Example sentences of "[adv] may [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures alone may be as effective a means of recognising house officers as an important part of the service provided as restricting them to one hospital site for their preregistration year . |
| 2 | Large billy goats alone may be quite capable of looking after themselves . |
| 3 | The power of the bureaucracy merely corresponds to the power of the state as a whole and so may be quite compatible with the power ( or lack of it ) exercised elsewhere in the state apparatus . |
| 4 | Furthermore the force needed to do so may be very small . |
| 5 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |
| 6 | A child who cries is undoubtedly afraid , but a child who looks away may be as much indifferent as wary . |
| 7 | They thus suggest that the services offered to non-routine families with problems in child care generally may be highly pertinent to child abuse prevention . |
| 8 | Clearly with greater parity between the sexes the rather traditional view painted here of women afraid to go out and men afraid to go home may be less typical , but the main point remains . |
| 9 | Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support . |
| 10 | Perhaps the answer lies in diversity and in that the very existence of different organizational structures in different countries is a very positive attribute and that when diverse arrangements exist within a single country this also may be highly desirable . |
| 11 | Incidentally , if an aircraft is very difficult to get into a spin , it also may be very difficult to recover . |
| 12 | Here there also may be more compliant subordinates who prefer this more authoritarian style there may be individuals in any organisation who do not want responsibility and who prefer to be told what to do . |
| 13 | Experience suggests , however , that attempting to tackle such problems sympathetically may be more likely to lead to an embittered and protracted dispute ( perhaps because it is seen as an admission that there may be doubt as to whether expulsion is really justified ) than acting decisively and impersonally , refusing to be drawn into arguments with the partner whose expulsion is sought . |
| 14 | Redrawing the Assisted Area Status map now may be somewhat premature . ’ |
| 15 | Markusen fails to mention , of course , the traditional underfunding that has dogged progress and development in many public libraries and her judgement here may be unduly severe . |
| 16 | The method of goal planning we will present here may be particularly helpful for clients with stress related problems . |
| 17 | The characteristics listed here may be quite different to the ones you believe you have . |
| 18 | 10–100 mol/L glutamate is toxic to neurons grown in culture , so the concentrations reported here may be sufficiently high to produce neurotoxicity . |
| 19 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 20 | Interestingly the effect of Oct-1 on the octamer motif at 7731 to 7738 in HPV 16/18 which we have documented here may be only one of multiple effects of Oct-1 on the HPV URR . |
| 21 | This is an example of the abstract view of phonology where the way a word is represented phonemically may be significantly different from the actual sequence of sounds heard , so that the phonetic and the phonemic levels are quite widely separated . |
| 22 | The interviewer will expect you to be slightly nervous , indeed may be rather alienated if you are so laid back that you appear almost indifferent . |
| 23 | Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project . |
| 24 | A bird , for example , on seeing a conspecific nearby may be simultaneously inclined both to approach it and to flee from it : a motivational conflict between attack ( or courtship ) and flight . |
| 25 | It may be obvious that the postholes represent structures , but little else may be immediately apparent . |
| 26 | On the other hand , someone else may be quite convinced that the same convert has been tricked by Satan . |
| 27 | But they may be otherwise arranged as for instance the two ways whether end to end in line , at an angle to one another or otherwise may be oppositely inclined from opposite sides of the head bay and terminate at foot each in its own tail bay connected with the lower pond . |