Example sentences of "[adj] may [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that may be good enough for other girls , but not for her . |
| 2 | At le weekend some Brownies might play le football and some may be lucky enough to go sailing on un yacht . |
| 3 | This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site . |
| 4 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 5 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 6 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 7 | While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) . |
| 8 | While this may be true sometimes there is also often much truth in the saying that ‘ an untidy desk means a cluttered mind ’ . |
| 9 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 10 | Ideally , C1 should also be connected on the radio-circuit side of the on-off switch , but this may be difficult mechanically . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another may be dishonest notwithstanding that he is willing to pay for the property . |
| 12 | The accused may be guilty even though he does not in ordinary language obtain a service . |