Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 2 | The main conclusion we may draw is that significant numbers of the adult population are actively involved in the care and assistance of older people . |
| 3 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 4 | These were designed partly to ensure the survival of a minimum level of service provision in rural areas , and , in the face of the continued decline of rural services , such a policy may have been necessary m some locations . |
| 5 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 6 | The development of the double helix structure of DNA may have been one such improvement in the early stages . |
| 7 | ‘ It was only much later , when it was too late to change anything , that I glimpsed the possibility that this may have been one small way in which I had a slight advantage over Gittel . |
| 8 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 9 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 10 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 11 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 12 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 13 | Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension . |
| 14 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 15 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 16 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 17 | There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested . |
| 18 | There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe . |
| 19 | It may have been this subjective judicial approach which led to the strange result in Attwood . |
| 20 | But the Sea Sparrows may have been tracking imaginary aircraft when they were fired . |
| 21 | Second , there may have been severe emotional damage in the past : broken or spoiled relationships with loved ones or with church leaders that have led to unbelief and lack of expectation that God would pour his Spirit into our lives . |
| 22 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |