Example sentences of "may [verb] [be] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |