Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave the area southbound or you may be under arrest . ’ |
| 2 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 3 | It is possible that there may be for instance some appalling typographical gremlin er has crept in to something so that something makes a nonsense . |
| 4 | These arguments are not self-evident and it may be worth spelling them out . |
| 5 | Many thrusters provided with boards are far too large so it may be worth while investing in a smaller pair . |
| 6 | There will inevitably be occasions — hopefully few — when your pay is incorrect or there may be times when you want to question the amount you have received . |
| 7 | The tactile consciousness too , powerful as it may be in intimate contact , can not represent our wide apprehension of the world to so marked a degree . |
| 8 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 9 | As beautiful and as wholesome as you may be on the outside , I shall reveal you for the black-hearted trickster that you are . |
| 10 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 11 | She 's worried that she may be in the early stages of mercury poisoning . |
| 12 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 13 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Desirable though they may be in special circumstances , I have always conducted a personal vendetta against glazed cabinets and patented bookcases with evil and malicious sliding and lifting glass panels . |
| 16 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |