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

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1 There may be scope for similar challenges to an expert 's decision arising from other aspects of the contract between the parties : for instance , the conditions precedent to the right to refer a dispute to an expert may not have been met , in which case the entire reference will be premature .
2 Democratic mechanisms must be conceived as operating at different levels : within the operating units there may be scope for direct participative democracy perhaps also involving factory committees in close touch with the workforce ; at the level of the enterprise , direct democracy would probably be impractical and some form of representative mechanism would be required .
3 Outdoors , there is space , but there may be problems with light if the occasion is held during hours of darkness as well as uncertainties about the weather .
4 That is especially true for travelling , mountaineering and similar accidents , when weekends may be times of maximum need .
5 These may be members of local community groups or unemployed centres and/or paid staff of particular projects or paid staff working in the community .
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7 Not people who are experienced in object programming , but who may be expert in legal or manufacturing objects , for instance .
8 There may be difficulties in particular law centres in finding the right balance between assisting clients in individual cases and taking on group work or projects , but it seems unduly restrictive to deny that the latter was a proper role for lawyers to play .
9 There are none of the problems of tracking down shareholders who may exist across a number of States , and who may be subsidiaries of other bodies .
10 On individual time sheets there may be hours of non-chargeable time , for example unproductive time spent waiting in the yard or time spent by apprentices in training or at college .
11 What I looked for , but only occasionally glimpsed , was the recognition that , though differing frameworks of shared assumptions may be barriers to effective understanding , the rewards can be substantial — if not for what we learn about the alien systems then for what we may discover about our own previously unquestioned beliefs .
12 Previous research has suggested that there may be barriers to particular types of occupation which selectively prevent women from entering them .
13 On many issues , the convergence with the Liberal Democrats is so marked that there may be mileage in cross-party initiatives .
14 There may be errors in medical records or in transferring information from medical records to discharge register files .
15 In addition to rising wage costs , other cost increases may be sources of inflationary pressure .
16 Sometimes , the problem may be lack of fresh air , especially if the house has been well draught-proofed .
17 It may be part of departmental cuts or administrative reorganization .
18 According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities .
19 As we have seen , linguistic variables may be markers of certain fine-grained social functions within the community , which can be broadly considered to be identity functions , and which may appear as age , sex or areal differences , for example .
20 Maps at larger scale ( 1:10 000 or 6 inches to the mile ) can usually be obtained but some may be copies of old , unpublished manuscript maps which date from the last century .
21 There are also classes-in-struggle in every society , but the nature of these varies according to local circumstances and history : thus in one place there may be struggle within civil society between religious groups , for example , whereas in others such struggle may be absent , despite a lack of religious homogeneity .
22 On the other hand , there may be moments of real illumination and discovery , when someone makes a comment that springs from a quite different frame of reference from one 's own .
23 Although there may be discussion of specific types of offence , the committees are not empowered to discuss individual cases or deal with complaints against individual officers .
24 It reviews research that has already been conducted in this area and offers suggestions as to what may be priorities for future support .
25 They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars .
26 ( 5 ) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice any liability or remedy to which a person guilty of an offence thereunder may be subject in civil proceedings .
27 Traders may be companies with limited liability or joint-stock companies with registered shares only whose issued capital is not less than 50 million forints and whose sole object is the dealing in securities .
28 On the grassland , now thoroughly moistened , patches and rings of darker green grass that may be signs of underground fungal growth are materialising like watermarks .
29 There may be signs in recent cases of a move towards a more pragmatic approach based on the premise that only restrictions which produce a significant effect in the market fall within Article 85(1) .
30 The ‘ history of the common man ’ ( that is , the history unspecialized people make ) may be moonshine by professional standards , but it shapes people 's understanding of the world , and their decisions about how to act , like any other assimilated experience .
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