Example sentences of "[noun] may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 2 | However , as explained at page 32 below , dealings on exchanges which are not recognised investment exchanges ( RIEs ) or designated investment exchanges ( DIEs ) may in fact be treated as " off-exchange " for the purposes of the COB Rules ; moreover , qualifying futures contracts may still be within the money market exemption ( see page 24 below ) provided that they are not bought or sold , or expressed to be as bought or sold , on an RIE . |
| 3 | Voluntary and private services and clubs may also be of use . |
| 4 | Further , authorisation to give permission may well be outside their terms of reference . |
| 5 | The text may either be in a single font or a mixture of fonts ( e.g. Courier , Roman , Helvetica , Bold , Italic etc. ) and different font sizes . |
| 6 | Because of their age and familiarity with our strengths and weaknesses their counsel may often be of greater value than any other . |
| 7 | However , more agencies and media independents may also be on the list . |
| 8 | News Corp may well be worth more in pieces than together . |
| 9 | The Poet will protect the Friend 's heart ‘ As tender nurse her babe from faring ill ’ , but after his death then the Friend 's heart may also be in jeopardy : ‘ Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain ; /Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again . ’ |
| 10 | You learn to feel as they do and begin to see that words may often be in the way of understanding . |
| 11 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 12 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 13 | If parents do n't appear until boiling point is reached then relationships may well be beyond repair . |
| 14 | Individual goals may well be in conflict with organisational goals even where there is a strong commitment to one goal by the organisation . |
| 15 | As I represent 25% of the total population of women presidents to date , if my predecessors did not share my feelings a 25% opinion still deserves to be heard , and I believe that some of my successors may well be of the same mind as I am . |
| 16 | Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight . |
| 17 | The functions described within that intersection may ultimately be of any form necessary for the specification of the product being designed . |
| 18 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |
| 19 | Visits may well be in private , except if a specific procedure is undertaken — eg , taking blood for identification purposes , which needs to be witnessed . |
| 20 | Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison . |
| 21 | Peasants in grain-short areas may well be at loggerheads with those in grain-surplus areas . |
| 22 | In selected patients assays of penicillin , co-trimoxazole , flucloxacillin , ciprofloxacin , metronidazole , and rifampicin may also be of clinical value . |
| 23 | More disaggregated spatial data is not yet available though earlier studies ( e.g. Padoa-Schioppa 1987 ) suggest that the range of disparity may well be of similar if not greater orders of magnitude . |
| 24 | Costs may now be under control , after 750 redundancies and the Washington office closed along with cuts in New York and London . |
| 25 | It may , for example , happen that social group A uses only two variants of a variable , whereas social group B uses three or four , and this type of difference may well be of just as much interest as an absolute difference in phonetic realization . |
| 26 | redeploying some of their skills — over and above applying them in work with failing , disheartened or work-refusing children — for working with fellow professionals whose expectations may likewise be in conflict with those of the would-be supporter , just as those of work-refusing children tend to be in conflict with those of their teachers . |
| 27 | Kin may still be of importance when it comes to seeking work or accommodation . |
| 28 | Even at the most practical , simple level , those concerns and aspects of their lives ‘ which are not highly valued by external observers may well be amongst the most significant . ’ |
| 29 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 30 | ‘ Greed and the marketplace may well be at the root of many of our economies . |