Example sentences of "they may be [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 2 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 3 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 4 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 5 | They may be neurotics or malingerers or both . |