Example sentences of "may be [prep] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues . |
| 2 | In general , secondary porosity may be of greater importance than primary porosity in the deeper prospects . |
| 3 | Elemental , annotated or operational bills may be of greater value but the most reliable system is to take off the quantities from the drawings . |
| 4 | Opportunities for communication may have been reduced ; the concentration needed to listen attentively may be for shorter periods ; the whole process of comprehension and response may have slowed down . |
| 5 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 6 | Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers . |
| 7 | The brightly-coloured males may be at greater risk than the dowdy females . |
| 8 | If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture . |
| 9 | A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that management can provide alternative more attractive forms of work organisation but these may be at higher cost . |
| 10 | In America , companies that launch underwritten secondary issues see their share price fall further than those which choose book-building , reckons Morgan Stanley ( though firms that seek underwriting may be in worse shape anyway ) . |
| 11 | These outer and inner zones yield the taille , a juice which becomes increasingly weaker in acidity and sugar , although some minerals may be in greater abundance . |
| 12 | I share my hon Friend 's appreciation of the value and importance of the large reforms proposed in the Bill of 1939 , and when I decided , as I announced on 23rd March , to appoint an Advisory Council to assist in the preparation of a programme of reforms , I certainly had it in mind that many of the proposals in that Bill — improved it may be by further consideration and fresh ideas — might find a place in such a programme . |