Example sentences of "that [pron] may [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time .
2 ‘ Pray permit me to go to him , that I may be by his side at his coronation .
3 She 's worried that she may be in the early stages of mercury poisoning .
4 It 's when you move from that to communicating domestically that you may be in trouble . ’
5 I want to see evidence of both of them , that is my purpose , that you may be like me .
6 And here I must agree that I am beginning to fear that we may be on the edge of an age of the worst kind of mass production .
7 The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another .
8 Unfazed by the fact that we may be off making a cuppa when his big moment hits the screens , Des has set his sights on playing James Bond in Goldblender , perhaps ?
9 ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region .
10 In our day to day living , in our living , in our service for him , in our worship , in our relationships with one another , in our thinking , our motives , our our everything about us that we may be like him .
11 To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ?
12 A few of our members have prepared very good speeches which they present locally and it would be my hope that we may be in a position in the not too distant future to have a professionally prepared audio/visual promotional aide .
13 It is possible that there may be for instance some appalling typographical gremlin er has crept in to something so that something makes a nonsense .
14 In our part of the world we keep up the brave talk for the sake of the image of the region , so that there may be at least some inward investment and so that those industrialists , small business , training centres , local enterprises and cooperatives which are struggling so hard to make a go of it , will not be discouraged from at least having a go , but there is n't much hope and conviction really .
15 And any influence of Cézanne that there may be in the Demoiselles as it now appears is of the most general kind .
16 Let us consider the problems that there may be in proving the more serious offence of criminal damage .
17 erm and get rid of any institutional price setting that there may or wage setting that there may be in those in those industries .
18 Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience .
19 Campaigners against a proposed waste disposal complex in Renfrew are hopeful tonight that they may be within sight of winning their battle .
20 Sexuality , he pontificated , was one of ‘ the areas of social life that are revealed only to medical men , in the hope that they may be in a position to suggest some mode of relief ’ .
21 Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property .
22 I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world .
23 It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years .
24 Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period .
25 You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues .
26 I enclose the details of No. 22 High Street , as I understand that it may be of interest to your wife 's mother .
27 In other words , the hegemony of the social representation of science can not possibly be total , and there is even evidence that it may be on the wane .
28 There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested .
29 The promise and the fulfilment , let me just give you a couple of verses there in John fourteen , John make er , Jesus he makes this statement to his disciples , in John fourteen , in verses sixteen and seventeen , and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper , another word for the Holy Spirit , that he may be with you forever .
30 It is , therefore , appropriate for the liquidator , when he thinks that he may be under a duty to try to recover something from some officer or employee of a company , or some other person who is , in some way , concerned with the company 's affairs , to be able to discover , with as little expense as possible and with as much ease as possible , the facts surrounding any such possible claim .
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