Example sentences of "[noun] [ex0] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever doubts there may be about Edward 's commitment to crusade , none can be entertained of John XXII's , for he did all that he could to bring England to a state of peace and Edward to the point of departure . |
| 2 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 3 | whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing . |
| 4 | Whatever reservations there may be about individual decisions from time to time , the basic premise that most planning decisions should be taken locally has never been seriously challenged . |
| 5 | Consensus theorists allocated a very important role to values ; whatever differences in expected behaviour there may be between different groups within a society they consider that a general consensus on the most significant values — central values — must exist for any society to operate satisfactorily . |
| 6 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 7 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 8 | Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood . |
| 9 | But , however many ways there may be of being alive , it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead , or rather not alive . |
| 10 | Whatever perplexities there may be about ontology ( that is , about the nature of the reality described ) there is no perplexity whatever about the procedures . |
| 11 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 12 | He states ‘ whatever internal divisions there may be within the business class are secondary to their common interests in the continuing success of big business as a whole ’ . |
| 13 | The only clues we have are the symptoms and signs , both past and present , and any history there may be of possible precipitating factors . |
| 14 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 15 | What personal records there may be of more general ‘ social life ’ have the limitations that their authors are rarely ‘ ordinary ’ people . |
| 16 | Thousands and thousands of tonnes of rock and gravel face us , and the thought pops into mind that any gold there may be in the area seems to be pretty safe from any chance of extracting it . |
| 17 | What is to be understood as happening is perhaps that , given that someone wants to be Christian , she as a feminist will look for what female representation there may be in the religion , whether or not this is fully satisfactory . |
| 18 | No matter how many cells there may be in the body of an elephant , the elephant began life as a single cell , a fertilized egg . |