Example sentences of "may [adv] in [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , backlight may not in fact be the culprit . |
| 2 | First , it appears that offenders may not in fact be personally enriched . |
| 3 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 4 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 5 | Many US commentators believe a final decision may not in fact be made before 1995 . |
| 6 | Importantly , the test relates separately to each investment in relation to which the customer is to be treated as an expert , and previous dealings in the investment concerned may not in fact be necessary . |
| 7 | Firstly , who is to say that other subjects — like witchcraft , feminism , radical politics , etc. — may not in time be induced in Section 28 . |
| 8 | Indication of perspective presents another convention in which one thing may not in reality be smaller than another but may be shown as such to indicate that it is further away from the viewer . |