Example sentences of "may be [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 2 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 3 | Certain cities cast a bewitching spell on people — no matter how fond you may be of country life or seaside resorts , Italy 's cities are just the type to enchant . |
| 4 | The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find — dismaying though that may be for party propagandists . |
| 5 | Or it may be for rule breach , such as a late delivery under the LIFFE Bund contract . |
| 6 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |
| 7 | The I was n't talking about what were included in the calculations , what I was talking about and we may be at cross purposes for that reason is what the policy provides for . |
| 8 | and computer may be via ribbon cable or individual wires drawn together into a neat harness secured with cable ties . |
| 9 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 10 | The question of er P P G thirteen and transportation I think is vitally important , York will come into the position that Chester er where I was just at a transportation enquiry recently , it 's a very similar sort of city , it 's not quite the same as Cambridge , where Cambridge is leaping ahead on quite , some would say draconian transportation measures , York in the forceable future will have to look at specialist transportation measures , that 's important in terms of the planning policy guidance that is out , it 's also in the white paper , it may be in draft P P G thirteen , it 's also in I think it 's P P G twenty two , renewable energy , that we should now be looking at developments which is closer to work , that links then to the question of sustainability and viability of a new settlement , I am not aware , and and I put it guardedly in those terms , of any significant employment existing or proposed in any of the new settlement proposals . |
| 11 | The original juice may be from cider apples , but it is just as likely to be imported eating apple juice concentrate . |
| 12 | ( iii ) Payment ( this may be by CREDIT CARD — your signature is required together with A/c No. and card expiry date . |
| 13 | Thus routine sampling of effluents , ordered though it may be by laboratory capacity , must be organized by the field officer to appear unpredictable . |
| 14 | The problem was that Kier had friends in the town council and , as Campbell pointed out , ‘ my eneemys here have wrote to My Lord Grange ; if the man is sett at liberty I begg it may be by y[ou]r interest , and that you 'll be so good as write me so , for it will do me service in this place ’ . |
| 15 | Assessment of extent , however , may be by barium enema , colonoscopy or both . |