Example sentences of "may [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most frightening of all the symptoms of stress and anxiety that a person may experience is the panic attack . |
| 3 | This interior analogue of the exterior world is actively ‘ seen ’ ; and this we may presume is no accidental metaphor , for the dominance of visual perception in human life extends into the inner world of experiencing as a dominant mode providing a basic ‘ map ’ of an ongoing continuum . |
| 4 | ‘ A common type of case where problems of timing may arise is one in which the complaint and allegations involved in it are directly or closely associated with criminal proceedings which are pending . |
| 5 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 6 | Some topics which may arise are : the length of worms , and their lack of legs ; the many legs of a centipede ; the slowness of snails and slugs ; the woodlouse rolling into a ball ; the flight differences of butterflies , bees , ladybirds and flies . |
| 7 | Such problems of internal management as may arise are likely to come from unfamiliarity on the part of individual teachers with the changing requirements of examinations and assessment . |
| 8 | Time and time again he will charge for the snags which are in range , including some of which you may be unaware , or others you may think are out of range . |
| 9 | It was this room may think is sparse but is almost over furnished by medieval standards . |
| 10 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 11 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 12 | Some of these areas may become blurred , he feels : for example , one feature of complementary medicine that patients may prefer is simply the longer consultations that its practitioners tend to give . |
| 13 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 14 | Changes in sexual regulation we may hypothesise were more a product of changing patterns of class power and alliances , various , and changing forms of pressure , and shifting perceptions of the moral needs of classes and masses rather than the result of any firm , moralizing policy . |
| 15 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 16 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 17 | ‘ She may 've been murdered , ’ said Constance . |
| 18 | It may 've been found already . ’ |
| 19 | Staff are angry at the thought the duck 's may 've been mistreated |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 21 | They may include being a wife to your husband , a mother to your children , or a daughter to your parents . |
| 22 | Students are often left to muddle along ; the help they may need is not forthcoming , even in tutorials . |
| 23 | Sometimes one fact or figure that you may need is not defined : you are expected to know it . |
| 24 | Now , perhaps , people will be more inclined to do just that , and if they are , then what we may need is a trade union link review group mark two . |
| 25 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 26 | The person holding the wing-tip should always run the down wind wing-tip so that any pull that he may exert is against the weathercocking swing into the wind . |
| 27 | Some patients , perhaps especially those who express anxiety about the risk of fire or who are known to have experienced a fire , may welcome being told about the fire precautions in the ward . |
| 28 | The concrete form in which the host may benefit is , as noted in the previous chapter , the creation of linkages . |
| 29 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 30 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |