Example sentences of "it may [adv] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few years ' time , it may no longer be meaningful to do so , though it 's a safe bet that the spreadsheet will always be with us as a presentation style . |
| 2 | It may also often be a step on the way to judicial appointment in the High Court . |
| 3 | It may also occasionally be necessary , for operational reasons , to substitute an aircraft operated by another airline and we reserve the right . |
| 4 | This contribution is positive and efficient ; it may well also be profitable . |
| 5 | It may well therefore be necessary to have recourse to other defences , such as for example short time limits within which such claims have to be advanced . |
| 6 | DGX is aiming at increasing its current budget of ECU95 million by about 30% , but after negotiations with member states it may well only be in the region of 15% . |
| 7 | It may well then be valuable for the beneficiary of a trust to know that he can obtain the property intended for him if he sues and prevails in cognitio against the trustee . |
| 8 | If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause . |
| 9 | The final point to be made is that the local researcher should trust his instinct , and if something ‘ feels ’ wrong it may well actually be wrong , and with diligence can be so proved . |
| 10 | Yet even at university , it may well still be a minority of departments that expect all mathematics students to use computers as a matter of course ; indeed , some people fear that higher education will be the phase most resistant to new IT , rather than the one that provides a strong lead . |
| 11 | In exceptional cases , under the ‘ Parliament Act ’ procedure ( considered below , pp.98–9 ) , it may not even be necessary for the House of Lords to pass the Bill . |
| 12 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 13 | The draw of central London is still very considerable , and it is doubtful that the pull of an international rail terminal itself is sufficient to significantly alter patterns of business location The Rail Link would not be sufficient to achieve this change in the image of and prospects for the Lea Valley implied by the Gateways scenario : it may not even be necessary . |
| 14 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 15 | It may not just be because of the reactions girls fear from their parents , but also because of the mental block they themselves create , illustrated in this chapter by Joanne . |
| 16 | It may not yet be the FBI but , just as in the movies where the American flag stands behind the FBI chief 's desk , Mr Mullett has already propped the Union flag against the wall . |
| 17 | Although it may not yet be easy to detect the overall depletion of atmospheric ozone in the whole of the northern hemisphere , there is evidence which suggests that Europe 's ozone layer has thinned by about 3 per cent in the past 20 years , according to research published earlier in the year . |
| 18 | It 's celebrated in the schools with er , my school children always acknowledge it , so it may not actually be celebrated within the family as such , but it 's certainly acknowledged . |
| 19 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 20 | ‘ with the return of our men from the Services and the increase in the staff , necessitated by the great expansion of our new business , it may not now be so easy to keep in such intimate touch with each other . |
| 21 | At present it is also the most popular method of analysis for provenance studies in archaeology , but it may not always be so , since scientists are continually looking for new instrumental methods of obtaining a comprehensive chemical analysis of a material . |
| 22 | This is because the law accepts that it may not always be in the best interests of a patient to receive further invasive , or aggressive , treatment . |
| 23 | The significance of the decision here , given that the case concerned a child who was not terminally ill , is its recognition that it may not always be a doctor 's duty in law to preserve life , provided certain conditions are met . |
| 24 | A team has a co-ordinator ( it may not always be the same person ) who adjusts the leadership style along a spectrum , from participative to autocratic , in the light of circumstances . |
| 25 | At the local level it may not always be easy to equate a framework of locally agreed targets with the specific levels of achievement nationally . |
| 26 | Of course these headings cover more than one question and it may not always be clear to you how the interviewer is constructing the interview . |
| 27 | It may not always be possible , but consider the feasibility of holding some of the interviews at weekends or in the evenings . |
| 28 | Indeed , it may not always be easy for workers in the formal sector to tolerate the muddle and uncertainty which sometimes surrounds informal care activity . |
| 29 | It may not always be practicable to follow exactly the recommendations as written in the accident report , but that is not an acceptable reason for merely discarding them . |
| 30 | It may not always be . |