Example sentences of "may [adv] be [adj] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be that a firm may only be able to say with any certainty that it expects the rate of return on an investment project to be within a particular range , say 10 to 15 per cent . |
| 2 | Dent Town is really no more than a village , although it may not be prudent to say so in the hearing of the residents . |
| 3 | There are things about irony which it may not be possible to say ironically ; so an ironic essay on irony will fail to address such issues . |
| 4 | We may not be able to say no to those people ourselves , because we imagine that they are as susceptible and sensitive to rejection as we are . |
| 5 | ‘ I may not be able to say very much to the mother and her kids , but I sympathise with them so much because of what my own family went through , ’ he says . |
| 6 | It may still be important to say no , on those grounds , even to older teenagers . |
| 7 | It may even be fair to say that if this were not so , then surely there would never have been any life experience at all . |
| 8 | Furthermore , while it may well be correct to say that the implied licence doctrine ( so long as it survived ) itself involved the " adaptation " of the literal application of the statutory provisions " to meet one special type of case " , I do not think it correct that the [ old ] decisions … authorise or justify an application of the statutory provisions otherwise than in accordance with their ordinary and natural meaning … |