Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | If you wish to take anything further , the following three contacts may be of use : |
| 3 | Several such cases may be in hand at any one time . |
| 4 | The maps may be of surrounding areas and zoomed right up to detailed floor-plan scale . |
| 5 | Certain institutions may be under threat ( as subsequent chapters will show ) but not in a manner inconsistent with the existing political culture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |
| 8 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 9 | The discovery of this conodont-bearing animal suggests that at least some conodonts may be among the most primitive of vertebrates . |
| 10 | ‘ I think some introductions may be in order , ’ his Welsh drawl intervened , cutting through the uneasy silence . |
| 11 | Part-timers may be on lower pay rates than full-time workers . |
| 12 | And I ca n't help thinking that we might end up with a sort of repeat of the sort of situation that 's occurred at Octavius Atkinson site which is erm mentioned in the erm the paper tabled this morning , whereby er a sort of market-led approach which puts a lot of pressure on the local authorities may be at the expense of the planning-led approach to erm deciding where development should most appropriately go . |
| 13 | Apart from the inpatient waiting list initiative no extra resources were released for meeting the Charter standards , but meeting the standard for outpatient clinics may be at the expense of seeing fewer patients and a lengthening list for a first appointment . |
| 14 | Enemas and suppositories may be of use but habitual use of these can create an unhappy and strained parent-child relationship . |
| 15 | When acting for a buyer of vacant land who intends to build on it , or for a buyer of a recently erected house , a hidden danger has recently been highlighted — the possibility that the foundations may be at risk of subsidence or of sliding either through infilling of the site , or a dangerous geological stratum . |
| 16 | Some groups may be for information giving . |
| 17 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 18 | MC Groups may be of assistance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Everqueen 's policies may be at odds with those of the Phoenix King . |
| 21 | This includes the Installation , Process and Storage Directories ; the User accounts may be on any of the VAXs in the network . |
| 22 | Population screening programmes may be worth while . |
| 23 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 24 | These hospitals and units may be of two kinds . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Similar relationships may be of equal importance in the diabetic subject . |
| 28 | Secondly , in family abuse , the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse . |
| 29 | The ridden horse 's ears may be at half mast indicating that he is relaxed and listening to his rider . |
| 30 | The CRE 's findings and recommendations are expected to go to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , for approval and action if its inquiry upholds complaints that the region 's methods may be in breach of race relations and education law for failing to test in a child 's first language . |