Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless such a contract may be frustrated at common law . |
| 2 | An extendable leash may be helpful at this stage . |
| 3 | Even if advance disclosure is made , further disclosure may be necessary at the time of a transaction if an actual conflict arises . |
| 4 | The administration 's success or failure may be clear at the end of the summer ; very little is clear now . |
| 5 | Other companies may prefer ‘ bolt-on-on ’ acquisitions to takeovers — buying a division of another group may be possible at a lower multiple than buying a company outright . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , tropical rain forest may be flammable at the edges , so that savanna may spread . |
| 7 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 8 | If management can obtain high levels of output from individual workers by designing jobs , such as those on assembly lines , which force people to work hard then output may be high at the expense of job satisfaction . |
| 9 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4·6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 10 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4.6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 11 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 12 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 13 | Thus the Tibetan Book of the Dead had stressed that ‘ on whatever sphere of being the mind of a man may be intent at the time of death ’ , this would determine his future state . |
| 14 | Simpler systems are possible — for example , all the options in the program may be available at any time , and in certain circumstances this may be preferable . |
| 15 | However , a simple data reformatting program may be available at your computing centre to help you convert data from one format to another . |
| 16 | More organization may be visible at Corbridge , but the resulting insulae are still very irregular . |
| 17 | We found frequent expression of all the xenobiotic metabolising enzymes studied in colonic adenomas showing that an increase in the expression of these enzymes is a comparatively early molecular event during the development of colonic neoplasia and suggests that their expression may be important at the adenoma stage of colonic neoplasia . |
| 18 | The reading difficulty is not due to some very peripheral visual defect , since the patient may be perfect at identifying letters ( e.g. Warrington and Shallice , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | A minor fraction of phosphatidylserine may be present at the outer surface of platelets , but this can not usually be detected . |
| 20 | In practice certain aspects of an implementation may be discernible at an architectural level , most noticeably in coping with hardware faults and in the possibilities for enhancing program performance . |
| 21 | Even if a policy of controlling the money supply may be optimal at present , if previously held relationships break down under rapid financial change , then the rationale for controlling the money supply may disappear . |
| 22 | If the soil is too wet , only the most obvious features are likely to be clearly visible , while if the soil is too dry , no differences in soil colour and texture may be distinguishable at all . |