Example sentences of "may be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 2 | An undeniable attraction of an auction is the possibility that some undervalued item may be for sale . |
| 3 | From personal experience , the greater hazard may be for the bride . |
| 4 | The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find — dismaying though that may be for party propagandists . |
| 5 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 6 | So — hard as it may be for some people to believe — we disinfected the whole place , sloshing the stuff everywhere . |
| 7 | Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property . |
| 8 | Viscerally , political leaders in all parties recognise that Germany is moving towards reunification , however uncomfortable that prospect may be for one of Germany 's wartime adversaries . |
| 9 | As York finds , workers prefer not to involve their clients in short-term task processes , but this may be for a multitude of reasons other than that of effectiveness : lack of time ( client participation is generally time consuming ) , agency policy and pressure ( paternalism ) , professional socialization and norms , and so on . |
| 10 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 11 | Nor is it the knowledge that Foxton , a haunt of foxes even in Saxon times , is a meeting place among others of one of the great Leicestershire Hunts , the Fernie , however important a cause that may be for assemblies of motorists in the county . |
| 12 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 13 | The innovation may be for a building or construction project which was completed between 1 January 1987 and 12 October 1990 . |
| 14 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 15 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 16 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |
| 17 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 18 | It may be for a perfectly simple reason , for example a partner may have found a job which entails moving out of the area . |
| 19 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 20 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |
| 21 | Opportunities for communication may have been reduced ; the concentration needed to listen attentively may be for shorter periods ; the whole process of comprehension and response may have slowed down . |
| 22 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 23 | NEDs may not be independent at all , as their appointment may be for some personal reason or because of existing business connections . |
| 24 | Satisfactory though casing may be for books which a careless age does not expect to be long-lived , it can not compare in craftsmanship and durability with the old method properly practised . |
| 25 | Another example , using the technique of redefining the problem and using the above situation , may be for the counsellor to suggest that the intention of the father 's behaviour was to place the daughter in an untenable position so as to break up her marriage . |
| 26 | Some groups may be for information giving . |
| 27 | This may be for the very simple reason that , just now , nobody envisages a better future ’ . |
| 28 | It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own . |
| 29 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 30 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |