Example sentences of "may be [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany is the country with the largest number of digital subscribers ( around 400,000 ) , and there are signs that the spill-over from their conversations may be confusing other electrical equipment , from CD players to computers . |
| 2 | Any definition which helps to recognise that there may be substantial overlapping of legal and social issues , and that neither can be adequately dealt with in isolation is to be commended . |
| 3 | Second , there may be various political reasons for including these areas in a comprehensive analysis for accounting purposes . |
| 4 | Behaviour which lies outside ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and to which in addition there may be strong personal disinclination : e.g. homosexuality as regarded in enlightened circles . |
| 5 | After all , logic inheres in people as well as subjects , and there may be good individual reasons for putting together what looks like an unlikely package . |
| 6 | As we shall see , there may be good economic reasons to relate tax to property values , but this mismatch was perceived as unfair . |
| 7 | A contract audit is usually performed by a multi-disciplinary team embracing construction professionals and auditors ; the latter may be specialist internal auditors or a firm of external auditors . |
| 8 | There may be certain special conditions that are unacceptable . |
| 9 | Have we the capacity to remain together even though there may be real theological differences among us ? |
| 10 | There may be real practical advantages in having a central source of expertise ; such a source is more likely to send documents in a form , and with accompanying material , required by the state of destination or specified in the applicable bilateral or multilateral convention . |
| 11 | In other words there may be two separate orthographic sub-systems : an input lexicon ( used in reading ) and an output lexicon ( used in writing and spelling ) . |
| 12 | On the first tentacle pore on the arm there may be two large flat leaf shaped tentacle scales . |
| 13 | Thus , with the application of NMDA there may be two opposing processes at work , one promoting and the other suppressing the induction of LTP . |
| 14 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 15 | There is no reason to suppose that such effects are confined to the victims of rape as traditionally defined : although sexual assaults vary in their degree , there may be many other forms of sexual assault which are serious enough to create such profound physical and psychological after-effects . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know , Sir John , but there may be many logical explanations . |
| 17 | There may be many mental barriers to a foreign buyer placing an order with an overseas salesperson , and patience will be required to break down these barriers . |
| 18 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 19 | For a particular system there may be many different but equally valid ways of separating tasks into sub-tasks depending on the relative emphasis on training , interface design and other system design aspects . |
| 20 | There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured . |
| 21 | I believe that there may be many true children of the Kingdom outside of the institutional churches . |
| 22 | Similarly with public goods : there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts , but funding them presents a problem . |
| 23 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 24 | There may be other associative effects , however , and these allow the possibility that a change of context might reduce the likelihood of the CR . |
| 25 | This has several drawbacks , including the fact that even when all the weak stems of the words in a search co-occur , they may do so in only a very few records , and there may be other relevant records retrievable by adding one or more strong stems . |
| 26 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 27 | Of course , people do not work simply for economic rewards , and there may be other social and psychological losses on retirement ( though equally there may be gains ) . |
| 28 | In addition to broadcasts of services there may be other musical events in which to involve the local or regional media . |
| 29 | There may be other local groups who can be contacted through lists kept at public libraries , or Citizen Advice Bureaux . |
| 30 | Schumpeter immediately qualifies this by observing that free competition among would-be leaders for the vote of the electorate is the democratic method of exercising this choice , though of course there may be other non-democratic ways of accepting or refusing . |