Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] may [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 2 | However , this matter can not be considered resolved and may well be central to future development of our understanding of wall flows . |
| 3 | This cohesive device is a type of " substition by zero " , where one or more items may be deleted but may still be inferred from the linguistic context . |
| 4 | Extreme irritability ; does not want to talk or be disturbed and may later be stupefied , a state of stupor bordering on unconsciousness even . |
| 5 | Centres will then know what units have already been produced and may sometimes be able to avoid duplicating work already done by using existing units which suit their own local needs . |
| 6 | Too few libraries train according to a pre-arranged plan and many are not only unable to justify the methods used for the processes taught but may actually be unaware of what these methods and processes are . |
| 7 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 8 | After the ship became flooded some stores and equipment deep in the holds were probably not recovered and may still be buried in the sand around the wreck . |
| 9 | Here , perhaps , within living memory , the ancient rites were enacted and may yet be again . |
| 10 | The benefits of health services are not well quantified and may never be quantified , particularly in the face of scientific , technological , and organisational change . |
| 11 | The father , Jasim , was captured — but is since believed to have fled and may even be elsewhere in England by now . |