Example sentences of "and may be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also includes discouraging cultural traits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society . |
| 2 | The system may be essentially pre- or post-coordinate or neither , and may be either manual or computerized . |
| 3 | Thus the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups ( DES , 1985 ) states that existing provision for under-fives ‘ is generally inadequate to meet the needs of the population as a whole , and may be particularly ill-suited to the needs of West Indian families ’ . |
| 4 | This field therefore represents keywords likely to be meaningful to pupils , based on their background work on the topic , and may be particularly important where a more flexible approach to project work is taken . |
| 5 | GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter and may be partially responsible for epilepsy . |
| 6 | Unless you 've taken good care of your windows over the years , they are probably looking a little peaky — and may be downright poorly . |
| 7 | The ham is always easier to cut when it is well chilled and may be even easier to handle if it is lightly frozen . |
| 8 | Merger is of course a possibility and may be even desirable given OSF 's financial distress . |
| 9 | Partly in the questioner 's mind , erm could be answered by reference to language problems , I mean , a technical or professional qualifications may be equivalent , and may be awfully good , but if one expert and qualified person ca n't talk the language of the country he wants to work in , that 's going to be a barrier on its own , and I reckon that is often the bigger barrier between the easy movement of qualified people from one of our countries to another , than the lack of qualifications , or disagreement about qualifications themselves . |
| 10 | The spectra of transition-metal complexes in the visible and near-UV regions have been studied in considerable detail , and may be most informative . |
| 11 | This does not gainsay the fundamental proposition that it is every citizen 's duty to retain self-control — at least to the extent of not violating other people 's interests — but it does open the way to a manslaughter verdict and to sentences which are rarely longer than eight years ' imprisonment ( less than half as long as the time served by many convicted of murder ) and may be considerably shorter . |
| 12 | Swords are often passed down from father to son , and may be extremely ancient family heirlooms that have drawn blood in thousands of battles . |
| 13 | Technological hazards are more unpredictable and may be extremely rare , so that it becomes difficult to use probability concepts to quantify risk , especially those which rely on notions of relative frequency . |
| 14 | Some petals do not fully develop and may be only partial petals , so in practice the actual number can mean pretty well anything . |
| 15 | Woollen pile rugs of this type may be woven in grades of up to 360-line , usually with a ¼″ pile ( ½ cm ) ; pure silk pieces start at 120-line and may be much finer , depending on the requirements of the design . |
| 16 | The result is only representative on those variables selected for the quota , and may be quite unrepresentative on other factors . |
| 17 | Other conditioned psychological needs can be an extension of a horse 's basic requirements , and may be quite destructive to it . |
| 18 | And since economic practice is defined by a mode of production , the character of a given economic practice will be determined by the whole of which it is an element , and may be quite unlike its counterparts in other societies . |
| 19 | But many of the layers of sediment are not at all uniform and may be relatively thin in places . |
| 20 | In many the majority may have no religion at all , and may be totally sceptical about the necessity for there to exist any such thing . |
| 21 | Those who do not reveal their cystic fibrosis are less severely affected and may be better able to disguise their disease to lay observers . |
| 22 | Denial : As with the primary illness , family members can not see their own addictive disease and may be exceedingly indignant if it is pointed out to them . |
| 23 | Conflict with authority : Family members may repeatedly try to cover up for the misdeeds of the primary sufferer and may be exceedingly angry with various authorities when they themselves are found out . |
| 24 | He is complementary to these , and may be more powerful as an explanation in some situations and less so in others . |
| 25 | And may be more related to the needs erm of of of of of other areas . |
| 26 | Gender disadvantage is of course bound up with concepts of identity and role and may be more problematic for some newly retired men who have invested much in their world of work than for those women who have centred their existence in the home . |
| 27 | They have no idea what " normal " is and therefore they invent it for themselves and may be very wide of the mark that other families set for themselves . |
| 28 | In contrast , in some species the egg shell is very thin and may be merely present as a sheath around the larva . |
| 29 | With earache children may screech out , can not keep still with the pain and may be violently excited by it . |
| 30 | Overall , it seems that activation of PKC is not sufficient to induce LTP but is a necessary factor and may be specifically involved in the conversion of STP to LTP1 ( that is in the consolidation or stabilization of LTP ) . |