Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yours may well be toothache . ’ |
| 2 | You never know , some of the people who come to watch you may well be councillors … |
| 3 | if you living on a low income , you may also be ale to get help with the cost — see pages 8-9 for details . |
| 4 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 5 | At first , however , being unused to the sensations of the journey , they may well be car sick . |
| 6 | They may well be animals who bite the hand which feeds them ! ’ |
| 7 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 8 | However , logical equivalence between two sentences differing only in respect of lexical items occupying a particular syntactic position does not guarantee that the lexical items in question are cognitive synonyms — they may well be pseudo-synonyms . |
| 9 | The company structure introduces the statutory requirement for an audit and the concept of directors ' liability even though they may not be shareholders . |
| 10 | It may also be trouble in the 1st/2nd syncromesh . |
| 11 | It may well be Alan . |
| 12 | it may well be allergy mediated to h pollen or dust or something like that . |
| 13 | Mr Sommerville said : ‘ It may well be drink and drugs were involved and each aggravated the other . |
| 14 | Nowadays it may well be world history , deeply simplified . |
| 15 | It seems you are right — it may well be time for the Party to come out into the open . ’ |
| 16 | But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade . |
| 17 | It may not be chance that the Liber Historiae Francorum names the emperor who called the followers of Priam Franks as Valentinian . |
| 18 | The Gunners swept all before them in October , and it may not be coincidence that their reversal of fortune has accompanied Paul Merson 's switch from the ‘ hole ’ behind the front line to left-wing . |
| 19 | It may not be money that he wants ; and even if he would be satisfied with money , it may be very hard to say what would be a fair compensation for his loss , and a jury may not be the most suitable body for assessing it . |
| 20 | While the names and addresses of potential acquirors can be usefully input on to a database to permit mail merging , it may not be cost effective to use a computerised control log unless a substantial number of potential acquirors are anticipated . |
| 21 | It may not be PC Tools but it 's cheap ! |
| 22 | But she fears bureaucracy may have delayed the day of judgement even further and it may not be June until judgement is given . |
| 23 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 24 | It may simply be inefficiency at this level , but it could be worse . |
| 25 | It may now be time to risk the uncertainty of a split . |
| 26 | It may now be time for the different royal colleges to examine the possible use of a standard hospital letter for all specialties to general practitioners . |
| 27 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 28 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 29 | Tactically , he may not be Brearley or Fletcher , for he sticks with what he knows ; but Brearley or Fletcher could not bat like Gooch . |
| 30 | Tactically , he may not be Brearley or Fletcher , for he sticks with what he knows ; but Brearley or Fletcher could not bat like Gooch . |