Example sentences of "may [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the decline of public transport , it is often no longer possible for those who do not have access to personal transport ( their own or shared ) to commute daily to and from rural settlements ; these people and places may effectively be isolated . |
| 2 | The Marketing Mix may effectively be described and analysed on the basis of the Four P's . |
| 3 | Goldthorpe 's crisp conclusion is that ‘ relative mobility rates … have remained generally unaltered ; and the only trends that may arguably be discerned … are indeed ones that would point to a widening of differences in class chances . ’ |
| 4 | 3.24.85 ; Zon. 7.21.9 ) ; though this , too , may arguably be a Hellenistic intrusion into a Roman ceremonial . |
| 5 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 6 | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office . |
| 7 | If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them . |
| 8 | Cloning , parthenogenesis ( development of the embryo without sperm ) , and even the creation of cybernetic organisms may eventually be perfected . |
| 9 | And while the sea may be too dilute to make recovery of copper possible the technique may eventually be used in reclaiming copper from industrial wastewater . |
| 10 | These may eventually be harnessed as biosensor recognition components , although the structural lability of most receptors when separated from their lipid membrane environment is a serious problem . |
| 11 | ‘ Those at risk may eventually be screened ’ |
| 12 | A primary objective for ODA-funded BGS support for the Geological Survey Department is the training of junior professional and technical staff so that both posts may eventually be filled by local staff . |
| 13 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 14 | Infrequent services will be used even less , and , as levels of car ownership grow in rural areas , so demand will continue to fail until the services may eventually be withdrawn . |
| 15 | We may eventually be able to check whether the verbal arguments for the Darwinian evolution of language can be simulated on a computer . |
| 16 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 17 | Here we are concerned with the basic principles , on which all else depends and which may eventually be applied to longer movements as well as to short sections . |
| 18 | They are also required to ‘ avoid excessive Government deficits ’ , and may eventually be fined for non-compliance . |
| 19 | Their proposals have led the Hungarian Trade Minister , Peter Akos Bod , to draw uncomfortable parallels between the Community which his country may eventually be allowed to join and the Comecon which it recently left . |
| 20 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 21 | We may eventually be able to scan the existing card catalogue and generate full records for older stock , but this is a long-term possibility . |
| 22 | The views and wishes of private individuals , however comprehensible , can not be permitted to influence whatever decision may eventually be arrived at . ’ |
| 23 | If so , analysis of serum 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one may eventually be used to identify bile acid malabsorption in humans . |
| 24 | All of these patients are loath to consider an ileostomy at the moment but fully accept that pouch excision may eventually be necessary . |
| 25 | For Keynesians , persistently high unemployment rates are an indication that the labour market is not clearing , that there is chronic excess supply in the labour market , and that some action by the monetary and fiscal authorities may eventually be warranted . |
| 26 | The scheme is only operational in England but may eventually be extended to Scotland and Wales . |
| 27 | Eleven regional electricity companies have also announced their support for the scheme , which may eventually be part funded by small surcharges on customers ' bills . |
| 28 | It may loosely be judged to refer to at least some of the works of literature , art , philosophy , history and biography . |
| 29 | Once again , one could elaborate this basic picture , which may loosely be described as one of ‘ mutual paranoia ’ . |
| 30 | Pressman and Wildavsky have made a tentative attempt to draw attention to what may loosely be described as the mathematics of implementations the way in which the mere quantity of agreements necessary may , even when all parties are committed to a policy , undermine or delay effective action . |