Example sentences of "may [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be little more than a technicality because Mr Duggan added that Chelsea have submitted outline proposals to Cabra and their advisers which may resolve the outstanding issues . |
| 2 | ( Opposite , top ) Self-defence for a rhinoceros may be little more than casting a sleepily arrogant eye on the hungry lions surrounding it ; for an agitated elephant , on the other hand , it may be a vigorous charge . |
| 3 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 4 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 5 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 6 | A human life-span is but a blip on the screen of evolution , and the current sea-bird problems may be little more than that . |
| 7 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 8 | It is true that medical advice may be little more than an educated guess that proves wrong and that close supervision in a therapeutic trial may benefit the patient . |
| 9 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 10 | Added to this , the Government 's expressed aim to reduce public expenditure suggests there may be little or no overall boost to the Regional Council 's capital budget . |
| 11 | The recurrence of calculi after removal and the lack of substantial reduction in frequency of cholangitis indicates that there may be little to be gained in many of these patients by multiple manipulations of the biliary tree to achieve clearance . |
| 12 | In this case there may be little to lose by restricting earnings to £77,400 per annum . |
| 13 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 16 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 17 | I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation . |
| 18 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 19 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 20 | And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ . |
| 21 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 22 | There may be many planetariums in the world but the London Planetarium is still unique . |
| 23 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 24 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 25 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 26 | There may be many factors to take into account , but usually the overriding consideration is monetary . |
| 27 | I believe that there may be many true children of the Kingdom outside of the institutional churches . |
| 28 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 29 | Depending on the geology , the tectonics and thus the topography of the earth 's surface beneath it , it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow . |
| 30 | 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 . |