Example sentences of "[det] may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FCC 's cleverly contrived technical contest may have helped accelerate the move to digital broadcasting , but that may not be of much help to the terrestrial TV broadcasters it had hoped to escort into the digital age , nor give much of an edge to American equipment makers . |
| 2 | So a female quail does not begin to incubate her clutch of a dozen or so eggs until it is complete , and that may not be for a fortnight after the first was laid . |
| 3 | What environmentalists are concerned about is the fear that in spite of a clay lining — dangerous waste from the site will eventually leak through the porous chalk below and into the groundwater — though that may not be for another fifty years . |
| 4 | Although that may not be against a literal interpretation of the wording of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty , would not such a move be a gross affront to the potential proliferators who are reconsidering the need to indulge in the acquisition of nuclear weapons ? |
| 5 | With majority voting the European Commission and the Council of Ministers can put things through that may not be in the Labour Party 's and our interests . |
| 6 | That may not be by name , John . |
| 7 | The hon. Lady will know that there is an attractive £60 million new hospital in Elgin — the West Grampian unit — and that may well be among those expressing an interest in trust status in due course . |
| 8 | Fear that all this may just be in my head . |
| 9 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 10 | Performance and comfort : if you prefer bags with lots of room to move , then this may not be for you . |
| 11 | Adults are at least able to acquire , even though this may not be at a sufficiently high level of competence . |
| 12 | But I think what , perhaps the , the best thing to do is when the transcriptions come back , and this may not be till the summer because it is a very long long process , when they come back , they will all go back to the person who made them ten people . |
| 13 | It should be noted that for some performances , this may not be until the interval . |
| 14 | This may well be for those of you who did in fact agree . |
| 15 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 16 | Parts of these may still be in use or have ponds or marlpits in them , but they are generally easy to recognise . |
| 17 | However , some or all may equally be from earlier texts which have not survived . |
| 18 | The former may well be of crucial importance in relation to ethnic minorities in the next decade , as the numbers of the very old in these groups increases . |