Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [adv] be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of their age and familiarity with our strengths and weaknesses their counsel may often be of greater value than any other . |
| 2 | With two votes West Germans are in a different position , even though their first vote may not be of any use . |
| 3 | Although the issue may not be of great interest in urban areas , it is important in rural areas , and I wonder whether the Bill will tackle the problem of road widths and the width of vehicles travelling down narrow country lanes . |
| 4 | The functions described within that intersection may ultimately be of any form necessary for the specification of the product being designed . |
| 5 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |
| 6 | In selected patients assays of penicillin , co-trimoxazole , flucloxacillin , ciprofloxacin , metronidazole , and rifampicin may also be of clinical value . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Code may also be of relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 10 | The story which is ideal for the Sunday Telegraph may not be of very much interest to The News of the World . |
| 11 | In any case , as we shall see in Chapter 8 , strengths very greatly in excess of I per cent of the Young 's modulus may not be of much interest in practical engineering . |
| 12 | In the student example , the fact that the person is female may not be of great significance and therefore there could be an attribute ‘ sex ’ of the person entity . |
| 13 | Lactoferrin may thus be of great importance as a non-specific anti-phlogistic defence factor at the primary immunological barriers . |