Example sentences of "may be [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some may be mostly straightforward logs , hedges , rails etc. , others may include ditches , water , steps , drops etc. , which may be off-putting for the beginner . |
| 2 | If there are good arguments for using video regularly as a carrier of lectures — sometimes the case in a programme which is repeated in several centres — then there may be equally good arguments for planning and recording them as video programmes . |
| 3 | ‘ The goods which form the subject of a contract of sale may be either existing goods , owned or possessed by the seller , or goods to be manufactured or acquired by him after the making of the contract of sale , in this Act called ‘ future goods . ’ ’ |
| 4 | As we noted above , judicial review actions may be either private actions or public actions or hybrid actions . |
| 5 | The course is therefore structured to prepare students whose aspirations may be either single discipline orientated or who wish to pursue a more diverse route . |
| 6 | While prosecuted crime may be largely working class , whether crime as a wider category is so is rather debatable , given that a large amount of middle and upper-class criminality goes undetected . |
| 7 | The police believe the killers may be just petty criminals , who are now terrified , after a simple job stealing scrap metal , went horribly wrong . |
| 8 | The police believe the killers may be just petty criminals , who are now terrified , after a simple job stealing scrap metal , went horribly wrong . |
| 9 | These creatures may be just human beings , or just animals or a mixture of both , but which , in this instance , and ignoring for the purposes of this chapter those deviations which we call perversions , are not affected by any element of sexual attraction . |
| 10 | The second is that there may be slightly different circumstances in which it remains true , but a no longer believes it . |
| 11 | The individual specialist receives notably more self and family referrals , often , in what may be historically special circumstances , for day care . |
| 12 | ‘ Underprescribers ’ may be simply prudent prescribers but may also not be informed on the latest thinking on the benefits of drug treatment . |
| 13 | ‘ Miracles , ’ said Cadfael somewhat sententiously , ‘ may be simply divine manipulation of ordinary circumstances . |
| 14 | Thus adult people may be dominantly oral types , taking everything to them ( engulfers ) or gift-givers or miserly people of the anal type . |
| 15 | In such a phase , there may be little interpersonal gratification for those who care and are cared for except at the level of the meeting and satisfaction of basic human needs , unless there is a kind of ‘ love bank ’ in the carer from earlier days . |
| 16 | Given the short period to maturity , there may be little remaining dividend uncertainty . |
| 17 | There may be little structural difference , broadly speaking , between a goalkeeper guarding his goal , Cerberus guarding the gates of Hell , and a soldier on duty outside an army barracks . |
| 18 | If these world markets are themselves genuinely competitive , and if the domestic market is open to imports , then there may be little direct harm resulting from the pursuit of large scale ( though ideally one would wish there to be some scrutiny of the dominant firm in the context of the world market by a supra-national competition authority ) . |
| 19 | They may be entirely acceptable procedures in nature reserves with clearly defined goals , but not in a place given back to nature . |
| 20 | Other noxious substances may be very good drugs too if they are understood and properly used . |
| 21 | That may be very good news for the people of South Yorkshire who are below the age of sixty five , but I do n't think it 's realistic . |
| 22 | This method is not very useful for work groups , especially the informal ones in organizations , as there may be very strong bonds between a group of people even though the verbal signals are few . |
| 23 | These may be very simple things , such as ‘ seeing ’ that a friend will be getting in touch shortly , or knowing what is coming in tomorrow 's post . |
| 24 | You may be very certain Araminta arranged everything herself , probably in her mother 's name . |
| 25 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 26 | In other words " 3 " and " 6 " may be very brief episodes , whereas the pause between " 4 " and " 5 " may be very long . |
| 27 | First , commodities and stocks are homogeneous goods ; paintings , drawings and works of art in general are not ; a bushel of wheat sold in Chicago in 1947 is almost identical to a bushel sold in London twenty-five years later , while even two Picassos may be very different goods ( a fortiori , a Picasso is different from a Chagall ) . |
| 28 | This suggests a ‘ suitable ’ crop or land use and there may be very different weightings given by different land-users and government agents to what is regarded as suitable . |
| 29 | Sometimes actually bringing in the agencies of the law may be like pouring oil on a fire rather than pouring water on a fire . |
| 30 | This may be less damaging overall than the psychological effects of feeling alienated from normal school life , by constantly having to avoid certain classes or not eat school food . |