Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screening may not be necessary annually , but at least one colonoscopy to the caecum should be performed as polyps may only be present more proximally . |
| 2 | Friends or partners may soon be ill too . |
| 3 | The best reply we can give is : There is a test ( see exercise 1.11.11 ) due to Kronecker which will always tell in a finite number of steps ( which may easily be large enough to require a computer ) whether or not a given element of Q[x] is irreducible . |
| 4 | One of the Russians — left-wing danger man Yury Tishkov — may already be halfway there . |
| 5 | A very , very few of them may still be alive today , with their memories . |
| 6 | Thus , if the consecutive-spill method of handling synonyms has been used , a search may still be necessary even if no home record is detected when the home position is searched . |
| 7 | Even if the child is showing hyperkinetic syndrome , the problem may still be emotional rather than dietary , but certain clues point to food or additives as the triggers . |
| 8 | The grant levels may still be high enough to encourage wet pasture improvements or the drainage of wetlands if land cultivation is not an integral part of the scheme . |
| 9 | Sadism is not an inherently egoistic drive , rather it is the assertive phase of a drive which may also be submissive even in the same person . |
| 10 | The discovery may also be important medically , Dr Zimmern suggested . |
| 11 | If you watch carefully you may also be lucky enough to see the male and female adults mating or to see the females laying their eggs . |
| 12 | He may even be married already . ’ |
| 13 | So long , he may even be dead now |
| 14 | The media may well be anti anyway , which may kill any hopes of further progress . |
| 15 | well that 's right but erm , they may well be small certainly , but er , er what are the other names , premium trust funds there for ? |
| 16 | Even in less overtly sex-segregated cultures , as researchers like Marjorie Goodwin have argued , it is still usual for children to develop their communicational skills within single sex peer groups , and if these are organised differently to do different things , the speech norms girls and boys acquire may well be different too . |
| 17 | IF YOU ARE sufficiently distinguished you may well be lucky enough to be invited to address the prestige conference Advances in Fermentation ‘ 83 to be held in September . |
| 18 | Will there not be some children who , though they may succeed in part of a test , or a test in a specific skill , may yet be unable ever to pass the whole of the test at every stage ? |
| 19 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 20 | Though it may never be possible fully to understand what converts a man to a religion , Eliot 's view of Baudelaire gives us one of the best guides to his own conversion to Christianity . |
| 21 | Now it 's uncertain as to when or if Robin Pask will stand trial , The judge Mr Justice Swinton-Thomas ordered that Pask be admitted to a hospital under the mental health Act , but Leeds Crown Court heard that he was obsessed with thoughts of suicide and may never be well enough to return to the dock . |