Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , authorisation to give permission may well be outside their terms of reference . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because of their age and familiarity with our strengths and weaknesses their counsel may often be of greater value than any other . |
| 4 | News Corp may well be worth more in pieces than together . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The functions described within that intersection may ultimately be of any form necessary for the specification of the product being designed . |
| 9 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |
| 10 | In selected patients assays of penicillin , co-trimoxazole , flucloxacillin , ciprofloxacin , metronidazole , and rifampicin may also be of clinical value . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 14 | ‘ Greed and the marketplace may well be at the root of many of our economies . |
| 15 | By the time you read this , the last of the old American planemaking herd may well be in French hands . |
| 16 | A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN . |
| 17 | A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN . |
| 18 | Given the unexpected , hard-won success of Jesse Jackson 's 1988 Presidential campaign , the Third American Revolution may well be on its way . |
| 19 | This service may simply be as a source of information or the ergonomist can have more power in that the design decisions involving people have to be approved by him . |
| 20 | Quite apart from the political fallout , there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession . |
| 21 | While a new mortgage loan may typically be for twenty-five to thirty years , societies hold a portfolio of existing mortgages at various stages of maturity . |
| 22 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 23 | For the NHS , the main impact may well be on the labour force , as staff of all types have greater freedom to use their qualifications and experience wherever the rewards are perceived to be . |
| 24 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 25 | The Code may also be of relevance to unitisation proposals which are in competition with an offer to which the Code applies . |
| 26 | Investment in new technology has similar characteristics and the above approach may again be worth contemplating , but there are also other matters to watch for . |
| 27 | The competition may already be at it . |
| 28 | Patients fear Hartington Road Family Health Clinic may still be under threat even though councillors rejected an application to turn it into a drug detoxification centre . |
| 29 | The life of a business or operation may also be at risk for few industries have such a strong and demanding legal code where failure to comply may result in immediate closure or prosecution . |
| 30 | Otherwise , rejection may only be on the ground of infringement of ‘ sovereignty or security ’ ; neither a claim to exclusive jurisdiction by the state of destination over the subject-matter with which the document deals , nor the fact that no cause of action would exist under the law of that state is a proper ground for rejection . |