Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pron] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BORINGLY familiar it may be as a measure the rise in the price of cigarettes in the latest budget gives me open , honest pleasure , though its smallness causes me disappointment . |
| 2 | Well unacceptable it may be in your present state of mind , but |
| 3 | Whatever other reasons may have existed — and however unpleasant it may be to be reminded of it — this is the same reason used in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 4 | It is there , and it will not go away , however hard the authors of the Gospels have tried to disguise it — and however embarrassing it may be for later Christian tradition . |
| 5 | The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent . |
| 6 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |