Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 2 | Or social activities and institutions may be an important adjunct of study — as with many professional courses . |
| 3 | LOSING your favourite gems may be a personal disaster . |
| 4 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ? |
| 5 | Devolution of responsibility from central government to regional and district health authorities may be a good thing , but when this includes the collection and use of important NHS data it hampers monitoring of national programmes like that for modernising mental health care . |
| 6 | Flexibility and the location of ligand-binding sites close to the top of adhesion molecules may be a general feature of their organization . |
| 7 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 8 | But while the perceived effect of events on future plans may be a critical factor in the development of affective disorder , such general interpretations of events do not appear to offer much scope for intervention . |
| 9 | Unwritten rules may be a precarious basis on which to run a factory . |
| 10 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 11 | Bursts of non-deglutitive simultaneous contractions may be a normal oesophageal motility pattern |
| 12 | Guar bread 's twin features of higher fibre and fewer calories may be the best thing to have happened to the bread industry since sliced bread . |
| 13 | Other people prefer to take animals as sexual objects ( keeping pets may be a sublimated form of this ) . |
| 14 | A decision made in the light of wider considerations may be a better decision . |
| 15 | These shiny , silver-coloured tins may be an unusual choice , but they fitted the scheme perfectly . |
| 16 | It has been suggested by Dobbins that the defective T cell responses may be a secondary phenomenon , resulting perhaps from the combination of anergy triggered by infection , incomplete intestinal lymphatic obstruction , and severe malnutrition . |
| 17 | Microphones may be no real answer , but with the exception of Louis Hagen-William 's Porgy and Daniel Washington 's Crown none of the voices had adequate carrying power without them . |
| 18 | Similar behaviour has been seen in compact galactic X-ray binaries , and we suggest that intensity-correlated QPOs may be a generic feature of accretion onto a compact object . |
| 19 | The reason for the high number of sunken buildings in some areas may be the greater drainage potential of gravel and sand than chalk . |
| 20 | The IUCN fears that the demise of amphibians may be an early sign of a wider ecological threat . |
| 21 | But more telling criticisms may be the restricted nature and the lack of any formal mechanism to follow through on its reports . |
| 22 | Coal miners may be a suitable group for gastric premalignancy screening using an upper gastrointestinal symptom questionnaire and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy . |
| 23 | Salmon is relatively easy to eat , otherwise fish pie with pastry and leeks or fish cakes may be the best ways to eat fish . |
| 24 | The provision of reasons will increase an expert 's vulnerability to claims , because the details of the workings and calculations may be the very evidence that would otherwise be lacking . |
| 25 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 26 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 27 | Substantial investments in distribution systems or overseas plants may be the only means of overcoming barriers which otherwise would make it impossible to reap the full returns from a given technical process . |
| 28 | However , Schmidt , Hunter and their associates ( 1977 , 1979 , 1980 , 1981 ) demonstrated that much of the variance among obtained validity coefficients may be a statistical artifact resulting from small sample sizes , criterion unreliability and restriction of range in employee samples . |
| 29 | The stated goals of actors or groups can not be accepted at face value since such statements may be the simple camouflage of more sinister or at least less acceptable policy goals . |
| 30 | But perhaps these explanations may be a little bit too versatile for modern tastes : |