Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] may [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 2 | This sort of personal experience adds a potent deterrent effect to more objective considerations which may already be swaying lenders against a particular group or class of potential customers . |
| 3 | Politically the post-1945 world has not been unified , but bi- polar , and organised round two superpowers which may just be describable as jumbo-sized nations , but certainly not as parts of an international state system of the 19th-century or pre-1939 type . |
| 4 | The gin trap has been replaced by other traps which may not be as effective but which are more humane . |
| 5 | Drama training is under constant review through the accreditation system , so that standards are maintained and new developments assessed , and schools which may not be in the accredited list today may well be there soon . |
| 6 | Biochemical aspects which may also be important include further elucidation of the metabolism of HDL and its subfractions , the apoprotein B composition and its effect on LDL metabolism , and the interrelationships of serum lipids with other factors , for example , platelet function . |
| 7 | Making a video record of the drive both makes it possible to check the accuracy of memories and to record driving variables which may also be related to memory . |
| 8 | In practice , this is unlikely to prove a problem for directors of private companies who are probably also the shareholders , but directors of public companies do have to consider whether it is in the interests of the company and the shareholders to agree to a lock-out clause at a figure which may not be the highest obtainable . |
| 9 | The employees in such departments are often out of touch with changes in public opinion , relying instead on research data which may not be framed in a context most likely to discover what changes of attitude are occurring in consumer habits . |
| 10 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 11 | It is a technique which may also be developed further to incorporate ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ yet does not ignore traditional and worthwhile methods . |
| 12 | A small company , perhaps exploring foreign markets for the first time , will have requirements different from those of larger institutions which may already be tried and tested in the international arena . |
| 13 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 14 | The tenant may wish to avoid responsibility for structural or inherent defects , ie the rectification of faults in the design or construction of a building which may otherwise be passed on to the tenant by virtue of the general effect of a tenant 's covenant to repair . |
| 15 | The LFA Directive differs from other CAP provisions in that its broad objective is to support an area of agriculture which may not be best suited for production . |
| 16 | These actions can all be part of letting go of a painful stage of life , and will help the children and family remember happy times which may otherwise be forgotten . |
| 17 | In letters , prescriptions , shopping lists , school essays , the reader normally pushes through a once-for-all interpretation of a text which may never be read again . |
| 18 | The character on stage , for reasons which may possibly be explained by the insertion of a line or two into the script , wears a deaf-aid … ’ |
| 19 | Contemporaries believed that Edward was persuaded to revive his claim in 1337 by Robert of Artois who , according to a story which may well be apocryphal and which has attracted widely differing interpretations , placed a heron before the king at a banquet . |
| 20 | The present system of allocations , in which some stately committee offers the franchise to the most persuasive ( or plausible ) claimant on the basis of pledges which may never be fulfilled , is , all agree , very near indefensible . |
| 21 | Thus , mundane objects such as clam-shell axes and fish hooks may be used to objectify a concept of self-development and self-created change which may potentially be a powerful force in the rise of post-colonial states ( Miller 1980 ) . |
| 22 | An interesting finding which may also be relevant is that there have been reports of a triglyceride-enriched LDL present in diabetics , regardless of type and treatment ( Schonfeld et al , 1974 ; Mancini et al , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 24 | This idea of an optimum arousal level which may easily be upset by under- or overstimulating conditions has also been put forward by Venables ( 1964 ) . |
| 25 | In the case of both the ERM and the Single Currency , the weak country is at the mercy of the strong one and is forced to run policies which may well be diametrically against its own interests . |
| 26 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 27 | Speakers ' use of creole varieties lie along a continuum , from varieties of creole which may well be incomprehensible to a speaker of Standard English , to varieties much closer to Standard English ; |
| 28 | Every row in a table has a unique combination of attribute values which may therefore be used to identify the row . |
| 29 | The study of variation within a bilingual community introduces complexities which may not be apparent in what is construed to be a single monolingual " speech community " like Labov 's New York City . |
| 30 | Other examples of rules which may not be congruent with the requirements of fiduciary law are SIB Core Rule 2 , which states that where a firm has a material interest it must not knowingly act for the customer unless it takes steps to ensure his " fair treatment " ( this may not be sufficient under fiduciary law ) , and SIB Core Rule 25 which in conjunction with SFA Conduct of Business Rule 5 — 36(2) permits " front running " . |