Example sentences of "may [be] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 2 | It is important to remember that there are risks attached to being kind to people in this state , and important also not to underestimate how difficult it may be for such people to reach out on their own . |
| 3 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 4 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 5 | In many of the large catchments to which the DoE refers , impact of nitrate may now be over the limit for only a week each year , but in future it may be for two weeks , then three , then a month or more : when does the UK propose to take action ? |
| 6 | Erm , you can use ordinary spelling , you probably will use ordinary spelling , or phonetic transcription , this may be for short sections . |
| 7 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 8 | Opportunities for communication may have been reduced ; the concentration needed to listen attentively may be for shorter periods ; the whole process of comprehension and response may have slowed down . |
| 9 | ‘ An initial contract may be for three years but we have to look further than that . |
| 10 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 11 | So — hard as it may be for some people to believe — we disinfected the whole place , sloshing the stuff everywhere . |
| 12 | This approach , far from just offering a comfortable sense of hand-holding , serves as an excellent safety net , as it helps us to identify at an early stage where a trainee 's progress may be for some reason deficient , and to take whatever steps may be needed to rectify the situation . |
| 13 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 14 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 15 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 16 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |