Example sentences of "[noun pl] may be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the views may be as pleasurable as that of North Oxfordshire but the history of at least part of the English landscape can be seen from all of them whether it be the story of the development of a north London suburb , seen by a student from a garret window in Stoke Newington , the growth of a medieval town viewed by a young man from the upper windows of an eighteenth-century house in the centre of Lichfield , Staffordshire , or the development of a Cambridgeshire village in front of an ageing civil servant from a study in a 1960s neo-Georgian estate house . |
| 2 | It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive . |
| 3 | Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult , if not impossible , to eliminate . |
| 4 | Strong attitudes may have formed by then and teaching of avoidance skills may be too late to immunise children effectively against the pressures to smoke . |
| 5 | Combining both cases may be also useful for checking the consistency of both orders by superimposition and comparison of them . |
| 6 | That does not mean , however , that legal challenge is unimportant as part of a broader political strategy canvassing for change , only that the indirect effects of test cases may be more significant than any direct changes in the law brought about by them . |
| 7 | Such cases may be relatively infrequent , but they remind us that the core notion of voluntary obligations is the knowing undertaking of an obligation . |
| 8 | Classifying an event is a necessary first step to understanding it , and in many cases may be entirely adequate as an explanation . |
| 9 | Even though these cases may be comparatively rare , it would still appear that such high costs present a problem needing resolution if people are to have access to justice as and when needed . |
| 10 | In relational terms the behaviours involved in these four cases may be very different even within a single social context . |
| 11 | It is often difficult to show on the model precisely how the components interact ( eg by a transfer of information or resources ) , particularly when drawing high-level models where such interactions may be extremely complex . |
| 12 | Many requests may be very involved , with a number of individual statements . |
| 13 | This is because employers may be more willing to concede worker demands and grant trade union recognition when any resultant higher labour costs can be passed on to their customers in the form of price increases . |
| 14 | Where such a sovereign state has been created by a grant of independence , the courts may be more reluctant to take back power in that they would have to recognise the political fact that the state in question is a foreign country and no longer part of the legal order of this country . |
| 15 | With regard to crimes that are known about , the police and courts may be more lenient with female offenders . |
| 16 | Your request for a statement of reasons may be either verbal or written . |
| 17 | A bold plan of this sort directs its followers into unknown country where the statistical projections may be profoundly untrustworthy . |
| 18 | ( j ) The last major disadvantage of panel interviews is that the interviewers may be more concerned with their relationship with each other than with relating to the candidate . |
| 19 | An echo technique using analysis of diastolic flow patterns may be more sensitive . |
| 20 | The most surprising feature of these lamellae is that while the molecular chains may be as long as 1000 nm , the direction of the chain axis is across the thickness of the platelet . |
| 21 | In some samples of stereoregular or symmetrical polymers , the degree of three-dimensional ordering of the chains may be sufficiently high to allow a structural analysis of the polymer to be accomplished . |
| 22 | In European countries the mains supply voltage may fluctuate considerably , often being above any rated working voltage of the CL power pack , so that actual beam voltages may be appreciably higher than those set on the instrument panel . |
| 23 | The ECG manifestations may be more prominent in a sibling or a parent and can help to make the correct diagnosis . |
| 24 | Certain of these cash flows may be highly predictable , for example the outflows associated with fixed interest debt ; others may be very difficult to predict , for example those associated with fluctuating commodity prices or those that depend on the vagaries of consumer taste and fashion . |
| 25 | Roughly midway between the equator and the poles , and in the middle of continents , the summers may be too dry for trees to grow , and the winters too cold . |
| 26 | Superfast chargers may be more expensive but they are now sophisticated , using pulse technology for balanced charging |
| 27 | The social costs of not recognizing the intensity of high demand groups may be considerably greater than any inequities that may stem from their success in demanding more than the median voter is interested in ( Wade 1979 ) . |
| 28 | Some of these groups may be relatively undifferentiated , although considerable inequalities in access to land , pasture and family labour power usually exist . |
| 29 | Nor are the inner cities the only areas suffering from economic decline and physical decay — the coalfields of County Durham and South Wales come to mind , and the problems in some of the overspill estates on the outskirts of the cities may be as great as those in the centre . |
| 30 | Lead times for some of these proposals may be quite long , and some staff may need help with the drafting of proposals . |