Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [adv] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
| 2 | Even though your settlement may not be in a known danger area , no one can be sure . |
| 3 | The text may either be in a single font or a mixture of fonts ( e.g. Courier , Roman , Helvetica , Bold , Italic etc. ) and different font sizes . |
| 4 | The Poet will protect the Friend 's heart ‘ As tender nurse her babe from faring ill ’ , but after his death then the Friend 's heart may also be in jeopardy : ‘ Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain ; /Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again . ’ |
| 5 | Labour may not be in the business of re-connecting with the past , but its attachment to the future is still confused . |
| 6 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 7 | A patient who believes his delusional thinking may not be in a position to give an informed refusal of medication , because he does not believe he is ill . |
| 8 | Because one of President Nicolae Ceausescu 's many titles is that of chairman of the National Defence Council , and his brother , General Ilie Ceausescu , is head of political administration for the forces , the loyalty of the high command may not be in doubt , but morale in the ranks is low . |
| 9 | Also even after quoting for certain deliveries , that carrier may not be in a position to do the haulage just when required . |
| 10 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |
| 11 | Summary dismissal may not be in breach of contract ( ie you will be unlikely to succeed if you sue for pay for your notice period ) and yet still unfair if your employer behaves unreasonably by , for example : |
| 12 | It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives . |
| 13 | The chancel belonging to the rector may not be in the same style as the nave maintained by the parishioners , reflecting differences in wealth or involvement Even in those churches where the rector was a monastery , there may be a variety of interest displayed , from great ostentation where the monastery has been concerned to maintain its property , to neglect where the church is on a distant or poor estate , or where the monastery itself was poor . |
| 14 | By the time you read this , the last of the old American planemaking herd may well be in French hands . |
| 15 | However , there is no reason why one person may not be in two ( or more ) guises within LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 17 | Klemperer 's live account of Mahler 's Kindertotenlieder with the same orchestra may not be in such good sound , but with Kathleen Ferrier as soloist this is another important document , and it is coupled with an unrivalled version of Brahms 's Liebeslieder-Walzer from the 1952 Edinburgh Festival . |
| 18 | Hence , the receiver may not be in a position to sell the shares . |
| 19 | In Western democracies such as Britain the protester may also be in conflict with the rule of law . |
| 20 | There are grounds therefore for believing that superpower activity in the Middle East may now be in a phase of decline . |
| 21 | After the first ballot they do not have to guess , they know that the leading contenders are Ape and Bear , that Camel may still be in the running but has a lot of ground to make up , and that Donkey and Elephant have very little hope of being elected . |
| 22 | Even though much of this information may already be in electronic form , retrieving the correct document from a database is not simple . |
| 23 | While fluid secretion in human cholera is thought to occur predominantly from the small intestine , recent data suggest that water absorption from the colon is reduced or that the colon may even be in a net secretory state . |
| 24 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 25 | The problem with this argument is , of course , that market forces may sometimes fail , owing to the fact that the customer may not be in a position from which to tell whether he is being treated fairly by the financial conglomerate . |
| 26 | They last between half and two seconds and while their amplitude may only be in the region of 50 microvolts , they may be as large as 250 microvolts from peak to trough ( see Fig. 2.6 ) . |
| 27 | Tizard argues that her study , together with others , suggests that attempts to restore a child to his [ or her ] natural family may not be in the best interests of the child . |
| 28 | The goals of the politician may well be in conflict with those of the official . |
| 29 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |
| 30 | A tenant may not be in a position to determine which definitions are used , but it is a point worth noting . |