Example sentences of "[noun] may be [vb pp] some " in BNC.

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1 The EC Commission 's own environment department may be allocated some of the $6.5 million which , to date , has been earmarked for the new agency .
2 The crĂȘche may be located some distance away from where you will be working , and some have restrictions as to how far away you are allowed to be from your child in case you need to be contacted .
3 Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time .
4 These preliminary definitions of concepts may be given some more substance by considering the relations between them , and also their relations with the concept of economic class .
5 Memoirs and autobiographies may be written some considerable time after a key event , and usually enjoy the benefit of hindsight .
6 Against these traditional and widespread justifications for adverse possession may be compared some modern views against squatters .
7 For example , rubber may be extended some three or four hundred per cent .
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