Example sentences of "[n mass] may be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 FASTER , quieter aircraft may be good for people — but not for the world 's natural fliers .
2 The knowledge of the likelihood of such modifications and of the probable direction of the changes as suggested by the Hungarian data may be helpful in the explanation of variance found in the relationship among developed and , recently , also among developing countries .
3 In such a situation , further collection of data may be pointless in the absence of any fresh conceptual insight .
4 The researcher who cautiously confines his conclusions to those strictly justified by the data may be safe from criticism , but he is not making his own full potential contribution .
5 Any number of people may be involved in these roles , whilst it would be quite normal for one person to fulfil more than one of these roles .
6 Information from any of these people may be helpful in completing an assessment and planning future care .
7 In addition , more people may be subject to early retirement .
8 Some older people may be pre-occupied with these negative aspects of their lives , where the counsellor will be dealing with a lack of personal satisfaction and fulfilment , failed relationships , unfulfilled hopes , and even perhaps with events that elicit feelings of disgrace and shame .
9 Other people may be frightened by your blunt arrogance , but do n't make the mistake of including me in that category …
10 If there has been an investment failure , people may be eligible for compensation either from the investment company or from the compensation scheme , depending on the precise circumstances of the individual case .
11 Some people may be exempt from inclusion on the Community Charge Register and thus from payment of Community Charge , examples are : —
12 Here , records on all media may be subject to the scrutiny and approval of a regulatory body and have to be produced and retained as part of a validated system where dates and times , source and receipt , version control and audit of changes must be an integral part of the system and that system approved by the regulatory body .
13 Suppliers staff may be involved in training , particularly for product demonstration , if this is representative of their normal support .
14 SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb .
15 selective predators often take prey in proportion to its presence in the community , so that the dominant prey species is also the most abundant species in the community , but less common small mammal species may be unrepresented in the predator 's prey assemblage ;
16 The new species may be unique to Wales .
17 Time series may be decomposable into components representing temporal trend and seasonal variation thus permitting production of de-seasonalized figures .
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