Example sentences of "may [adv] prove to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be advantageous to put each formula on a stability test and to leave earlier formulae on storage when later different formulae are developed ; the earlier formula may eventually prove to be more stable than later formulae . |
| 2 | For Virgo , Fate takes a hand today when a delayed or missed connection may lead to a contact that may eventually prove to be very beneficial . |
| 3 | Inter area and inter authority variation may thus prove to be great . |
| 4 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 5 | But it may still prove to be the route to more jobs |
| 6 | It may also prove to be the case that failure to recognize this obsolescence sufficiently early also prevented the development potential of records of achievement being recognized . |
| 7 | They may also prove to be useful when it comes to breeding , a point that will be covered later in the series . |
| 8 | The growth of Youth Training Schemes and other government schemes may also prove to be short-term expedients . |
| 9 | A ‘ MIRACLE ’ drug abandoned years ago because of its serious side effects may now prove to be a major advance in the treatment of arthritis . |
| 10 | There is also a Radio One show in the pipeline , so tomorrow 's event may well prove to be one of Reeves 's last nights out in his adopted home of Deptford . |
| 11 | It may well prove to be an impossible task . |
| 12 | Allocating a disproportionate amount of resource on well-studied , high profile species is certainly easy , but may well prove to be inefficient when documenting the majority of life inhabiting our planet , and the attempts at dampening the current rates of extinction . |
| 13 | The wider debate has , to some extent , tended to overshadow the resource management issue , which may be somewhat ironic as the resource management initiative , announced in 1986 , may well prove to be the most fundamental change of all . |
| 14 | The new European Company may well prove to be the Eurochicken into which EEIGs will hatch , if the Commission succeeds in its renewed efforts to overcome the various problems currently inhibiting its birth . |
| 15 | These cameras come in many variations and consideration of the risk involved may well prove to be a deciding factor . |
| 16 | Stereolab always look tonight as if they 've got a few more tricks up their sleeve than anyone else around at the moment , and in an age where recycling the past to create a spurious version of the future is the order of the day , they may well prove to be a benchmark of quality for their times . |
| 17 | What may well prove to be India 's last round-up of wild elephants was carried out by a tribe who have specialized in elephant catching and training for centuries . |
| 18 | As SEC chairman , he may well prove to be a champion not just of small companies but also of order-driven auction markets like his former employer and the New York Stock Exchange . |
| 19 | Those questions that you answered positively may well prove to be a threat to your ability to maintain a good figure and an optimum state of health . |
| 20 | For many people , singing or playing at services is perhaps their only link with the Church , and it may well prove to be a temporary one . |
| 21 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 22 | So this meeting with Pietro Miletti may well prove to be decisive . |
| 23 | The fate of Henry Scott may yet prove to be a salutary lesson to those local authorities intending to expand their programmes of publishing homosexual-related literature , nor should librarians ignore this piece of history if they display homosexual literature amongst their new acquisitions or publish a booklist of homosexual literature . |
| 24 | Finally , manipulation of this potent release mechanism for PYY may ultimately prove to be clinically useful in patients who would benefit from slower intestinal transit , including patients with short bowel syndrome or major colonic resection . |
| 25 | Polymorphisms of the genes encoding enzymes involved in the metabolism of collagen , such as the collagenases and their inhibitors , or genes controlling the transcription of collagen may ultimately prove to be more important than polymorphisms of the collagen genes themselves in determining individual susceptibility to the fibrotic effect of alcohol . |
| 26 | Rather than commit you at this stage to the costs of detailed accounting , due diligence and contract drafting , which may subsequently prove to be abortive , MAS would intend performing a short key features review devised to highlight potential deal breaking points and other inevitably contentious issues ( such as possible earn-out terms ) which will need to be resolved with the vendors prior to proceeding . |