Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [be] [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers may be concerned at the loss of the glossy pages believing that format to be more serviceable in a wet environment but the cartridge paper used on the new book is equally strong and considerably cheaper ! |
| 2 | 6 ) Some of our constituents may be alarmed at the implications of page 3 para 3 , not so much on the question of ‘ equality ’ but of accountability , and the suggestion that Christian Aid should be required to be accountable to our partners would take a lot of explaining . |
| 3 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 4 | We are of course aware that educational levels may be important at some stage , but we do not pre-classify in this way because we do not assume beforehand that we know the sociolinguistic structure of the speech community : this is what we are trying to find out ! |
| 5 | Although we recognise that cancer is a multigene disorder ( with five or six genetic changes needed to induce malignancy ) , some genes may be critical at particular stages and reversal or blockade of a single event may be therapeutically useful . |
| 6 | These carriers of non-penetrant or late onset genes may be heterozygous at codon 129 since heterozygosity at codon 129 might be expected to delay or protect against the onset of clinical disease . |
| 7 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 8 | In some cases downstream users may have to close their intakes , and anglers may be appalled at the sight of dead fish . |
| 9 | The radial shields are quite small , nearly as wide as long , usually separated by a wedge of three or four plates but some shields may be contiguous at their distal ends . |
| 10 | In order to appreciate the reasons why cost records may be inaccurate at any given point in time and therefore will need adjustment before any cost value reconciliation can take place , it will be useful to examine the thinking behind a typical cost system . |