Example sentences of "may [be] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement .
2 However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer .
3 Indeed no one yet knows what a ‘ natural ’ or ‘ equilibrium ’ level of fertility may be in such societies .
4 Steep-sided , north facing corries such as Coire Roineabhail in South Harris may be in perpetual shadow in winter and receive very little sunshine even in summer .
5 The reason is that while it may be in limited supply , it is n't unique .
6 But however effective these arguments may be in political debate , that does not make them necessarily adequate as theoretical explanations of racism .
7 Since the early 1970s a variety of child abuse inquiries and DHSS circulars have emphasized that the establishment of child abuse registers , case conferences and increased inter-professional co-ordination will enhance the central aims of attempting to predict , prevent and identify the children who may be in actual or potential danger of child abuse .
8 This may be in live coverage , for news programmes , for special programmes reporting the proceedings of Parliament or for other documentary , current affairs or educational programmes .
9 With this class of playing the listener is led to a conviction that at last there may be in due time successors to the distinguished Beaux Arts Trio indeed , in their approach and enjoyment of the music they play there are parallels .
10 No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general .
11 The essential problem of enquiring into what may be in other people 's minds has been captured by John Berger , who has made one of the most imaginative reconstructions of the European guest-workers ' social world .
12 This means that although realizations of these overlap and are sometimes identical , it does not really make sense to say that this is a merger in the language system in BV ( of course , it may be in other dialects ) .
13 Often these regions may be in other nations .
14 it has the potential to clean the subsurface more thoroughly than other schemes , because the microorganisms may be in intimate contact with all parts of the aquifer , both solid and liquid .
15 The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree .
16 I suppose that HIV and AIDS are included in that category — ’ may suffer from a medical condition and/or require medication , e.g. , heart condition , claustrophobia , epilepsy , alcoholism , may attempt suicide , may be in unlawful possession of controlled drugs , may impersonate male or female . ’
17 Applicants may be in full-time employment , self employment or unemployed .
18 The concept of parental rights may be in serious general decline — ‘ it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile its existence with the predominant emphasis which the law now places on the welfare of children ’ .
19 This means that Citibank can have a very good year even though many of its loans may be in serious trouble .
20 For the wider economic and political interests of a country may be in complete conflict with the wishes and needs of a constituent community which an anthropologist happens to have studied .
21 The tongue may be in filtrated by gummatous change , and this occasionally progresses through so-called ‘ leukoplakic ’ change to end in cancer of the tongue .
22 Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone .
23 More recent theories , which we shall examine later , suggest that the idea of individuals being led is too passive and that the capacity for leadership may be in all of us .
24 These problems may be sought out by a law centre with a view to running ‘ campaigns ’ to benefit all those in the local community who may be in similar difficulties .
25 Indexing journals ( often simply called indexes ) give the straightforward bibliographical details of articles in the range of journals ( which may be in hundreds ) covered by the indexing service .
26 Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’
27 In America , companies that launch underwritten secondary issues see their share price fall further than those which choose book-building , reckons Morgan Stanley ( though firms that seek underwriting may be in worse shape anyway ) .
28 The farmer 's delight may be in one or more species of livestock , in arable farming , in gardening , or in bringing all these enterprises together in a mixed farm .
29 An SSR may be in one of only two states :
30 Unwieldy it may be in certain respects , but it is surely better for a model of meaning destined to serve a descriptive as opposed to a theoretical study to err on the side of generosity of scope , rather than on the side of austerity .
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