Example sentences of "may be [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 2 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 3 | ( b ) Demand for specialist work may be of an intermittent nature and the builder may have difficulty in providing the operatives with continuity of work . |
| 4 | Such work may be on an individual or group project basis . |
| 5 | His only contact with its hardware may be with an interactive terminal ( if he is lucky ) , or with a series of error messages couched in terms of the internal structure of the computer ( if he is unlucky ) . |
| 6 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 7 | There is no need to pay in advance for the work even if you are asked to do so ; you may be in an awkward position if the firm ceases to trade without having completed the job . |
| 8 | Although the Chronicle for Cnut 's reign is evidently something of a patchwork , much of it may be from an early date . |