Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have my fingers crossed , but my own finances may be on the up . |
| 2 | Our present discussions should show how false this uniqueness is , that ‘ our ’ people have more in common than they allow and that , perhaps , their values are not even dichotomous , although their political ideals may be . |
| 3 | Alternatively , one of its Regional Offices may be contacted for which the address and telephone numbers can be found in local telephone directories . |
| 4 | The nearest to a map-reference which Violet Needham ever gave for her fictional countries may be found in a casual conversation between two schoolboys , one of whom has recently visited : |
| 5 | Its function is to filter the words the higher levels need consider , yet its favourite words may be completely inappropriate from a syntactic and semantic point of view . |
| 6 | It must be remembered that a child with an IQ of 50 may only have the mental age of nine when they leave school , although their social abilities may be reasonably comparable with their actual age . |
| 7 | If she dislikes all outward signs of mourning , wanting people to wear their normal clothes and for the proceedings to be very quiet and simple , that should be for her to decide , but if she is of the old school , who prefer mourners to dress rather sombrely , you should try to persuade the rest of the family to do so whatever their personal opinions may be ; although care must be taken not to cause friction over this or anything else which may sour the family gathering . |
| 8 | The curriculum should help learners acquire and develop ( i ) knowledge and conceptual understanding , ( ii ) skills , ( iii ) personal qualities and attitudes , so that they will be able ( iv ) to take advantage of opportunities and cope with challenges in the various circumstances of their present and future lives — to enable and encourage them to contribute responsibly and constructively to society ( in its various facets ) and so that their personal lives may be enriched . |
| 9 | Police suspect the thieves come from outside the Long Eaton area and it 's thought the youngsters who are aged from eight into their early teens may be organized by adults . |
| 10 | And life for their male counterparts may be no less bleak . |
| 11 | Independence of domestic policies The extent to which floating exchange rates enable governments to have greater independence in their domestic policies may be exaggerated . |
| 12 | our ILEA studies suggest that only about half the difference between reading scores of children from West Indian homes and their white counterparts may be accounted for by socio-economic factors . |
| 13 | Their distal edges may be fringed with granules . |
| 14 | The radial shields are sometimes inconspicuous but in some specimens their distal ends may be distinguishable . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , there remains the problem that countries may not be ready to join the currency by the end of the decade , whatever their current intentions may be . |
| 16 | God grant that here in this great home of eager thought and enlightened action and generous friendship the bitter cry of outcast London may never be intrusive or uninteresting but that year by year her choicest sons may be arrested by it . |
| 17 | Whilst their major contributions may be made later , careful analyses of the research theses written by major contributors to scientific advances can often reveal the underlying intellectual qualities which , applied to important issues , resulted in fundamental shifts in the way the world is viewed . |
| 18 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 19 | This has helped teachers to realise that what they offer specially to their neediest children may be of relevance to others . |
| 20 | Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences , even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical . |
| 21 | Their accurate predictions may be based on infrasound . |
| 22 | Guinness Rogers admitted that ‘ the Federation may not be so potent a factor as its promoters suppose , and one of its nearest perils may be the temptation to take itself too seriously ’ . |
| 23 | However West Germany and its neighbouring countries may be heading for a different pattern . |
| 24 | Like mother , like grandmother : research shows that big babies have big grandmas , even though their own mothers may be small . |
| 25 | ‘ If the saints can secure at will whatever their own wishes may be , it would seem the lady saw fit to turn to me . |
| 26 | The SMILE ( Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment ) team have addressed this issue and suggest ways in which their own materials may be amended to make them more appropriate for bilingual pupils . |
| 27 | What the PBI felt about their own gunners may be gauged from a French estimate that out of ten shells falling on a Verdun trench , ‘ on an average two were provided by the friendly artillery ’ . |
| 28 | Women have massive amounts of love invested in fathers , lovers and sons , and many of these women despise the systems their own men may be helping to sustain . |
| 29 | Rather , as in social anthropology , it is possible to develop a dynamic model in which the student begins from the acute self-consciousness that his or her own concepts may be culture-specific at depths so far unexamined , and so starts out tentatively from them , being ready to revise them in the light of new ethnography . |
| 30 | The benefits offered by the AA are not as substantial as they may , at first sight , appear since the free legal representation scheme may be withheld altogether at the discretion of the Association ; the AA will not negotiate in respect of the defence of claims made against members ; the AA can not give advice or act where the Association or any of its subsidiary companies may be involved . |