3.20 D , H ) , or it may be entirely missing and the dentine hollowed out and etched so that only the bare outlines of the teeth remain ( Fig. 3.20 F , G ) . |
| 23 | Either a point q in the b -boundary may be a regular boundary point if the space-time can be embedded in a larger space-time such that the Riemann tensor is C r and q is an interior point in , or it may be a singular boundary point if the space-time is not extendable through q in a way . |
| 24 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 25 | The right person may just happen to come along , or it may be necessary to take certain steps to help this happen . |
| 26 | Or it may be a property of its extreme youth . |
| 27 | Or it may be that one of them alone is , after all , the true explanation of the vivid coat of stripes . |
| 28 | Or it may be fungi and other microorganisms growing in humidifiers and being circulated with the air — typical symptoms in such cases are cough , tightness in the chest , fever , aches and pains , and general feelings of malaise . |
| 29 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 30 | The transmission may be simple , the shout ‘ You are standing on my foot ! ’ or a phone conversation , or it may be complicated , as in the example of this book , involving a variety of people who are employed in the publishing , printing , and bookselling businesses . |