Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whooping cough may be like this or even asthma . |
| 2 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 3 | But this will not happen without sponsors coming forward to become participants in the WISE vehicle programme Sponsorship may be in the form of : |
| 4 | Thus , a glacial terrace profile may be above the interglacial or Post-glacial profile upstream and below it downstream : the terrace profiles , in fact , cross ( Fig. 9.9 ) . |
| 5 | As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance . |
| 6 | If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture . |
| 7 | The changes in n3 and n6 polyunsaturated fatty acid profile found in inflammatory bowel disease may be of relevance in the pathogenesis of the disease because they influence either tissue eicosanoid synthesis and the membrane lipid composition of the immunocompetent cells . |
| 8 | ( b ) Demand for specialist work may be of an intermittent nature and the builder may have difficulty in providing the operatives with continuity of work . |
| 9 | ICAM-1 expression is only seen , however , in cells that have already undergone some degree of activation and therefore the actual initial adhesion event supporting antigen presentation to the antigen receptor may be between LFA-1 and ICAM-3 . |
| 10 | Allowing then that Handel must have owned several harpsichords , though perhaps not all at one time , the identity of the harpsichord in the Mercier portrait may be of some interest . |
| 11 | In diarrhoea which comes on when there are hot days and cold nights and the nature of the stools keeps changing ( like Pulsatilla ) Infant diarrhoea may be like this . |
| 12 | It is argued , furthermore , that while incentive pay may be of value at all levels in an organisation , it is particularly beneficial at the highest level . |
| 13 | In the second movement Allegro con grazia Koizumi may be on the slow side in the main 5/4 theme , but he is very persuasive , and then in the central section brings out an element of fantasy . |
| 14 | The service charge may be in dispute or there may be an inadvertent omission to pay on the part of the tenant . |
| 15 | If the future of your business could be put in jeopardy by one or two of your main customers not being able to pay you , credit insurance may be worth consideration . |
| 16 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 17 | The introduction of new technology is only one aspect of problem solving in marginal areas and the desirable overall policy package may be to a substantial degree indivisible since changing one part may affect one or all of the other parts at a local , regional , national or European Economic Community ( EEC ) level . |
| 18 | This phylogeny is chosen because some evidence from the fossil record may be in agreement . |
| 19 | Public choice analysis would suggest that local government expenditure may be in danger of ‘ excessive growth ’ if tax perceptibility and accountability are not characteristics of the tax system ( see chapter 14 ) . |
| 20 | Anyway , defeat in the County Shield may be for the best because , let's not be hasty , but after just four games we look like having Division Three wrapped up . |
| 21 | These findings suggest that a cohort effect may be at least in part responsible for the pattern described in recent surveys of increasing prevalence of H pylori antibodies with age . |
| 22 | The products of the repression trade may be of two types : equipment for torture , execution of those which result in ‘ cruel inhuman or degrading treatment ’ such as leg irons ; or equipment which can have an every day use , such as computers and telecommunications ( this category also includes items such as tear-gas and hand guns which can be used legitimately for law-enforcement or crime prevention ) . |
| 23 | Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt . |
| 24 | Watership Down may be up the road , but Basingstoke proved no rabbits . |
| 25 | The wire connecting the main unit to the solenoid valve may be of a light-duty twin type of any reasonable length . |
| 26 | The Battle Standard Bearer may be of any of the Orc or Goblin races indicated . |
| 27 | Flexible though the Formalist/Prague School approach may be in this respect , it still attaches overwhelming importance to the element of innovation in literature , thus reflecting the permanent revolution in poetic language , and in literary forms in general , brought about by the modernist movement from the later nineteenth century onwards . |
| 28 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 29 | In the office , a choice desk location by the window or near the coffee machine may be worth defending . |
| 30 | Finally , wherever health-care reform may be on the stormy seas of the Clinton presidency , the public wants health-care reform . |