Example sentences of "and may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more .
2 This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more .
3 Although support for his party seems to be stagnating and may even be on the decline , it still has an important following , mainly among the poorer working and artisan classes and the retired .
4 If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’
5 It is believed intelligence services have discovered that at least two ‘ mainline bombers ’ are missing from their normal haunts and may already be on the mainland .
6 Queen Elizabeth is already the longest-serving monarch of the twentieth century , and may possibly be on the throne even longer than Victoria .
7 Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes .
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