Example sentences of "may be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 2 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A text of the past may be of interest to a critic , a philosopher , and a historian , and each would discover his appropriate interest within it . |
| 5 | But however suspicious Mrs Thatcher may be of managed exchange rate systems , she dislikes a falling pound as much as anyone . |
| 6 | ISIS ( The Independent Schools Information Service ) may be of most use if you wish to explore this option , and they will send you detailed lists of schools in your area with contact names and addresses . |
| 7 | A booklet which is issued by ISIS , called ‘ Questions to Ask When You Visit a School ’ , may be of immense value to you . |
| 8 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 9 | It may be of vital importance to the seller to get the money instead of the land ; but he will rarely succeed in getting more than his out-of-pocket expenses . |
| 10 | Data Protection : as a service to readers , we occasionally make dispatch lists available to carefully screened companies whose products or services we feel may be of interest . |
| 11 | Such then , in extremely broad terms , is the essence of the nature-culture opposition , an opposition which , as I hope to show , provides one clue as to the perceived gender differentials in blood within Judaism and which may be of help in establishing an ( oppositional ) link between circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 12 | Plasmids are often symbionts rather than parasites : that is , they benefit rather than injure their hosts , for example by carrying with them properties such as drug resistance which may be of value to the host cell . |
| 13 | Since we also hope that this account may be of interest to those who do not know the area , it includes , especially at the beginning , some historical and other background information about Lewis and Harris , in the wider contexts of the Western Isles as a whole and of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 14 | Most of the debate on the validity and primacy of client self-determination has taken place within the casework context ( Bernstein , 1960 ; McDermott , 1975 ; Freedberg , 1989 ) where the elements of eligibility , statutory rights , social control and professional authority may be of central importance ( Rothman , 1989 ; Spicker , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | In 1771 , Miller 's successor , William Forsyth , reported to the Garden Committee that Mr Miller , an engraver , desired to view and take plants ‘ as may be of use in the work he is now engaged on ’ . |
| 16 | They distinguished between a child who has special educational needs , and a child who has special educational needs which are such that the LEA may be of the opinion that they should determine the special educational provision that should be made for him — in the words of Nicholls LJ , ‘ not special needs simpliciter , but special needs that satisfy a further condition ’ . |
| 17 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 18 | Where politics forces one identification , it also dissolves others — prior social groupings that may be of much greater age . |
| 19 | Although this book is in no way offered as a study of history or architecture , I hope that some of the information gathered may be of interest to those who love Cumbria and cherish the old buildings and traditions . |
| 20 | This may be of advantage to the developer too , attracting passers-by , even though they may initially be looking for a short cut . |
| 21 | What seems commonplace today may be of great interest to the next generation . |
| 22 | There are several other crops which may be of use to you to suit particular conditions . |
| 23 | And , of course , talk of cost must never overlook what are known as opportunity costs : time , effort , and money spent on one thing necessarily means a lost opportunity to spend them on something else , which may be of just as much value . |
| 24 | This caution is reinforced by a second reason , which in practical terms may be of paramount importance , the fear of being the object of a legal action at the suit of parents , guardians , or relatives , who might allege that the patient was neglected , and would urge that the patient 's refusal should not have been relied upon . |
| 25 | The results of our own research into the minimum cost to replace the basic contents of different types of property to a reasonable standard may be of assistance as a guide . |
| 26 | The results of our own research into the minimum cost to replace the basic contents of different types of property to a reasonable standard may be of assistance as a guide : |
| 27 | To the environmentally concerned , however , the origin and extraction method for capturing an essence may be of vital importance . |
| 28 | General measures such as the use of elastic tights and elevating the head of the bed to reduce morning postural hypotension may be of benefit . |
| 29 | This may be of considerable importance , for in the non-diabetic there are long-established relationships between lipid and lipoprotein levels and macrovascular disease ( Gordon et al , 1981 ; Miller et al , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |