Example sentences of "[pron] may [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 2 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 3 | Part of the task of the Census Dissemination Unit has been to encourage academics who may not be computer literate to use the data . |
| 4 | First , we need to have more control and accountability for our clinical practice ; second we need to further develop our analytical skills to make us more confident and effective members of the multidisciplinary team , and third , by appreciating the managerial themes in our work we should be better equipped to establish constructive dialogues with our managers who may now be non-nurses . |
| 5 | The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war . |
| 6 | You never know , some of the people who come to watch you may well be councillors … |
| 7 | if you living on a low income , you may also be ale to get help with the cost — see pages 8-9 for details . |
| 8 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 9 | Hence , different experiments may not be directly comparable , and there may similarly be difficulties of comparison between experiment and theory . |
| 10 | Once new operators start to look towards the itchy-footed turboprop pilots to fulfil their needs , everyone can start moving up a step and there may again be room on the first rung of the ladder . |
| 11 | In the long term there may even be Nicholson 's pubs appearing in the business centres of other cities . |
| 12 | In a trial each subject stands to benefit ( though in the event no benefit may arise or there may even be risk of harm ) , but in non-preventive or non-therapeutic research the experimental subject is simply assisting the researcher to obtain biological data — for example , how a particular drug is excreted . |
| 13 | There may also be difficulties about parental responsibility for their children . |
| 14 | There may also be signs that liquid rock flowed around the crater , from impact melted materials . |
| 15 | In the younger age range , there may also be spouses who have not yet reached retirement age and are still in paid employment . |
| 16 | There may also be inheritance tax implications , so if you are thinking of leaving or giving your home to someone , you are strongly advised to consult a solicitor or accountant . |
| 17 | There may also be benefits in terms of decision taking within the company concerned . |
| 18 | There may also be provisions between the institutional investors and management about plans for future flotation . |
| 19 | If they do not achieve office they are still in a special relationship to government in which , while some advantages may accrue from being a member of the ruling party and having many colleagues and friends in office , there may also be disadvantages in that party allegiance implies a duty to support the government . |
| 20 | There may also be scope for new approaches to the care of elderly severely mentally infirm people now in hospital . |
| 21 | There may also be scope for working with voluntary organisations . |
| 22 | There may also be effects on movement such as stereotypies ( persistent repetition of acts or words ) , a severe loss of coordination , and pronounced analgesia . |
| 23 | If p(x) then x is in the cluster but there may also be objects x , in the cluster , for which p is false . |
| 24 | There may also be problems for homosexuals in a residential home . |
| 25 | There may also be problems of boundary changes resulting either from major local-government reorganization or from more local adjustments . |
| 26 | There may also be problems in deciding on the segmentation of a word into letters e.g. the letter combination cl can easily confuse with the letter d . |
| 27 | There may also be problems with buildings in the course of construction . |
| 28 | There may also be sub-categories of criminals committing different types of crime caused by different types of factors . |
| 29 | Now that humanitarian sea lanes are to be open , does the Foreign Secretary accept that there may also be merit in the British Government promoting the idea of an internationally enforced sky protection zone over Croatia to prevent incursions and the further bombardment of Croatian cities ? |
| 30 | There may also be collateral benefits . |