Example sentences of "may be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As domatia are found on crops like coffee , the phenomenon may be of agricultural significance . |
| 32 | However , brochures may be of varying kinds and history found within them in a variety of guises . |
| 33 | That 's tru that 's the only part may be of traditional sales that you |
| 34 | Some of these may be of long standing , an example being improving the standard of fire precautions in places of public resort . |
| 35 | However , it should be stressed that diagnosis is only one of the aims of assessment and diagnosis on its own may be of limited value in developing strategies for intervention ( Crystal 1984 ) . |
| 36 | When this is not the case , as with non-Western cultures ( and as it might be with deaf people ) , then the theories produced may be of limited value . |
| 37 | The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form . |
| 38 | Work itself may be a pleasure and the monetary reward may be of limited importance after a minimum income is gained . |
| 39 | Firstly , clients suffering from senile dementia , and their carers , are deliberately excluded from investigation , the argument being that ‘ Issues of choice and participation may be of limited relevance to elderly people with mental impairment ’ . |
| 40 | The main exclusions of the policy still operate and such a clause may be of limited use , but its existence is worth investigating . |
| 41 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 42 | And these developments may be of regional or national importance and they 're usually footloose and and clearly would have very significant employment benefits for the local population . |
| 43 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 44 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 45 | What seems commonplace today may be of great interest to the next generation . |
| 46 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 47 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 48 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 49 | An arguably more compelling situation where a Commissioner may be of great use is in the area of unfair dismissal actions before an Industrial Tribunal . |
| 50 | The conditioning of muscles is , therefore , of importance to everyone but may be of additional importance to those who are interested in modifying their body shape through exercise . |
| 51 | These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis . |
| 52 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 53 | As luminal SCFA maintain normal colonic absorption in acute diarrhoea , the decrease seen in faecal SCFA output may be of clinical significance . |
| 54 | Therefore , agents capable of reducing hypergastrinaemia may be of potential value in preventing the trophic effects of hypergastrinaemia on the gastric mucosa . |
| 55 | We suggest that anti-lactoferrin may be of pathogenetic significance by counteracting the antiphlogistic properties of lactoferrin at mucosal surfaces , thereby aggravating and/or sustaining mucosal inflammation initiated by other factors . |
| 56 | Although the educational statistics available may be of questionable accuracy , particularly for the war-torn south , they do indicate patterns of difference . |
| 57 | The other side of the reactivity coin is that change induced in respondents by evaluation may be of positive benefit . |
| 58 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 59 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 60 | A booklet which is issued by ISIS , called ‘ Questions to Ask When You Visit a School ’ , may be of immense value to you . |