Example sentences of "may be [adv] different [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that there may be slightly different circumstances in which it remains true , but a no longer believes it . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is good evidence that the differences between them are not caused by differences between the DNA sequence of their genes , although it may be that different genes are active in different kinds of cells . |
| 5 | It may be that different subgroups of patients with differences in prognosis have been selected into the two diagnostic procedures . |
| 6 | It may be that different accounting treatments lead to different ways of calculating cost ; this is to a considerable extent mitigated by accounting standards but can not be totally ruled out . |