Example sentences of "may [adv] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery . |
| 2 | This may well be for those of you who did in fact agree . |
| 3 | However , if you are merely a dabbler in the drawings game then having access to the full US Geological Survey topographic patterns , architectural and other standards may well be of little significance . |
| 4 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 5 | News Corp may well be worth more in pieces than together . |
| 6 | The hon. Lady will know that there is an attractive £60 million new hospital in Elgin — the West Grampian unit — and that may well be among those expressing an interest in trust status in due course . |
| 7 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 8 | I mean some of our forms , I , I , I have n't worked out what they 're for yet , an , an , and I 'm trying to some run some competitions for the best er , use of , of one particular one , it may well be in this pack . |
| 9 | This has one tiresome consequence , that if one knows only the short title and calendar year , the statute may sometimes be in either of two volumes , and nothing but a process of trial and error can ascertain which . |
| 10 | ‘ I may yet be of some temporary use to my Chapter if I can be salvaged . |
| 11 | The functions described within that intersection may ultimately be of any form necessary for the specification of the product being designed . |