Example sentences of "may [adv] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Olympic contenders may not be here but that has , 't stopped it being a record entry for the regatta with 498 entries . |
| 2 | Even when there is a grain or more of truth in a criticism , you may not be wholly or , indeed , mainly to blame . |
| 3 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 4 | Usually , we assume that dad will be the tallest , mum the next tallest and so on , but of course this may not be so and unless we know the family there may be little point in exploring the idea . |
| 5 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 6 | er which may or may not be there because we do n't know how much her income is . |
| 7 | It may not be long before her view is upheld . |
| 8 | It may not be long before the roof falls in . |
| 9 | It may not be long before PCR kits are available , comprising test tubes containing all the reagents in a ‘ pre-mix ’ . |
| 10 | With the housing market still struggling to recover , the Bonners may not be moving in the very near future — but it 's rare for follies to come on the market , especially ones you can live in — so it may not be long before a buyer comes along keen to take up residence in Enoch 's Tower . |
| 11 | If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price . |
| 12 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 13 | This is 1 million Hungarian forints ( roughly equal to £8,000 ) , and although the contribution of members may differ it may not be less than 100,000 forints each and the amount must be divisible by 10,000 forints . |
| 14 | Brokers need to satisfy the Authority in a similar fashion except that their issued capital may not be less than 5 million forints in case of a Kft and 10 million forints in the case of a joint-stock company . |
| 15 | ( By the time they reach 17 , the alarm may still be there but it will be reduced . ) |
| 16 | Ads work in several different ways : these may be more or less intellectual or emotional : they may also be more or less conscious . |
| 17 | The party clearly intends to take its next populist stand on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India ( of whom , after 20 years , there may now be more than 10m ) . |
| 18 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 19 | This may well be so but it may never get tried if the transition is too difficult . |
| 20 | If they were n't there and if they were n't being used , then there may well be more and more p pressure on the city centre of York , so they do discharge I think er a positive function . |
| 21 | Gaps may well be there because no one has yet troubled to fill them . |
| 22 | Further , the explicit memory may then be more or less irrelevant . |
| 23 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |