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 | At first , however , being unused to the sensations of the journey , they may well be car sick . |
| 5 | They may well be animals who bite the hand which feeds them ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It may also be trouble in the 1st/2nd syncromesh . |
| 9 | It may well be Alan . |
| 10 | it may well be allergy mediated to h pollen or dust or something like that . |
| 11 | Mr Sommerville said : ‘ It may well be drink and drugs were involved and each aggravated the other . |
| 12 | Nowadays it may well be world history , deeply simplified . |
| 13 | It seems you are right — it may well be time for the Party to come out into the open . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may simply be inefficiency at this level , but it could be worse . |
| 16 | It may now be time to risk the uncertainty of a split . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He may sometimes be consultant and analyst ; sometimes investigator and policeman ; but he must also be negotiator and judge ; inspector , educator , and public relations representative . |