Example sentences of "[det] may be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of that may be true of various couplets of Hebrew poetry , but it is quite other than what is being urged in this paper . |
| 2 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 3 | In modern societies written records are kept by all kinds of agencies , and some may be available to social researchers . |
| 4 | While this may be suitable for certain types of business customer and private individuals transferring money into other bank accounts or investments , it is clearly unsuited to small purchases . |
| 5 | This may be present in natural sources such as mine water but may also come from atmospheric pollution , from flocculation with alum , and from reuse of water . |
| 6 | This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation . |
| 7 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 8 | This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes . |
| 9 | This may be due to competing demands for ( limited ) attention . |
| 10 | This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements . |
| 11 | In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) . |
| 12 | Susan , Carol and Joan use the basilectal [ i ] / [ ] , while Stephen uses [ e : ] / [ o : ] — though this may be due to Eastern Caribbean ( St Vincentian ) influence . |
| 13 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 14 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 15 | This may be due to inadequate learning but recent research suggests there is a severe disjunction between what is learned in formal science lessons and what is used in more social and affective situations . |
| 16 | This may be due to different mutations within the APC gene causing variations from a total absence of gene product through to protein only partially reduced in function . |
| 17 | There is no requirement to identify the other person but this may be advantageous in certain circumstances , e.g. when suspected that a defence may be used that there was no other person . |
| 18 | This may be hard for western activists to take , but it is our highest purpose : to know God and to enjoy him forever . |
| 19 | These may be available through local outlets . |
| 20 | Some of these may be available in local libraries : |