Example sentences of "may be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 2 | But feminists may be well aware that , in calling God Father , it is not intended to say that God literally has sexuality , while yet wanting to maintain that this is problematic . |
| 3 | It may be generally true that the natural language use which constitutes the goal of learning is realized by a focus on meaning rather than form , and is a matter of top-down rather than bottom-up processing , but the process of arriving at that goal , the development of the authenticating ability , calls for an effective internalization of form and capability of analysis which will allow for their use across a wide and unpredictable range of different contexts . |
| 4 | Although this sounds as if it might be extremely uncomfortable , the cervix , like the vagina , is surprisingly poorly supplied with sensory nerve-endings , and a relaxed patient may be totally unaware that any samples are being taken from this site . |
| 5 | Unless you are actually underwater , you may be dimly aware that music is playing poolside . |
| 6 | There is even a suggestion that rewards which are routine and expected may be more motivating that the ones given only for extra special effort . |
| 7 | So much material may be readily available that some staff can feel that a little bit would not be missed . |
| 8 | It may be highly critical that the actual language will be completely different in the register . |
| 9 | The light may be so poor that I can hardly see anything at all anyway . |
| 10 | A patient may be so anxious that he can not begin to act in a way which would resolve his problems . |
| 11 | The danger is , of course , that the price may be so low that the business fails to generate sufficient revenue to cover its operating and/or capital costs . |
| 12 | The lack of clarity may be so total that it is comparatively meaningless to seek to identify a policy or to study its implementation . |
| 13 | The June exhibition may be so successful that the Hermitage would consider showing some of its own trophy collection alongside the one from Bremen . |
| 14 | Old galvanised iron rising main and cold feed pipes can usually be removed with Stillsons ; a metal overflow pipe may be so rusted that the only answer is to cut it off . |
| 15 | Eventually it may be so long that it reaches the other side of the gap and becomes entangled in a leaf or a twig . |
| 16 | Then allow the particles to move apart in such a way that the combined wave function does not change even though the distance between the particles may be so great that there is no longer any possibility of mutual interaction : in principle this could be many kilometres . |
| 17 | An acute effect of alcohol on the brain is that memory functions may be so disrupted that they temporarily fail altogether and this results in a " blankout " , as previously described . |
| 18 | In arid climates there is generally insufficient surface water , whereas in periglacial regimes frost action may be so effective that solutional forms have little time to develop . |
| 19 | Repairs are expected to costs hundreds of millions of dollars , and French scientists have admitted that damage to some reactors may be so serious that they will have to be closed on safety grounds . |
| 20 | You may hurt yourself when you hit the ground , or your opponent may be so close that he or she can hit you immediately . |
| 21 | As dawn breaks and your testosterone level lifts naturally to begin the day , the memories of the banquet if provided last night may be so powerful that you can hardly wait to begin again . |
| 22 | Indeed , competition may be so fierce that pricing is based on a Contribution basis , that is , covering variable costs and only a proportion of the business ' fixed costs . |
| 23 | In addition , the charge may be so all-embracing that it confers on the chargee as a matter of fact the exclusive right to supply the debtor company with credit . |
| 24 | Severe pain , muscle seizure and heart failure may end in rapid death ; or the pain may be so intense that the victim is unable to swim and drowns . |
| 25 | Further , on some small computers the subsidiary information field to specify a rich set of jump conditions may be so large that there is no room in the instruction for a jump address field . |
| 26 | With some organisations , the various subsystems may be so large that the boundary might be defined around accounts or personnel . |
| 27 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
| 28 | Some of these symptoms may be so extreme that the psychotic quality of the condition is clearly evident . |
| 29 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 30 | In some cases , the handicap may be so severe that the fullest possible efforts may not be taken to prolong the life of the afflicted child , and this has given rise to much public concern about medical ethics . |