Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasant period is ahead of you , as opportunities for socialising with others of your kind may be at their peak . |
| 2 | The very limited space between vertical fuel surfaces , little over one metre , severely limits the trajectory of the fire fighting jets and the majority of stock may be at a height beyond their effective throw . |
| 3 | These results suggest that the children of fathers who had been monitored for exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation in the nuclear industry may be at increased risk of developing leukaemia before their fifth birthday . |
| 4 | On the street , the roof of your car may be at just the right height for you to rest your elbows as you take the shot , and there are all sorts of other items of street furniture such as lamp-posts which can serve as props . |
| 5 | These findings suggest that a cohort effect may be at least in part responsible for the pattern described in recent surveys of increasing prevalence of H pylori antibodies with age . |
| 6 | Until now the only sure solution has been to grow peaches under glass , but help may be at hand . |
| 7 | Help may be at hand , tough , in the shape of a small development team called Direct Designs . |
| 8 | Well , help may be at hand from two fronts . |
| 9 | If you 're fed up with your teenage children getting under your feet in the school holidays , help may be at hand . |
| 10 | So , er , help may be at hand in the future . |
| 11 | But help may be at hand in the form of Holly , a dalmatian which is the middle of a phantom pregnancy . |
| 12 | A BREAKTHROUGH may be at hand in combating one of the most perplexing diseases of adolescence , juvenile diabetes . |
| 13 | Each burrow may be at a different stage . |
| 14 | Where the purchase price is particularly low , the purchaser may be at risk if the acquisition from the vendor is considered to be a transaction at an under value within the meaning of the Insolvency Act ( IA ) 1986 , s238 . |
| 15 | The Zimbabwean national team may be at the foot of the world cup table , but youth cricket is coming on apace . |
| 16 | Although you can not be forced to accept a variation in the agreement , your job may be at risk if you stand on your rights . |
| 17 | If you are away from work for a lengthy period , or for short spells at frequent intervals , your job may be at risk . |
| 18 | I suspect internal publicity may be at fault again or , perhaps , commercial sensitivity . |
| 19 | Thus an inadequately-clothed walker or climber may be at risk if exposed to winds to 2–3 m per second , and only marginally more at risk in winds three or four times as strong . |
| 20 | The point is that many of these specific areas of functional excellence are not independent of each other and improvements in one area may be at the cost of worsening in another . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the better the change-manager understands each main party 's schema , each party 's perception of what is risky for it and each party 's ability to exercise power to disrupt , the better will he or she be able to develop an appropriate change strategy and recognize where the strategy may be at risk as events unfold . |
| 22 | There are sometimes very good reasons why a woman needs strong pain relief : the baby may be at risk , or there may be obstetric reasons . |
| 23 | Furthermore , a constant emphasis on development in old age may be at variance with both our intellectual and our emotional response to decay and death . |
| 24 | ( 6 ) Subject as mentioned below , the tender may be at a fixed price ( tenders in excess of the number of shares sought being scaled down pro rata ) , or a maximum price ( if the offer is over-subscribed , the striking price will be the lowest price at which the number of shares sought is met , with everyone tendering at or below the striking price receiving that price and if the offer is over-subscribed at the striking price acceptances will be scaled down pro rata or balloted ) . |
| 25 | Some relief may be at hand . |
| 26 | A song may be at number one , but if it does n't ‘ feel ’ right for Radio 1 , it wo n't be playlisted . |
| 27 | ‘ If we can find L.L. , the mystery may be at an end , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The lives of charity workers in sensitive parts of the world may be at risk because of electronic snooping by the British government . |
| 29 | The overall effect on sensitivity may actually be negative because the focusing of attention on redundant information may be at the cost of attention to peripheral information which might have otherwise been useful . |
| 30 | But though the camera may be at gut level , a cerebral decision has placed it there , and it is characteristic of Greenaway that he should stylise a major element of his film in this way . |