Example sentences of "[pron] may [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , of course , many schools other than those listed in the appendix , and also a great many private coaches , all of whom may be found in the publication Contacts , a trade book everyone interested in joining the profession should obtain from the office of The Spotlight , 42–43 Cranbourn St , London WC2H 7AP . |
| 2 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 3 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 4 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 5 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 6 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 7 | There are now serious environmental concerns about a whole range of chemicals that go into these cleaners , and the detrimental effect that some of them may be having on wildlife in rivers and shorelines . |
| 8 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 9 | They 'd been duped into believing the gag ( nothing may be published without sanction from Lord 's ) protected them . |
| 10 | Perhaps some indication of how this reacted on me may be gleaned from memory , One of the medical wing commanders at the hospital — H.E . |
| 11 | Can I say first of all that er I support the general approach which has been adopted by Yorkshire County Council and the the other local authorities in the Greater York area , on the way in which they 've formulated their proposals for the York greenbelt after a fairly long erm and exhausting process , the question to which I want to address my comments first of all is whether the new settlement is an appropriate and justified planning response , and what I would like to do if I may is look at some of the reasons that have been raised erm in objection to the new settlement as a strategy , erm these issues have been raised by Hambledon District , York City Council , the C P R E , Montague Evans , in their written submissions to the examination of the . |
| 12 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 13 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 14 | I may be subdivided into three elements . |
| 15 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 16 | if I strike a child in a manner likely to cause harm it is right that if the child dies I may be charged with manslaughter . |
| 17 | Brave Oates , who was born and raised in Mellor 's Putney constituency , told Scott as he left : ‘ I may be gone for some time . ’ |
| 18 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 19 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 20 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 21 | Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed . |
| 22 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |
| 23 | Quite a large part of that excitement is due to you , to your designs , and , also , if I may be forgiven for mentioning something so personal , for the way you have helped and befriended Therese . |
| 24 | Then again , I may be struck by lightning before I reach the church . |
| 25 | I may be tempted towards didacticism , but this is n't an advice column . |
| 26 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 27 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 28 | As as I see it er it 's and I I may be corrected on this , Professor Lock 's hypothesis is that we over-provide land and then limit release once an |
| 29 | ‘ I may be missing in the memory department , but I do have a brain . |
| 30 | The last sentence could be expanded to ‘ I may be going on holiday with Richard Molland but I 'm not sure . ’ |