Example sentences of "[conj] may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry Wills , the Frampton Rovers manager , gave me a ring to say that he had a proposition that may well be to Athletico 's advantage . |
| 2 | Rearrangement of the furniture within the dining hall is something that may well be worth considering . |
| 3 | It will : identify your belongings from those of other people that may also be in the removal van ; enable you and your friends , or the removal men , to put the boxes in the right rooms ( i.e. anything labelled ‘ crockery ’ in the kitchen ) , this saves sorting it out later on ; and it will enable you to lay your hands quickly on the teapot when it is all over and you are gasping for a cuppa ! |
| 4 | But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery . |
| 5 | This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more . |
| 6 | This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more . |
| 7 | Although support for his party seems to be stagnating and may even be on the decline , it still has an important following , mainly among the poorer working and artisan classes and the retired . |
| 8 | If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’ |
| 9 | It is believed intelligence services have discovered that at least two ‘ mainline bombers ’ are missing from their normal haunts and may already be on the mainland . |
| 10 | Queen Elizabeth is already the longest-serving monarch of the twentieth century , and may possibly be on the throne even longer than Victoria . |
| 11 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |