Example sentences of "but it may be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be tempting to make a small charge for this but it may be even more advantageous to offer this as a free service with the profit being goodwill . |
| 2 | I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever . |
| 3 | That seems unusual , but it may be just that the home warren attracted more elil than other places . |
| 4 | For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner . |
| 5 | But it may be that even where there is evidence that the patient was mentally unfit or too young , the doctor would still avoid liability , not so much on the basis of the patient 's refusal as on the proposition of Elliott that further treatment was useless , or that of Williams that life had become a burden to the patient . |
| 6 | But it may be that more fundamental changes to the present institutional arrangements for audit will be needed before we can realistically expect auditors to be proactive in assessing and reporting on business risk . |
| 7 | On the evidence , it would seem so , but it may be that more intensive archaeological prospecting in western Crete will reveal many more Minoan sites . |
| 8 | Finally , inequality in political influence can normally be seen as deriving from either material advantage or high status , but it may be that political office may independently form the basis for gaining status and/or privileged life-chances . |
| 9 | The return to Warrington where a gasometer was destroyed three weeks ago may appear to set a curious pattern to the IRA 's logistics , but it may be that recent arrests and seizures of weapons and explosives in London in early March has inflicted a major blow to their intentions in the capital . |
| 10 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 11 | The size of this type of unemployment is obviously extremely difficult to estimate , but it may be quite substantial , particularly in those industries with powerful trade unions where employers are reluctant to lay off workers for fears of initiating an industrial dispute . |
| 12 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 13 | It may not be obvious or spectacular , or even recognized by other people , but it may be very significant The influence of one individual changes the total sum of things . |
| 14 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 15 | Association with colleagues after working hours could be taken as an indication of the priority given to company matters but it may be reluctantly undertaken . |
| 16 | Such recycled water may not be a health hazard to the human population but it may be highly detrimental to fish . |
| 17 | It is quite easy to find , close to the Beta-Gamma pair ; it is not particularly rich or condensed , but it may be only about 8200 light-years away , in which case it is the closest of all the globulars . |
| 18 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 19 | It starts with section 238 but it may be more illuminating to start here with section 240 which draws a distinction between the publication of ‘ statutory accounts , ’ ( i.e . |
| 20 | This may be fine when we can identify the output in terms of manufactured goods but it may be more difficult to measure the output of a government official . |
| 21 | I i it may not be so , but it may be so |