Example sentences of "may be many " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you know , there may be many other reasons why it is important for him to get to the top so quickly . |
| 2 | There is no reason to suppose that such effects are confined to the victims of rape as traditionally defined : although sexual assaults vary in their degree , there may be many other forms of sexual assault which are serious enough to create such profound physical and psychological after-effects . |
| 3 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 4 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 5 | I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation . |
| 6 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 7 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 8 | And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ . |
| 9 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 10 | There may be many planetariums in the world but the London Planetarium is still unique . |
| 11 | Of course , it is not always easy to tell-why a baby is crying — there may be many different causes . |
| 12 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 13 | If , for example , the shot is of an expanse of countryside , the camera may be many hundreds of yards away from the main feature , say a group of trees . |
| 14 | There may be many factors to take into account , but usually the overriding consideration is monetary . |
| 15 | I believe that there may be many true children of the Kingdom outside of the institutional churches . |
| 16 | Through such aggregation , logical documents can be defined which are a synthesis of what may be many diverse physical documents . |
| 17 | Depending on the geology , the tectonics and thus the topography of the earth 's surface beneath it , it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow . |
| 18 | For a particular system there may be many different but equally valid ways of separating tasks into sub-tasks depending on the relative emphasis on training , interface design and other system design aspects . |
| 19 | Now comes the hard part of scrapping those that are worthless , and that may be many or all ! |
| 20 | There may be many councillors , therefore , who suffer substantial though undefinable loss of job opportunities through their council membership . |
| 21 | Similarly , there are certain words between which human listeners only hear one difference ( e.g. ’ cap ’ and ’ cab ’ ) , yet there may be many differences between their waveforms . |
| 22 | Similarly with public goods : there may be many potential suppliers of television broadcasts , but funding them presents a problem . |
| 23 | That is underlined by the absurdity which would result from a literal construction of the word ‘ cost ’ in the case of a loss-making concern such as British Rail or a heavily endowed institution , where the employee 's benefit would have to be valued at a figure in excess — indeed , it may be many times in excess — of the market price of the service provided . |
| 24 | As with design , there may be many ways of reaching the centre of the maze ; all of these will be right but some will be more efficient than others . |
| 25 | EBG would then suggest that there may be many bird species with these characteristics , and that they all have such a diet . |
| 26 | Although this allows fast retrieval of records , it can lead to very low packing density of data because there may be many additions in one area and few in others . |
| 27 | In bibliographic applications the number of possible attributes may be many thousands . |
| 28 | We have seen that there may be many punishment strategies , and relative to anyone of them there may be a very large set of sustainable price-output configurations . |
| 29 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 30 | Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties . |