Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be in " 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 ‘ The whole of Stalinvast may be in chaos in the ordinary sense , but Chaos as such has nothing to do with it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 !
8 Since the trust charged on the curator has failed , their entitlement may be in jeopardy .
9 In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product .
10 The unity may be in data structures , power structures , or in environmental trends .
11 ( 5 ) If a condition attached to an occasional licence is contravened as regards any club , every person whose name is , at the time of the contravention , contained in the list lodged under subsection ( 3 ) ( b ) of section 103 of this Act , or as the case may be in the new list last lodged under subsection ( 5 ) or ( 5A ) of that section , in respect of that club , shall be guilty of an offence :
12 Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned .
13 In both shallow and deep water examples the origin of the overgrowth cement calcite is generally thought to be from aragonite dissolution during early diagenesis , although modifications of sea water chemistry with ocean depth and with shallow burial may be in part responsible .
14 As in the latter case , the horse may be in eager anticipation of what is to come !
15 The mouth may be in need of care if a person has suffered from one or more of the following :
16 However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer .
17 In October 1989 , the case was referred to the European Court on the Grounds that SPUC had insufficient evidence for an injunction , and that Irish law may be in breach of the Treaty of Rome .
18 The farmer 's delight may be in one or more species of livestock , in arable farming , in gardening , or in bringing all these enterprises together in a mixed farm .
19 The question as to what covenants for title should be implied in the conveyance may be in issue .
20 For these reasons , however valuable Bourdieu 's work may be in identifying the patterns and relationships or the society or mass consumption , it is limited with respect to the present project .
21 Therefore in flat keys write for the B ♭ clarinet , and in sharp keys for the A. Sometimes of course a section of a work may be in a key remote from that of the main body of the piece .
22 However plans have been approved for the residential development of the Mill Yard and it is possible that by March/April 94 work may be in progress and we may not be able to use this site .
23 The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 says that where a child has been detained in a place of safety , and the Reporter considers that the child may be in need of compulsory measures of care , he shall , wherever practicable , arrange a children 's hearing to sit not later than in the course of the first lawful day after the commencement of the child 's detention to consider the case .
24 But this will not happen without sponsors coming forward to become participants in the WISE vehicle programme Sponsorship may be in the form of :
25 I feel that some sort of ceremony of blessing of the place may be in order , now that the remains have been given a proper burial , and I have asked for his opinion .
26 This phylogeny is chosen because some evidence from the fossil record may be in agreement .
27 The distinction is an important one : books on a shelf may be in poor condition , and may indeed deteriorate in their locations ( particularly when they are made up of self-destructive acidic paper ) , but their deterioration will be very much slower than if they are transported to a reading room for consultation by a reader .
28 The significant positive correlation of β-thromboglobulin to platelet malondialdehyde formation suggests that the enhanced platelet-release reaction may be in part linked to increased platelet prostaglandin synthesis in diabetic subjects ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) , possibly leading to generation of unstable endoperoxides and thromboxanes which are powerful inducers of platelet aggregation and release reaction ( Hamberg et al , 1975 ) .
29 The service charge may be in dispute or there may be an inadvertent omission to pay on the part of the tenant .
30 This picture may be in monochrome , or it may be in colour if your machine is fitted with one of the new miniature LCD screens .
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