Example sentences of "may [be] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The reason is that while it may be in limited supply , it is n't unique . |
| 3 | But however effective these arguments may be in political debate , that does not make them necessarily adequate as theoretical explanations of racism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Often these regions may be in other nations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Applicants may be in full-time employment , self employment or unemployed . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | This means that Citibank can have a very good year even though many of its loans may be in serious trouble . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child . |
| 24 | The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader . |
| 25 | Consequently , even although a high proportion of particular categories of material may be in poor condition in the stacks , if not many of them are issued to readers , they may be in less danger than other items which are more frequently issued . |
| 26 | Football : Bull 's double may be in vain |
| 27 | The 11th-hour acquisition by Mrs David Thompson , wife of the owner of Cheveley Park Stud , of Roc de Prince and Party Politics , may be in vain , again on the expectation of near-perfect going . |
| 28 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 29 | Furthermore , it may be in Big 's interest to deliberately slow down the progress of an acquisition possibly to await the occurrence of certain events or to put pressure on the vendor . |
| 30 | It may be in day-to-day terms that the Head will delegate responsibility and designate a " Compact Co-ordinator " . |