Example sentences of "[det] [noun] may be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 2 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 3 | Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible . |
| 4 | And her advise to others like her is to seek help , rather than become victims of law which in this case may be over protective . |
| 5 | Some groups may be for information giving . |
| 6 | ‘ I think some introductions may be in order , ’ his Welsh drawl intervened , cutting through the uneasy silence . |
| 7 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 8 | The discovery of this conodont-bearing animal suggests that at least some conodonts may be among the most primitive of vertebrates . |
| 9 | This lacuna may be of interest in trying to establish the circumstances , or complex of circumstances , required if an ice age is to occur … assuming , of course , that the neat spacing of the others is not just a matter of chance . |
| 10 | This effect may be to due a different RNA secondary structure affecting the accessibility of the internal AUG codons . |
| 11 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 12 | Family property owning patterns are affected by widespread home ownership , so it is not impossible that in addition to ordinary feelings of affection , concern and duty , some carers may be under pressure to care , to save family wealth seeping out in expensive residential care fees . |
| 13 | This picture may be in monochrome , or it may be in colour if your machine is fitted with one of the new miniature LCD screens . |
| 14 | Eye pigments occurring in the ommatidial cells of some insects may be of special interest since studies of their metabolism reveal something of the mode of action of genes controlling eye colour . |
| 15 | In some ways this group may be in most need of our prayers , but the sense of freshness and opportunity pervades . |
| 16 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 17 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 18 | This comment may be of a moral , biographical or prophetic nature . |
| 19 | Some relief may be at hand . |
| 20 | Development shoot-outs as suggested by one researcher may be a way of widening the solution arena ( Quinn , 1986 ) , but if the uncertainties are too high even this approach may be of little value . |
| 21 | These outer and inner zones yield the taille , a juice which becomes increasingly weaker in acidity and sugar , although some minerals may be in greater abundance . |
| 22 | For geological purposes , we are usually only interested in emission in the visible spectrum , although it should be noted that a proportion of emission in some minerals may be in the infra-red or ultra-violet ( e.g. in feldspars ) . |
| 23 | Since we also hope that this account may be of interest to those who do not know the area , it includes , especially at the beginning , some historical and other background information about Lewis and Harris , in the wider contexts of the Western Isles as a whole and of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 24 | Some measures may be in train before the white paper is published . |
| 25 | This information may be of rather general nature , because all DNA cytosine-C 5 methyltransferases are structurally related ( 28 , 34 , 35 ) ; conservation of the active-site ProCys motif also extends to thymidilate synthetase ( 36 ) . |
| 26 | So , for example , they would know the current orders and be able to compare these with similar periods in the previous years , they would also have a ‘ feel ’ of production levels , stock levels etc. even though this information may be of a more qualitative rather than quantitative nature . |
| 27 | Carbamylated haemoglobin correlates with the time-averaged urea concentration in patients receiving regular haemodialysis and measurement of this substrate may be of use in assessing the adequacy of renal-replacement therapies . |
| 28 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 29 | Some residents may be in bed when you come on duty , but you will probably need to help some people to bed . |
| 30 | This high level of divergence , together with the absence of Oct-11b from rats ( data not shown ) suggests that this gene may be under the reduced selective pressure typical of pseudogenes . |