Example sentences of "may be [noun] or [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top earners in Latin America may be owners or managers , they may work in foreign or local firms and they may work in state or private enterprises . |
| 2 | Where residential accommodation is occupied by two or more persons the occupiers may be licensees or tenants of the whole or each occupier may be a separate tenant of part . |
| 3 | These opinion formers may be groups or individuals . |
| 4 | There are any number of reasons why such loans may be successes or failures , which go well beyond the conditions for the disbursement of the loans . |
| 5 | It includes the presence of other animals that may be predators or competitors for food , animals of other species that may communicate with it in finding food or raising an alarm , and individuals of its own species that interact with it in many ways , competitively , nepotistically , and in co-operation . |
| 6 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 7 | Erm , well I think that er , the report of these er , resolutions and er , of this resolution , and er , so er , but there may be questions or comments on it , so no alright , then er , let me put it to you . |
| 8 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |
| 9 | It may be months or years before his work today makes an impact : in the case of a project failure it may never do so . |
| 10 | There may be folklore or legends attached to sites , which should always be recorded . |
| 11 | Snails may be food or pests . |
| 12 | It may be rocks or caves , bogwood , the tank 's side or base , undergravel filter plates or gravel tidy ( once they have dug the gravel up ) , even an uplift tube or heaterstat . |
| 13 | The Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 ( as amended ) require that an RB must have at least one solicitor shareowner and at least one solicitor director , and that only solicitors and RFLs may be shareowners or directors . |
| 14 | They may be neurotics or malingerers or both . |
| 15 | This type of picture is almost exclusively related to the isolation of grand negative organisms from the blood , these may be phacili or cocci , does n't really make any er , any difference . |