Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wish to take anything further , the following three contacts may be of use : |
| 2 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 3 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 4 | Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship . |
| 5 | MC Groups may be of assistance . |
| 6 | Political parties , for example , may not present such an ‘ open face ’ to women ; their agendas may be of less interest to women or women may face more difficulties in fitting in with their timetables and organisation . |
| 7 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 8 | These hospitals and units may be of two kinds . |
| 9 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 10 | Whilst first aid remedies may be of use for each episode of acute illness , proper constitutional treatment and advice is likely to be more appropriate to help with the long term tendency to become unwell repeatedly . |
| 11 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 12 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 13 | In addition to The Handwriting of English Documents by L.C. Hector already mentioned , the following books may be of value : English Cursive Book-hands 1200–1500 by M.B. Parkes ( London 1979 ) , Elizabethan Handwriting 1500–1650 by G.E . |
| 14 | Typically , the cost of acquiring , checking , editing , and converting data may be of the order of the system hardware and software costs while the time required to assemble and check the cartographic and attribute databases may be of the order of several years . |
| 15 | Where the rocks exposed in the cliffs are incoherent , pressures produced by the waves may be of less importance and much of the erosion accomplished by the load flung against the cliffs and by the simple swilling action of the waves , which removes the finer matrix from gravel beds . |
| 16 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 17 | Lines may be curved , zig-zag or straight , for example , and blobs may be of different sizes . |
| 18 | Antibodies of IgA class directed against Saccharomyces cerviciae are common in Crohn 's disease but not in ulcerative colitis , and determination of such antibodies may be of diagnostic help . |
| 19 | These models may be of use to marketers in dealing with particular problems , such as the relative importance of advertising or price in influencing consumer purchase behaviour . |
| 20 | Elemental , annotated or operational bills may be of greater value but the most reliable system is to take off the quantities from the drawings . |
| 21 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 22 | Because of the immediate nature of such patients ' problems it is important that whatever form of help is offered should be available without too much delay , and for this reason health-centre-based therapists may be of particular value , as has been shown in the case of psychologists ( Robson et al. 1984 ) and social workers ( Shepherd et al. 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Eye pigments occurring in the ommatidial cells of some insects may be of special interest since studies of their metabolism reveal something of the mode of action of genes controlling eye colour . |
| 24 | Detrital grains may be of any size ( from clays to pebbles or larger ) and of varying shape . |
| 25 | Electrophysiological studies may be of help in cases where neither sweat test nor DNA analysis were conclusive . |
| 26 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 27 | ( The type and purpose of those structures may be of little importance . ) |
| 28 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 29 | The bill of quantities may be of limited use because many items of the work will be presented in a summarised form . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the student 's difficulties may be of another kind : that his reading ability is poor and he has trouble in comprehending the work-card , for instance . |