Example sentences of "[noun prp] may [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 2 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 3 | The market in the countries of the CU may come to be dominated by producers in one of them . |
| 4 | Clearly , then , some problems with UDC may need to be investigated , including the following : |
| 5 | Indeed , HDTV may prove to be a powerful ally for multimedia . |
| 6 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 7 | Action : A DC may need to be assessed by a user outside the specified user 's hierarchy |
| 8 | It is recommended that as much information as possible be supplied since the DC may have to be assessed by other users , and will certainly be examined by the QA user who will eventually decide upon the fitness for purpose of any modules referenced by the DC . |
| 9 | Advance booking is strongly recommended as the number of children visiting Santa may have to be limited . |
| 10 | Admittedly , Popper and Habermas may seem to be strange bedfellows ; for they have entered the lists against each other precisely over their views on knowledge and reason , both of them seeing the other as an unwitting ideologue . |
| 11 | MGM-Pathe may have to be sold . |
| 12 | John Smith may prove to be the man to give Labour its best chance in a 1996 general election ( although it can not be good to have had him all but enthroned as leader before the leadership contest was even underway ) . |
| 13 | If this issue is not addressed , NT may come to be viewed as an American English system . |
| 14 | At the end of the day , debates over whether we are taking Ecstasy or Ketamine may prove to be missing the point . |