Example sentences of "may be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think about the possibilities , think about the consequences , it may not be you , it may be an innocent life . |
| 2 | They argue that it is easy for someone to appear to be above the age of 17 and say laws should be introduced that place less onus on the newsagent , who may be an innocent victim . |
| 3 | However , with the UK economy teetering on the edge of recession , the mere provision of reclaimed land , infrastructure and renovated buildings — the core of MDC 's economic activities — may be an inadequate investment incentive . |
| 4 | Where the results of some parts of the total business are improving and others are declining , the total figure may be an inadequate reflection of what is actually happening . |
| 5 | The Chinese hominoid has been claimed to belong to the pongine clade , but the characters are of doubtful significance , for example the enlarged maxillary sinus , which may be an ancestral hominid character , or the size discrepancy between central and lateral incisors , which , although correct , is linked with an extremely low crowned and heavily buttressed morphology . |
| 6 | This may be an emotional experience , so trial should be on an individual basis and not within a group . |
| 7 | Alternatively , endometriosis may be an uncommon cause of infertility . |
| 8 | Timber may be an appealing material if you want a rustic look , but remember that it will need thorough treatment with a preservative to resist rot , and that , once in place , it will always be liable to algae growth in wet weather , making it potentially dangerous as it becomes slippery . |
| 9 | The pivot row is determined by the PRS rule and it may be an explicit row , in which case we pivot as usual , or an implicit row , in which case we write down the complete row using ( 7.2 ) or ( 7.3 ) and pivot using this row . |
| 10 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 11 | This may be an explicit allowance for imputed interest as a deduction from revenues in periodic income calculations to arrive at a residual income figure , or there may be no deduction for required equity yields in the income calculations at all . |
| 12 | In what may be an ironical comment , an exhibition of Swedish artist Lasse Aberg in London this month ( at House of Sweden in Hampstead Road NW1 ) is distributing buttons that say ‘ NO ! artists against everything ’ . |
| 13 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 14 | In addition , unresponsiveness of the V8 subset may be an early event since it was found in a patient at CDC stage I. The only known common factor between patients in all groups was HIV infection . |
| 15 | The IUCN fears that the demise of amphibians may be an early sign of a wider ecological threat . |
| 16 | Some scientists believe it may be an early indicator of global warming [ see ED no. 48 ] . |
| 17 | Moreover , the possibility that clinical depression may be particularly associated with impaired function of the right hemisphere ( see Chapter 12 ) means that there may be an inherent bias towards poor performance of the right hemisphere in depressed patients . |
| 18 | You may be an experienced manager seeking to update your knowledge through formal training . |
| 19 | The APB is right to draw attention to this issue , but the strategy of ‘ linkage ’ may be an untenable one . |
| 20 | This is not confined to legal problems ( although in many situations there may be an unrecognised legal problem ) but has its effects in other areas as well . |
| 21 | To ensure that teachers are teaching what they ought may be an admirable aim ; but it must not be confused with a system of testing children . |
| 22 | It sees the widow as the creator of life who has suddenly become the symbol of death , and who also , as an unsupported woman , may be an expensive burden on the rest of the ‘ tribe ’ for the remaining years of her life . |
| 23 | However , hotels may be an expensive option . |
| 24 | ‘ Football may be an expensive pastime but I do n't think that is why fans are staying away . |
| 25 | It may be an appropriate time to revisit casework theory and research in order to help us to understand and isolate the variables which are important to successful outcome for long-term case management intervention , particularly the clinical model . |
| 26 | Horizon may be an appropriate word in Texas , but it does no justice to the country beyond Plainpalais , for there the horizon includes Mont Blanc , the highest mountain in the Alps , or in Europe , for that matter . |
| 27 | This may be an appropriate method to use when long range prospective financial information is involved and the nature and timing of future cash inflows and outflows can be determined . |
| 28 | The officers will set out what they feel would be an appropriate what they feel may be an appropriate budget and we will look at those figures and we 'll decide where certain elements of expenditure should be increased and where they should be reduced . |
| 29 | That may be an arresting statement , but it is hardly an exaggerated description of what they did . |
| 30 | With non-gonococcal urethritis there may be an equal pus-cell response with the difference that there are no pathogenic organisms to be found under the microscope . |