Example sentences of "may [adv] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 2 | Lactoferrin may thus be of great importance as a non-specific anti-phlogistic defence factor at the primary immunological barriers . |
| 3 | At this time of year the process of decaying old vegetation will also deplete oxygen when it may already be in short supply . |
| 4 | Even though much of this information may already be in electronic form , retrieving the correct document from a database is not simple . |
| 5 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 6 | There is increasing evidence that the age range 10 to 19 may be the crucial age for exposure , though younger children may also be at increased risk . |
| 7 | They may also be of limited use when trying to judge the success of many plans . |
| 8 | For a composite material consisting of a concentration of particles with orientation described by and elastic constants of a second phase , which may also be of general elastic properties , the Voigt scheme would lead to sums such as |
| 9 | In selected patients assays of penicillin , co-trimoxazole , flucloxacillin , ciprofloxacin , metronidazole , and rifampicin may also be of clinical value . |
| 10 | No one the police may now be in close contact with since you are missing . |
| 11 | If the goals of public health medicine are health promotion and the prevention of ill health , warn Whitty and Jones , then the specialty is in danger of veering off course in pursuit of the purchasing function , which ‘ is likely to be ineffective in improving the population 's health and may even be in direct conflict with this role . ’ |
| 12 | It should be added , though the authors do not mention this , that the highly solidaristic ideology of mining communities in the North-East of Britain may well be of great importance in sustaining these egalitarian working groups and that they may not be viable in other areas where a more individualistic ideology is adhered to . |
| 13 | Dr Ramaiah said : ‘ It may well be of international importance and create a blueprint for such studies in the future . ’ |
| 14 | More disaggregated spatial data is not yet available though earlier studies ( e.g. Padoa-Schioppa 1987 ) suggest that the range of disparity may well be of similar if not greater orders of magnitude . |
| 15 | You have seen that the smooth plains may well be of non-volcanic origin . |
| 16 | The former may well be of crucial importance in relation to ethnic minorities in the next decade , as the numbers of the very old in these groups increases . |
| 17 | Even so , pouchitis is an enigmatic condition and it may well be of multifactorial origin . |
| 18 | Over the rest of the country , the large number of medieval chapels , most of which have not survived , may well be of pre-Conquest date , and they represent a fuller ecclesiastical landscape than has formerly been considered . |
| 19 | Visits may well be in private , except if a specific procedure is undertaken — eg , taking blood for identification purposes , which needs to be witnessed . |
| 20 | By the time you read this , the last of the old American planemaking herd may well be in French hands . |
| 21 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 22 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 23 | The effect of this agent may be a result of its ability to reduce the lithogenicity of bile and it may therefore be of particular benefit in patients with complicating biliary calculi . |