Example sentences of "you may be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to it any points that you may be particularly anxious to get right and discuss it together . |
| 2 | Alternatively , you may be immediately recruited as an established legal assistant ( or senior legal assistant ) through the Civil Service Commission , the address of which is Alencon Link , Basingstoke , Hants , RG21 1JB . |
| 3 | You may be laboriously producing marginal improvements on your primary product . |
| 4 | That doctrine of notice has got into the Common Law in one or two places , e.g. in the law about the sale of goods in market overt , and in the law of negotiable instruments ; but , broadly speaking , whenever you have got rights which depend upon notice , you may be pretty sure that you are in the sphere of Equity . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you may be right … |
| 6 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , I think you may be partly right about that ending . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You may be just as tired as him but mentally you must get it into your brain that you are not going to stop until you drop and if your opponent knows that he might stop . ’ |
| 9 | Whose joy to find you may be just as feigned . |
| 10 | With a lover you may be tender , or outrageously jealous , and with a child you may be alternately nurturing , supportive and strict , even punitive . |
| 11 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |
| 12 | As all the therapies mentioned above are holistic in nature , you may be delightfully surprised to find that not only do you recover from whatever was ailing you but you also improve your general level of health and well-being . |
| 13 | You may be quite used to talking about yourself but you may be less used to finding connections in your experience . |
| 14 | You may be less complacent when I tell you that the friction of pulling just one wet and grit-encrusted rope through an abseil anchor can be enough to weaken thin tape to the point of sudden fracture when the next load is applied . |
| 15 | Below that level , colleagues , thirdly , and you may be less interested in this , erm , but the , because this is very much at the level of , of officers , at least from the statutory bodies . |
| 16 | While you may be perfectly willing to hand over authority this action may not always be received with enthusiasm . |
| 17 | Lastly , you may be perfectly healthy but are one of those increasing number of people who want to take responsibility for their own well-being and wish to discover more about themselves . |
| 18 | Although you may be perfectly entitled to take others to task and even issue a number of ultimatums , you ought to be more concerned with plans designed to give you the kind of personal or professional recognition you seek and deserve . |
| 19 | In some circumstances , of course , this perception is justified : if you are a boy in Tanzania selling peanuts in the street in order to survive , you may be perfectly correct in your perception that the policeman approaching you is going to blackmail you for not having a street seller 's license , rather than to assist you in making an honest living . |
| 20 | Erm but you will be in that position , you may be so dedicated about something that you want to do like I did , I thoroughly enjoyed it it 's given me a great deal of pleasure , I 've worked with about a hundred different people over the years that have been in my dance group , all ages all personalities , we 've worked with some fantastic music which er erm we 've had to interpret . |
| 21 | You may be quite used to talking about yourself but you may be less used to finding connections in your experience . |
| 22 | You may be quite right . |
| 23 | PP : You may be quite right about that , because something intensified the first night nerves , not only because of the artificiality of the occasion . |
| 24 | Do it too early and you may be dangerously slowed . |
| 25 | But if you can offer talents that are in short supply , you may be better able to extract concessions than you suppose . |
| 26 | If this is the case you may be better advised to find another agency . |
| 27 | You may be better advised to start again , possibly finding your candidates by a different method , than risk the problems of engaging an inadequate candidate and being faced with all the disruption of having to go through the whole process at a later stage anyway . |
| 28 | You may be better off going to the RSPCA , which is free |
| 29 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 30 | If you find you have to put a car on the road purely for your job 's sake , by the time you have included petrol , road tax and insurance , plus an allowance for depreciation , that you may be better off working closer to home . |