Example sentences of "may be [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such factors as incentives , motivation , perseverance , and the like may account for some of the proportion allocated to education ; and these factors may be partly the effects of education and partly its causes . |
| 2 | A change in body weight with ageing may be partly the result of an increment in fat mass . |
| 3 | The title of Willie van Peer 's The taming of the text is intentionally and instructively ambiguous , since , as the editor himself points out in the introduction , " the text may be either the subject or the object of the " " taming " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 4 | This may be either the landowner or his tenant , depending on the tenant 's occupancy agreement . |
| 5 | The few that are older may be either the result of Tudor or Stuart enclosure , or examples of monastic granges which have already been discussed . |
| 6 | In sentences 3 and 4 , the reference value of he may be either the president or some other male person . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to Holland and Belgium last August with the Ireland training panel but failed to win my first cap , but helping Ulster to another Leinster Regiment Cup may be just the springboard this time . ’ |
| 8 | Starry eyed lovers , spoilt brats and feuding parents may be just the ticket for the maiden aunt but what the old fashioned bit of Victorian nonsense is doing surfacing in the West End in recession-hit 1992 is a mystery . |
| 9 | ‘ She may be just the person we need , ’ said David , glancing meaningfully at Juliet . |
| 10 | This may be just the speculation of disaffected dealers . |
| 11 | But these may be just the cost of buying ( selling ) either a future or the underlying shares . |
| 12 | And this may be just the recoil for a bigger jump , like 1923 was . ’ |
| 13 | ECCENTRIC MEYERSON MAY BE JUST THE CURE |
| 14 | If you 've been thinking about a career in hairdressing and need some professional advice without parting with any cash , the new video from Hair by Alan d may be just the answer . |
| 15 | PEN COMPUTING MAY BE JUST THE THING FOR MID-RANGE SYSTEMS IN CHINA |
| 16 | JIM Maxmin , Laura Ashley 's ebullient new American chief executive , may be just the sort of new blood the company needs , but his transatlantic marketing speak sits uncomfortably with the brand 's image . |
| 17 | In which case , this may be just the book for all disillusioned fans of yesteryear . |
| 18 | Pugh may be nearer the truth . |
| 19 | In other words , their alliances may be simply the produce of shared material circumstances . |
| 20 | If the sufferer loses his or her employment , this may be exactly the stimulus that ultimately leads him or her to seek recovery . |
| 21 | These may be precisely the areas in which ethnic minorities may have to buy houses because they are cheap . |
| 22 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |
| 23 | 1.3 " the Site " means the [ building and adjoining ] Premises described in the First Schedule The " site " may be merely the site upon which the premises are to be constructed or may comprise the whole of the landlord 's development . |
| 24 | So although th th the equality of opportunity may be there the attitudes maybe have n't changed that much , or have they ? |
| 25 | As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga . |
| 26 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 27 | In the male , the equivalent chromosome may be of the same type — an X chromosome — or it may be roughly the shape of the letter Y , in which case it is known as a Y chromosome . |