Example sentences of "may be [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 2 | For instance , most girls come from lower income families — often one-parent families — and may be early school leavers . |
| 3 | It is tempting to speculate that this factor may be early childhood sun exposure , which not only causes development of large numbers of naevi but also acts as an initiating agent for later development of melanoma . |
| 4 | Also , particularly if you are self-employed or own a business , there may be certain tax advantages as well as possible scope for improving your pension . |
| 5 | There may be other research fields where this is not the case , but in chemistry , physics , and the other physical sciences , including geology , specificity in the titles of theses is the norm . |
| 6 | They may be proteolytic degradation products of ATF1 or CREB or may represent novel bZIP proteins . |
| 7 | For example , if the warehousing department is considering a reduction in finished goods stocks , this will affect production ( less output needed ) and sales ( there may be inadequate stock levels to meet customer demand without a waiting list ) . |
| 8 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 9 | This contains the experience and depth of the insider 's knowledge , which Holdaway ( 1979 ) recognizes is unlikely to become readily available , simply because ‘ there is a lack of impetus within contemporary sociology to spend lengthy periods of observation in what may be uncomfortable research situations [ with the police ] ’ . |
| 10 | They may be front wheel drive , they may be rear wheel drive . |
| 11 | They may be front wheel drive , they may be rear wheel drive . |
| 12 | While I understand that the Midlothian Area Social Work Office is in the process of preparing a response , there may be general policy issues which you would wish addressed . |
| 13 | Random Century Tellastory have some good things for children , particularly acceptable when there may be long car journeys in prospect , and perhaps some rainy days at home or away . |
| 14 | All vendors should seek specialist tax advice if considering deferring consideration through an earn out as there may be adverse capital gains tax consequences particularly if the earn out is not achieved . |
| 15 | If the unconfined part of the aquifer is beneath high ground , and the confined part beneath low ground , then the potentiometric surface may be above ground level . |
| 16 | This chapter may be useful back-up material but ONLY if used with the up-to-time normal speech . |
| 17 | Beds are not always interior sprung divans , they may be built-in platform beds or a spring mattress on a wire mesh base . |
| 18 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |
| 19 | SOCRATES and Plato may be unlikely corner men for an aspiring heavyweight champion , but Lennox Lewis , the man reluctantly carrying the tag of the next Frank Bruno , is a lover of philosophy , and admits to being ‘ one of those deep-thinking kind of guys ’ . |
| 20 | However , each of these concepts may be potential search keys and as such may be described by terms which exhibit any one of the problems listed in I to 4 above . |
| 21 | In turn , that may be damaging child health care in the county . |
| 22 | Some of these may be local authority centres , offering tuition on a sessional basis at between £2 and £6 an hour ; others are professional sailing schools , usually situated in the popular UK holiday areas where a week 's fully residential course will cost up to about £200 . |
| 23 | There may be unfavourable entropy contributions arising from non-random mixing . |
| 24 | When feeding on natural food items there may be free amino acids which the carp can detect . |
| 25 | Unsuspecting bargain hunters buying fake designer T-shirts and other goods at car boot sales may be supporting drug gangs and even terrorists . |
| 26 | Douglas and Craig ( International Marketing Research ) comment that in some countries , there may be different market segments for the same product , where : |
| 27 | Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity . |
| 28 | Such electrodes can be of several types ; they may be fine glass tubes filled with solutions of drugs or salts to be pumped out close to specific cells , or they may be ‘ stimulating electrodes ’ designed to deliver trains of electric pulses — of the sort described in relation to LTP . |
| 29 | There may be significant entry barriers to the upper echelons of the industry , resulting from intertemporal dependencies on the demand and cost side , and from strategic competition , both of which create sunk costs . |
| 30 | In due course there may be significant business opportunities in these countries , but the immediate need is for educational help . |