Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these patients are loath to consider an ileostomy at the moment but fully accept that pouch excision may eventually be necessary . |
| 2 | If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them . |
| 3 | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office . |
| 4 | We may eventually be able to check whether the verbal arguments for the Darwinian evolution of language can be simulated on a computer . |
| 5 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 6 | We may eventually be able to scan the existing card catalogue and generate full records for older stock , but this is a long-term possibility . |
| 7 | If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent . |
| 8 | In resolving the many dilemmas of structure , solutions may only be temporary . |
| 9 | Angioplasty as a primary procedure has very limited application , and it may only be appropriate where the patient sustains an acute coronary occlusion when in close proximity to a centre with highly experienced and immediately available angioplasty expertise . |
| 10 | He may only be 5 ft 4 ins but he is a giant among small players . ’ |
| 11 | These may only be printable ASCII characters , including space and tab . |
| 12 | These may only be printable ASCII characters , including space . |
| 13 | In other cases some centres may only be involved in the development or delivery of part of a course . |
| 14 | This may only be wishful thinking , but it is worth thinking . |
| 15 | The hyper-bases so developed may only be usable in their home environment whereas a generalized data-base implementation would provide the basis for the use of the same information for many other purposes [ 1 ] . |
| 16 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 17 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 18 | There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you : |
| 19 | In practical terms this is translated into the maxim ‘ get it in the bucket ’ , a rule of particular importance in ‘ one-off ’ rather than continuing pollutions , since there may only be one chance to sample . |
| 20 | But what I 'm saying is that there may only be one proof sense is what we as individuals derive from that proof . |
| 21 | Its significance and the justification of its $1.1 million price ( £687,500 ) is understood by the fact that there may only be two more skyscraper paintings still privately held . |
| 22 | Even where there may only be two or three partners , the case for incorporating a power of expulsion in the partnership agreement is strong . |
| 23 | Test kits have a limited shelf life which may only be twelve months in some cases . |
| 24 | The site may only be viable if adjoining land is included and in fact the planning authority may insist that only a comprehensive planning application will be considered . |
| 25 | The answer is yes , although the risk may only be minimal in the case of minor projects associated with dwelling houses . |
| 26 | In this connection the court will , it is thought , be prepared to recognise the unavailability of cover beyond certain limits and that such top-up cover as may be arranged may only be available on an aggregate , as opposed to an " each and every claim " , basis ; ( 5 ) any limitation must be brought to the attention of the client and should be confirmed by the client in writing . |
| 27 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 28 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 29 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 30 | Screening may not be necessary annually , but at least one colonoscopy to the caecum should be performed as polyps may only be present more proximally . |