Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 2 | Any legitimacy that nuclear weapons may have is in respect not of their potential use , but as regards their possession as a means of ‘ deterrence ’ . |
| 3 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 4 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 5 | However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers . |
| 6 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 8 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 9 | However convenient the conflict of love and honour may have been to Anthony Hope as the motive force of his books , he treated it seriously within their emotional climate . |
| 10 | In practice it is difficult to locate these points , as the foot of the old cliff ( O on Fig. 9.18 ) may be obscured by talus or , more often , modified by erosion , in which case it may have been at A and the former cliff be represented by AH . |
| 11 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 12 | Welsh rulers , with whom Offa may have been at war and who possibly ruled in British territory subject to him , could have been among the kings of the Scots ( Irish ) who recognized the lordship of Charlemagne . |
| 13 | The Corporation may have been on cover for several years and when subsidence damage is discovered , it requires full underpinning . |
| 14 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 15 | You may have been of course . |
| 16 | It is also suggested that experiential learning associated with employment may have been of value to these students . |
| 17 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 18 | I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality . |
| 19 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 20 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 21 | Infant mortality remained unremittingly high at about 150/1,000 from 1840 until about 1900 , although this apparent stability may have been in part an artefact of the extension of birth registration to the least healthy groups of the population , and of a shift in the social class composition of births . |
| 22 | Others , myself among them , are not convinced that Cromwell was the sole architect of the Privy Council , which may have been in part the consequence of his fall rather than of his predominance . |
| 23 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 24 | Ford 's money may have been in evidence , but Ford 's men were not . |
| 25 | These developments may have been in keeping with the new vision of Empire , but they did nothing to keep alive the Christian symbolism of death as the gateway to life . |
| 26 | CLEAR SIGNS that a doping ring may have been in operation emerged yesterday when the Jockey Club admitted that Surrey police are investigating the ‘ nobbling ’ of a horse at Yarmouth last August . |
| 27 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 28 | Any parent who is worried their child may have been in contact with the doctor can still phone the hospital for advice . |
| 29 | The windows were also provided with louvred shutters which could be removed and stored when not in use ; these shutters may have been in place at the time of capture . |
| 30 | This may have been in connection with duties at his Gloucester Docks warehouse or possibly in the Stroud area . |