Example sentences of "may [adv] be [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A house that is furnished with good quality used furniture is generally much more interesting and more tastefully decorated than when twice the money is spent on new furniture that may not be a tenth of the quality . |
| 2 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |
| 3 | Tandem may not be the first commercial box-shifter out with a Chorus-based system , though it may yet find itself in a race to be first to deliver in volume . |
| 4 | It may not be the first thing at the top of our minds when we 're , when we 're checking the thing but I think it ought to be checked for that . |
| 5 | The memorandum is useful but it may not be the last word . |
| 6 | Partnership structures — in industry , education , physical and community development of all sorts — may possibly be the last chance to catch up before it is too late . |
| 7 | The situation is unlikely to improve as many areas of Britain prepare to enter what may well be a third consecutive year of drought with groundwater levels remaining low . |
| 8 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 9 | This may well be the first fusion process used in a reactor , but there can also be fusion between deuterons alone or between deuterons and nuclei of helium-3 . |
| 10 | More fun is to be had with the excitable Katch-22 , who favours the talking-about-himself approach to rap and a wider range of noises , most notably on the sprightly ‘ Service With A Smile ’ , which may well be the first tune ever to contain the line ‘ You paedophile ’ . |
| 11 | The positioning of the boiler may well be the first consideration . |
| 12 | He received a walkover into the final when Richard Krajicek , who may well be the next ‘ known ’ to win Wimbledon , withdrew with tendinitis in his right shoulder . |
| 13 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 14 | So Britain may well be the last place engineers from the impoverished Third World come to train , or to buy telecommunications equipment . |
| 15 | The hardest loss for many is to move ultimately from their own home to a home for the elderly , a move which they recognize may well be the last one they will ever make , and which forces them to confront their own death . |
| 16 | Everybody 's aware that this may well be the last Gen , the last Party Conference before the General Election , and what is more , of , an impression of the terrific progress that the Labour Party 's made in recent years , and further gains over the last year in terms of public support , so that we really are on the threshold of a General Election campaign which we realistically hope to win , and we 've got the policies in place to meet the needs of the nation for the nineties . |
| 17 | Fistula formation — for example to the trachea — may then be the first sign of the true nature of the disease . |
| 18 | The defence in section 24(3) may therefore be a last resort . |