Example sentences of "may be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos . |
| 2 | In several ways , then , a catalogue may be in advance of any other publications . |
| 3 | In Moments of Reprieve he remarks : ‘ What the ‘ true ’ image of each of us may be in the end is a meaningless question . ’ |
| 4 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 5 | The savings may be in their name or the name of their husband or wife . |
| 6 | The choice of treatment may be skewed towards that which can be paid for , rather than that which may be in the best interests of or preferred by the patient . |
| 7 | The pixel data may be in 8-bit binary words , but it is common for them to be 7-bit binary words , to preserve the capability of 7-bit transmission or coded as ascii hex characters , ie. , 0–9 and a-f , thus also preserving printability . |
| 8 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 9 | The reason is that while it may be in limited supply , it is n't unique . |
| 10 | Football : Bull 's double may be in vain |
| 11 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 12 | More unpleasant side-effects , such as a stock market decline and spiralling credit card problems may be in store . |
| 13 | They 've got all this on top of them as well as , say , they may be in a dangerous area . |
| 14 | No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general . |
| 15 | During this period , domestic savings rates have fallen significantly ( with some exceptions such as Kenya and Cameroun ) and therefore the inevitable diversion of some aid finance from investment to consumption is accentuating a negative trend , however necessary it may be in years of famine and drought . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , they have to be embraced as a first step in understanding the limits to where Africa may be in another twenty-five or even fifty years . |
| 17 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
| 18 | THE end may be in sight for the annual Territorial Championship , whose post-Christmas slot is the least acceptable in the women 's fixture list . |
| 19 | Some measures may be in train before the white paper is published . |
| 20 | Sludgeful though they may be in pieces like The Space … ( complete with pseudo-planetarium backdrop ) , and while Warm Wet Circles keeps receding and then returning like some particularly tiresome romantic symphony , Marillion sometimes achieve genuine vastness . |
| 21 | There is no need to pay in advance for the work even if you are asked to do so ; you may be in an awkward position if the firm ceases to trade without having completed the job . |
| 22 | Nuclear power may be in eclipse , but it is hard to believe that it — and the fast reactor — will not return to favour as carbon dioxide increases and the greenhouse effect 's regime becomes more severe . |
| 23 | If you purchase Mozzarella at the supermarket , it may be in brine or be ready grated ; it is difficult to grate but melts more evenly if you make the effort . |
| 24 | In the area at the front of the skull are connecting sacs which enable the dolphin to cut off one or all of the four high-frequency signals which may be in operation . |
| 25 | So , too , the owner of land may be out of possession , and another without right may be in possession . |
| 26 | The maintenance ordered may be in the form of a lump sum , by way of periodical payments of income , or by transfer or settlement of specific property , or the variation of a settlement . |
| 27 | Parsnips , leeks , broccoli and Brussels sprouts are all slow growers , and may be in the ground for ten months to a year . |
| 28 | The grain may be in a pocket , hidden inside a box , or out of sight above the horse on a bird table . |
| 29 | I have begun to Fence which is a man 's game and I am to have my uncle Sette 's foil when next we go to England which may be in the summer . |
| 30 | The 11th-hour acquisition by Mrs David Thompson , wife of the owner of Cheveley Park Stud , of Roc de Prince and Party Politics , may be in vain , again on the expectation of near-perfect going . |