Example sentences of "may be [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some older people may be pre-occupied with these negative aspects of their lives , where the counsellor will be dealing with a lack of personal satisfaction and fulfilment , failed relationships , unfulfilled hopes , and even perhaps with events that elicit feelings of disgrace and shame . |
| 2 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 3 | Several other abnormalities have been described which may be relevant with respect to elevated blood pressure in diabetics . |
| 4 | You may be unhappy with the work you are doing now . |
| 5 | Such developments may be compatible with an increase in the bureaucratization of the party itself , referring to the dominance of functionaries and the way they behave relative to the rank-and-file members and their elected representatives . |
| 6 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 7 | At first girls may be preoccupied with their pregnancy or baby and see education as unimportant , but seeing other girls working soon builds their motivation . |
| 8 | , Walter ( fl. 1476–1499 ) , church musician and composer , Nothing is known for certain of his family , birth , and education ; there is no compelling reason to concur with speculation that the composer may be identifiable with the boy of this name who , having been born in Salisbury around 15 August 1451 or 1452 , was elected a King 's scholar of Eton College on 8 July 1467 . |
| 9 | A technique may be consistent with a principle but ineffective for a particular group of learners . |
| 10 | Such lags may be consistent with an absence of arbitrage opportunities if they are caused by traders choosing to exploit information in the futures market , and/or a delay in the response of the calculated index ( stale prices ) . |
| 11 | For instance : i ) products may be consistent with widely accepted behaviour patterns which maintain or enhance the traits associated with self image . |
| 12 | ii ) products or services may be consistent with traits associated with compliance . |
| 13 | Their behaviour patterns may be consistent with the dominant culture or may differ from it . |
| 14 | The noted decrease in urgency after retraining may be consistent with this hypothesis . |
| 15 | Consequently at a US National Security Council meeting of 9 July 1953 , although note was taken of a report which recommended " greater independence and greater responsibility in the area by the United States vis-à-vis Britain " , it was still thought necessary to add an important rider : Capitalize on such elements of strength as remain to the British in the area by such support of United Kingdom positions as may be consistent with U.S. principles and policy objectives . |
| 16 | Let us pray today that we may be gentle with ourselves , guarding ourselves from relationships that might exploit us or be hurtful . |
| 17 | It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance . |
| 18 | Within the social services department liaison may be involved with the home care service , residential and day care establishments , wardens and sheltered housing to help maintain a client at home . |
| 19 | The ward nurses will need information from the patient and his family and from other people who may be involved with helping him in the community . |
| 20 | Your public relations work may be involved with products themselves , the company 's image or financial status . |
| 21 | Your spouse or partner or other colleagues may be involved with the same language . |
| 22 | Regrettably , not all hospital employees are in a position to forget about this inevitable outcome — in fact , their daily work may be involved with the direct handling of the dead . |
| 23 | personnel sensors are available but once again this involves expenditure which may be unnecessary with full staff involvement . |
| 24 | Some frames may be integral with the harness , and can be adjusted to suit the wearer . |
| 25 | Savile ( 1972 ) comments that arctic plants may be brittle with frost , sheathed in ice or buried in snow during the summer period of most rapid growth , and yet able to resume growth immediately and without injury as soon as warm weather returns . |
| 26 | Fathers who tell their boys that they will be engineers may be delighted with their success rate , at least initially ( many such sons subsequently flood into business schools to get out of engineering ) . |
| 27 | As your readers read they may be delighted with what you are doing , but when they reach the end of the book they will be less pleased with the whole rather than they might have been . |
| 28 | Similarly , a very restricted comparison — perhaps of only two or three cases — permits a more intensive analysis than may be possible with multi-country studies and if the cases are dealt with in a consistent and systematic way minimises ‘ the danger of lapsing into either vacuous description or superficial comparison ’ ( Shalev , 1980a , p. 40 ) . |
| 29 | These characters may be homologous with those of the orang-utan , or with those of the African apes and humans , but not with both as there is now evidence of independent derivation of orang postcranial characters from the other great apes . |
| 30 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |