Example sentences of "may be of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With printed material the font may be unknown to the system or the copy may be of poor printed quality . |
| 2 | These defensive attitudes , based on fear , envy , resentment and self-hatred , may be of various kinds . |
| 3 | These may be of various forms . |
| 4 | The fact that one prophecy does not come true does not mean you are dealing with a false prophet : ‘ It is possible for a true prophet to prophesy from the flesh or in the excitement of a moment … . ’ says John Wimber.2 In addition , the prophecy may be of mixed value , having one part God 's truth and two parts human enthusiasm . |
| 5 | A few taper to the top , such as the example from the cemetery at Berinsfield ( Oxfordshire ) ; some tapering vessels are bound with bronze , for example that from Droxford ( Hampshire ) , others may be of mixed construction such as those from Harwell ( Oxfordshire ) . |
| 6 | In the reader example , the fact that the person is female may be of such insignificance that it is not even included as an attribute . |
| 7 | Unlike an industrial accident involving a single emission source , the pollutants contributing to an urban smog are emitted from numerous diverse sources and may be of many types . |
| 8 | It now seems that the time of injection may be of crucial importance in determining the effects of melatonin . |
| 9 | For some people it may be of crucial importance , for others the family simply is not a significant source of emotional support . |
| 10 | Second , the relationship of the ‘ persuader ’ to the patient may be of crucial importance . |
| 11 | But I do think the minister er should er b be quite clear about that point er because er it may be of crucial importance , not just to the industry , er but also to the public interest who will want to know what the position is so far as er er these matters are concerned . |
| 12 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 13 | IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 14 | Staff should be made aware that some of the most sinister fetal heart rate decelerations ( late ) are often shallow and difficult to detect ; some of the most obvious with greatest amplitude ( variable ) may be of little or no pathological importance . |
| 15 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 16 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 17 | Demographics , for instance , may be of little concern to innovators in fundamental industrial processes like steel making , although Mergenthaler 's Linotype machine became successful primarily because there were not enough skilled typesetters available to satisfy a mass market . |
| 18 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 19 | Development shoot-outs as suggested by one researcher may be a way of widening the solution arena ( Quinn , 1986 ) , but if the uncertainties are too high even this approach may be of little value . |
| 20 | Audit is an ex post event and improvements in this important function may be of little long-term value if they are not coupled with more general reforms of the accountability of government . |
| 21 | ( The type and purpose of those structures may be of little importance . ) |
| 22 | This blurring of the boundaries may be of little consequence to users of the service , but it does have implications for the type of care they receive and which agency remains financially responsible for arranging that care . |
| 23 | With the wide availability of private transport their location may be of little significance unless tile primary demand is for retirement homes , when prospective purchasers will be heavily dependent on local services . |
| 24 | This does not in itself mean that the analysis is invalid , and some of the deficiencies may be of little quantitative significance . |
| 25 | Obviously , though , if M-tense and L-tense get too far apart , M-tense may be of little use to the analysis of language . |
| 26 | Most of the debate on the validity and primacy of client self-determination has taken place within the casework context ( Bernstein , 1960 ; McDermott , 1975 ; Freedberg , 1989 ) where the elements of eligibility , statutory rights , social control and professional authority may be of central importance ( Rothman , 1989 ; Spicker , 1990 ) . |
| 27 | But however suspicious Mrs Thatcher may be of managed exchange rate systems , she dislikes a falling pound as much as anyone . |
| 28 | The only clues we have are the symptoms and signs , both past and present , and any history there may be of possible precipitating factors . |
| 29 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 30 | The products of the repression trade may be of two types : equipment for torture , execution of those which result in ‘ cruel inhuman or degrading treatment ’ such as leg irons ; or equipment which can have an every day use , such as computers and telecommunications ( this category also includes items such as tear-gas and hand guns which can be used legitimately for law-enforcement or crime prevention ) . |