Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historic route may be under the accountant 's scrutiny shortly : the recession in the building industry has led to a falling demand for cement and traffic is down to two or three trains per week . |
| 2 | So , the short-term effect may be on output as firms strive to meet the increased demand , but the eventual effect will be almost entirely on prices . |
| 3 | Also he may be the best person to make certain extrajudicial decisions and his opinions on a range of public matters may be worth hearing . |
| 4 | Similarly , the exaggerated response , in starvation , of the rectal mucosa to a secretory stimulus may be as a result of a lack of luminal SCFA . |
| 5 | At the same time he embarked on a great literary work , Syntagma musicum , in three volumes : I , historical , published at Wittenberg in 1615 ; II , ‘ concerning instruments ’ , 1618 ( with a supplementary volume of illustrations , Theatrum Instrumentorum , in 1620 ) ; and III , 1619 , in which , as in the preface to Polyhymnia , he gives the most copious information as to the heterogeneous ways in which these great Italian-mannered but profoundly German compositions may be performed-with or without continuo , with contrasting groups of instruments , voices soli or ripieni , and so on . |
| 6 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 7 | In terms of this sort of classification , electronic transitions may be of five types : |
| 8 | A substantial amount of cash was recovered from the raid , and it 's possible brave Chris may be in line for a reward . |
| 9 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |
| 10 | ‘ Such gagging of bona fide public discussion in the press of controversial matters of general public interest , merely because there are in existence contemporaneous legal proceedings in which some particular instance of those controversial matters may be in issue , is what section 5 of the Contempt of Court Act was in my view intended to prevent . ’ |
| 11 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 12 | In addition to The Handwriting of English Documents by L.C. Hector already mentioned , the following books may be of value : English Cursive Book-hands 1200–1500 by M.B. Parkes ( London 1979 ) , Elizabethan Handwriting 1500–1650 by G.E . |
| 13 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 14 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 15 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 16 | Something along the following lines may be worth considering , and of course many other simple dishes could be introduced according to their taste , provided each day 's food is well balanced from the point of view of the nourishment elderly people require . |
| 17 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 18 | Making use of government-funded resources may be worth considering . |
| 19 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 20 | The brightly-coloured males may be at greater risk than the dowdy females . |
| 21 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 22 | The whole nervous economy may be in a state of fret and irritation ; worse ( < ) sudden noises , may feel weak and ill afterwards , worse ( < ) music . |
| 23 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 24 | But although I can not do so systematically at this juncture some limited anticipatory comments may be in order . |
| 25 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 26 | An undeniable attraction of an auction is the possibility that some undervalued item may be for sale . |
| 27 | But he is confident enough to assert the best way to tackle the problem of low intelligence among deprived children may be through measures designed to improve their nutrition . |
| 28 | Compromises will certainly have to be made , notably in the positioning of the pond and selection of garden plants and shrubs , but the following tips may be of help : |
| 29 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 30 | As S4 Standard Grade and S5 Higher results are the ones usually referred to in national comparisons , the following facts may be of interest . |