Example sentences of "[noun] may be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The survey results , which are closely watched by Government and in the City , will raise hopes that the end of the recession may be in sight .
2 While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’
3 ‘ The whole of Stalinvast may be in chaos in the ordinary sense , but Chaos as such has nothing to do with it .
4 If you wish to take anything further , the following three contacts may be of use :
5 In other cases the plotter hardware is physically located some distance from the user ; for example , the user may be in a different building or even at a subsidiary office in another town .
6 This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses .
7 Several such cases may be in hand at any one time .
8 Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be .
9 Money may be in the form of some physical item that is actually handed from one person to another : for example , gold , silver , other coin , banknotes , or even something like cigarettes .
10 Good health resides in areas under more direct personal control , and those with time to investigate such matters as exercise and nutrition may be in a better position than a doctor to arrive at an accurate understanding .
11 This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation .
12 It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame .
13 The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale .
14 Certain institutions may be under threat ( as subsequent chapters will show ) but not in a manner inconsistent with the existing political culture .
15 Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible .
16 ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that .
17 These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis .
18 These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis .
19 The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year !
20 Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours .
21 New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book .
22 Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker .
23 Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country .
24 The discovery of this conodont-bearing animal suggests that at least some conodonts may be among the most primitive of vertebrates .
25 ‘ I think some introductions may be in order , ’ his Welsh drawl intervened , cutting through the uneasy silence .
26 This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance .
27 A more radical change may be on the way : a report by the UK Institute of Health Services Management concludes that ‘ General taxation must be reconsidered as the major funding of the National Health Service if it continues to fail to deliver adequate levels of resources ’ .
28 Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers .
29 The research aims to explore the possibilities of trip chain analysis sufficiently to establish in what ways the technique may be of value to practising transport planners .
30 Since the trust charged on the curator has failed , their entitlement may be in jeopardy .
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