Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 2 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 3 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 4 | At a certain point you may appear to be back where you were before but you can not quite be sure . |
| 5 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 6 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 7 | Claudia , you may want to be checkin' yer motor every minute or so . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , my thought for today is : " If you want to understand Greece under the Romans , read Polybius and whatever you may believe to be Posidonius ; if you want to understand Rome ruling Greece , read Plautus , Cato — and Mommsen . " |
| 9 | You may need to be referred for specialist advice and treatment . |
| 10 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 11 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 12 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 13 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 14 | Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement . |
| 15 | You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night . |
| 16 | You may have to be careful . |
| 17 | You may ask to be referred to a chiropractor by your GP , or arrange a consultation on your own initiative . |
| 18 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 19 | ‘ Dear God , we pray that as well as suffering whatever part of the general physical unpleasantness involved in the Iran-Iraq war you may judge to be rightly his , you can find a spare area in his suffering , er , anti-create , for Mr R. Khomeini , late of Tehran and Qom , to experience at least some of the , umm , despair and continual worry currently being undergone by the novelist Mr S Rushdie , of Bombay and London , heathen and smart-alec though he may well be . |
| 20 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
| 21 | For we may seem to be many here , but we are few . |
| 22 | We may have to be in touch again . |
| 23 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 24 | They may appear to be fainting , collapsing and suffering from shock , but in reality they can be none of these things . |
| 25 | They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences . |
| 26 | Consequently , the man in the Kaduna street who watches an NTV report , hears the same story over the state radio and then reads about it in three or four daily papers receives several interpretations of the same event which are very different from one another — so much so that they may appear to be reports of separate events . |
| 27 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 28 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 29 | They may prefer to be left alone and hate having to depend on others who are less capable than themselves . |
| 30 | Others may prefer to continue the addictive process rather than accept the need for personal change which they may perceive to be more painful than continuing the addiction . |