Example sentences of "may be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be complaints and accusations of neglect to be endured at first , but it is stimulating for the old person to have new company and most important for you , the carer , to maintain some friends and some life outside the home , both for present needs and for the future when you will be alone . |
| 2 | Common costing books : in some industries where there may be variation in the form of the finished product because of variation in the buyer 's specifications ( for example , industrial engines , building services ) a book may be circulated by a trade association which shows how the overall cost of the specific product variant can be calculated . |
| 3 | I know there may be variation in degree as it were , according to which particular aspect of infrastructure you 're looking at . |
| 4 | ( I grant that the difference is not absolute , and there may be elements of the affective and the intuitive in the pursuit of any intellectual discipline , but they are likely to be marginal . ) |
| 5 | Sporting activities which utilise the landscape are many and varied and may be elements of both recreation and tourism . |
| 6 | The real er difficulty is that we at this stage do n't actually know what 's going to be in the local plan and we believe and this is what erm Mid Sussex District Council are suggesting , is that it will be an amalgamation of the current separate local plans which cover their area , but there may well be some changes erm and until we see the thing as a whole we do n't know what it will say , moreover erm there may be elements outside the East Grinstead housing and business allocation which erm from another point of view might lead to a withholding of the statement of conformity . |
| 7 | But even here there may be elements of uncertainty . |
| 8 | There may be difficulty obtaining a policy over the age of 75 . |
| 9 | Secondly , there may be difficulty in proving that the buyer orally agreed to the exclusion . |
| 10 | Unless that partner was dependent on the person who has died , there may be difficulty in establishing a claim . |
| 11 | Part of the variation across time may be error . |
| 12 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 13 | They must think , one day they may be parents . |
| 14 | Campbell pointed out that certain factors may influence noncompliance with accepted techniques , e.g. hand paper towels may lead to skin irritation and in turn to skin abrasion and infection ; hot air dryers are noisy , slow and also may cause irritation ; soap may be irritant and therefore not used ; and sinks may be inaccessible . |
| 15 | This may be invention , for the propaganda value of possessing a saint courted thus by a king renowned for his piety is obvious ; but if not , and taken together with the Encomiast 's statement that Cnut visited St Omer while on pilgrimage to Rome , a journey in which he embarked from somewhere near Canterbury ( maybe Sandwich ) and sailed to Flanders seems a distinct possibility . |
| 16 | There may be perspiration with it . |
| 17 | R.4 provides that only solicitors with practising certificates and RFLs may be directors of a recognised body , and that at all times at least once of the directors shall be a solicitor . |
| 18 | Father Barnes will know whether it belongs to the church and with luck there may be prints . |
| 19 | So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion . |
| 20 | Mt Hor may be Jebel Maderia , north-east of Kadesh , on the north-west border of Edom . |
| 21 | Some may be notes and coin but the vast bulk will come from people writing cheques drawn on bank accounts . |
| 22 | There may be video materials on your shelves showing people at work which you could use to extend practice of this kind . |
| 23 | If the matter is one the direct outcome of which may be trial of the applicant and his possible punishment for an alleged offence by a court claiming jurisdiction to do so , the matter is criminal . |
| 24 | To some there may be occasion to place a moral principle above a legal one . |
| 25 | If a character points out that there may be Chaos or Evil behind the doors ( or , even better , asserts confidently that there is ) , and asks Thadeus to help , this adds a +10 bonus to the Fel test to be made . |
| 26 | If aggression is too much inhibited and inner-directed , the result may be immobilization and the incapacity to engage in any form of self-assertion . |
| 27 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 28 | Two business people may be chums . |
| 29 | This may be true , or to put it another way , this may be trew . |
| 30 | Schoolchildren may be maypole dancing or in the procession in fancy dress , local groups and societies enter floats , others may be involved in the fund-raising events that take place throughout the year or senior citizens may be invited to the ‘ old folks tea and treat ’ ( which takes place on the Monday ) , organised by the maypole committee and an important part of the May weekend . |