Example sentences of "[pron] may [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 2 | When that aim is kept in view , it will be found that English as a subject should occupy not any place which may happen to be vacant , but the first place ; and that English as a method must have entry everywhere . |
| 3 | A further luxury Excise Duty of 10% will be assessed on specific expensive cars , which may happen to be imported cars , but simply coincidence , boats , furs and electrical goods . |
| 4 | Less costly on the nose is a letter to the ticket office in which you enclose a cheque , which may have to be blank , and an sae . |
| 5 | Each level is accompanied by a Teacher 's Book which includes , for each chapter , a description of the teaching aims of the chapter , vocabulary which may need to be pre-taught , notes on the presentation , grammar and exercise sections , ideas for additional activities and answers to the exercises . |
| 6 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 7 | First , I want to comment on some features of the hereditary mechanism which may prove to be characteristic of all living things , whether on this planet or elsewhere in the universe . |
| 8 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 9 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 10 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 11 | You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night . |
| 12 | You may have to be careful . |
| 13 | Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement . |
| 14 | Although there may appear to be numerous difficulties , do n't be discouraged . |
| 15 | Where there are boys alone in the front rows there may need to be parallel opportunities for girls , either by turn or by the formation of a second choir . |
| 16 | ‘ This promotes the refocusing of attention from a region where there may happen to be high quality accidental word matches to events whose word match quality may not be as great , but are the best matches in their regions . |
| 17 | They may need to be bulky and unsightly in large tanks . |
| 18 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 19 | In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored . |
| 20 | It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race . |
| 21 | It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts . |
| 22 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 23 | It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly . |
| 24 | In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 26 | He may need to be able to use apparatus , and generally speaking science teachers are accustomed to explaining necessary points about its use and keeping a close watch on safety . |
| 27 | Is collusion indeed ever really ‘ tacit ’ , or is it the case that what may appear to be tacit collusion is actually explicit collusion in which the process of agreement is simply concealed ? |
| 28 | ‘ To get anywhere in this game you 've got to be stubborn , bombastic , what may appear to be ignorant . |
| 29 | This scroll is a true record of your surname origins , even people with what may appear to be common names will find the research informative and interesting , and a talking point within family and friends . |
| 30 | Can they deal with what may appear to be sexual threats , and the reality of mixed marriage ? |