Example sentences of "may be [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Furthermore , adjustment to a new role in life may be best assisted by loose-knit networks , as when a mature woman leaves the domestic sphere to become a university student , or when adjusting to her newly divorced and single status . |
| 2 | The swept vapour screen may be best employed for 3-D computer displays and component visualisation . |
| 3 | Specialist counsellors , on the other hand , have usually had advanced training in counselling , psychotherapy , or family therapy , and some may be professionally trained in other disciplines such as medicine , clinical psychology , social work , or nursing . |
| 4 | Mice may be easily killed by cervical dislocation . |
| 5 | One of the aims of the ANLT is to provide a general purpose system which may be easily adapted for new tasks . |
| 6 | Moreover , the possibility that clinical depression may be particularly associated with impaired function of the right hemisphere ( see Chapter 12 ) means that there may be an inherent bias towards poor performance of the right hemisphere in depressed patients . |
| 7 | If no very fine grains are present in the sediment the sands may be freely washed in well-agitated water to remove the salts . |
| 8 | Thus , consideration should be given to the way in which policy goals may be effectively translated into political and legal reality , based on both a realistic perception of the obstacles that have to be overcome and an accurate assessment of the contribution which lawyers and litigation may make in promoting desirable social change . |
| 9 | Some services may be effectively provided in general practice rather than hospitals . |
| 10 | An A horizon is often underlain by an Eg horizon which may be well defined in semi-natural soils . |
| 11 | Wood and other plant remains such as ropes , cloth , reeds and seeds may be well preserved in arid environments or if waterlogged . |
| 12 | THE ballad of Idwal Slabs may be well known in literary circles . |
| 13 | The main joints may be additionally secured by wooded pegs through the tenons ; look out for tell-tale discs of endgrain showing on the legs . |
| 14 | Those who champion smokers ' rights should surely recognize that non-smokers , including babies and children , may be harmfully affected by other people being free to smoke in public places . |
| 15 | It may arise simply because the risk of deterioration of a resource may be unequally shared among affected people , or because the fruits of personal sacrifices will be enjoyed by others , or discounted future benefits do not justify present sacrifices and are distributed unevenly . |
| 16 | This conclusion may be profitably shared with other members of the health-care team involved in rehabilitation . |
| 17 | They refer to airborne concentrations of materials to which the majority of people may be repeatedly exposed without adverse effects . |
| 18 | Practice does not take place in a vacuum , and may be implicitly based on contingent theories which allow few across-the-board answers or approaches . |
| 19 | Anthropologists , like Nancy Foner in Ages in Conflict , have shown how in non-Western societies this struggle for rewards and power may be openly organized through recognized age-sets . |
| 20 | A ‘ text ’ may be differently presented in different editions , with different type-face , on different sizes of paper , in one or two columns , and we still assume , from one edition to the next , that the different presentations all represent the same ‘ text ’ . |
| 21 | Biblical stories , and the narration of history in the bible , may be profoundly damaging to human relations . |
| 22 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 23 | These theories may be strongly influenced by colloquial expressions like : |
| 24 | These morphological findings suggest that the intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions involved in the local homeostasis of the gastric mucosa is decreased in patients with gastric ulcer and that this decrease may be closely related to gastric ulcer formation . |
| 25 | It would also discuss how general experience may be potentially seen as religious experience . |
| 26 | But no transgression against Hume 's stricture is involved in pointing out that people 's views about what ought to be — their moral stance and outlook — may be directly related to certain distinctive features of their lives . |
| 27 | The tourist may find guide books excellent value , but an armchair traveller may be better served in other ways . |
| 28 | The British Railways Board concludes : ’ Regeneration of the East Thames Corridor may be better promoted by other measures , eg provision of domestic rail services , improved road access , site preparation at public cost . ’ |
| 29 | The cellular machinery of the regulated pathway and associated processing enzymes may be poorly represented in colorectal cancer cells , and consequently the apparent failure to process progastrin derived peptides in these tumours is not surprising . |
| 30 | Those who are directly affected by policies , the public , may be crudely divided into unorganized and isolated public — who pay taxes , receive benefits , seek planning permission , visit doctors and so on — and the organized public , the organizations upon whom policies have an impact . |