Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Cadafael , king of Gwynedd , Oswiu 's domination of the north Britons , perhaps particularly the Votadini , may have been of principal concern . |
| 2 | This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study . |
| 3 | The class of people for whom this may have been of paramount importance was not the traditional aristocracy which had never been involved in work , having merely inherited their estates , but those termed the nouveaux riches , the use of which term implies a much more direct involvement in the work process as the basis for capital accumulation . |
| 4 | They may have been of impermanent materials , such as wood , or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours . |
| 5 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 6 | It is likely too that the priest tidied up and eliminated any traces there may have been of disordered thinking or language , as he almost certainly corrected any theological mistakes , for his own safety . |
| 7 | But most importantly , no information was given on the location of recurrence of the disease which may have been of prognostic importance . |