Example sentences of "[pers pn] may in [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 The air is dry and clean so you may in fact be better off over there .
2 erm If you further make things difficult from the point of view of actually banning imports of timber from Uganda you may in fact be able .
3 Even when we do not follow a conscious spiritual path in terms of a religious faith , we may in fact be realising our purpose in some other way .
4 They may in practice be the only things that do .
5 Importantly , they may in fact be helping you come to terms with the traumatic experience .
6 Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view .
7 Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery .
8 It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning .
9 In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background .
10 I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence .
11 Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) .
12 And this will make Pooh 's inference from Eeyore 's sigh to what Eeyore believes safer than his inference from Rabbit 's words to what Rabbit believes : because that inference does depend on Rabbit 's wanting to tell Pooh the truth , whereas , as we 've remarked , he may in fact be lying .
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