Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] the result " in BNC.
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| 1 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 2 | Any features of a social situation which we pick out and identify as the terms of a contradiction may already be the result of a collection of further factors , some more important than others . |
| 3 | This difference is primarily an effect of the composition of the lava , but to a certain extent it may also be the result of the high proportion of phenocrysts present in the lava . |
| 4 | Part of that is due no doubt to ongoing poor relations with the United States , but part may also be the result of a collapse of cultural life in Cuba today , particularly in the visual arts . |
| 5 | Both these factors may apply , but the sequence of learning may also be the result of choices for whatever reason , which those formulating and operating the curriculum may recommend in the light of teaching experience . |
| 6 | Mustill LJ said in Parmenter that , although the two offences are seen as different by defendants and lawyers , the mens rea is the same : If the Cunningham subjective test combined with the low level of intent prescribed by Mowatt is applied to s.47 in the same way as s.20 , the moral overtones of the two offences become indistinguishable , and the differences between the two depend upon variations between the levels of physical injury which may often be the result of chance . |
| 7 | If casual consumption of cocaine is down , it may well be the result of education and treatment programmes rather than criminal enforcement . |
| 8 | They also acknowledge the possibility that high education levels may well be the result of economic affluence but they still feel that a certain minimum level of education is a necessary prerequisite to the take-off stage of industrialisation . |
| 9 | This particular category deserves closer attention , because the level of spontaneous internal development , independent of any main road(s) , may well be the result of a native tradition flourishing in the Roman period . |
| 10 | It may simply be the result of little domestic refuse being left around the farm ; cereals may not have been processed there , or , if they were , not in a place likely to have resulted in their being burnt and therefore preserved . |
| 11 | Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion . |
| 12 | This may sometimes be the result of lack of information and reluctance on the part of the carers to take measures to correct this . |
| 13 | The effect on bile secretion seen after intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y in these studies may therefore be the result of neuropeptide Y binding to receptors that are responsible for releasing cephalic phase secretion . |