Example sentences of "may [adv] be [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may not be many opportunities to aviate in winter , but those that do appear can provide the best flying of the year — light winds , excellent power and density altitude conditions and a razor sharp horizon . |
| 2 | This mapping may be carried out automatically by the DBMS ; indeed there may not be any options open to the user . |
| 3 | ‘ But there may not be any profits . ’ |
| 4 | But yesterday 's new blueprint came coupled with a chilling warning that there may not be enough teachers left to carry out the Government 's new wishes . |
| 5 | Because the porpoise is such a slow breeder , there may not be enough individuals left to guarantee the survival of the species . |
| 6 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 7 | With a change in the rules over foreign ownership of domestic airlines now likely ( see main story ) , there may soon be more bidders . |
| 8 | There may still be some possibilities , however , perhaps by filling as much of the waking day as possible with exhausting and demanding activity to reduce the time which can be given to introspection . |
| 9 | There may also be some economies of scale in marketing effort . |
| 10 | But there may also be more extremes in the weather such as severe storms , droughts and floods . |
| 11 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 12 | There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium . |
| 13 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may well be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 14 | Ultimately it should be possible to cease activities within the office on Poll Tax matters and leave the Sheriff Officers to collect monies due , although this may well be several years off . |
| 15 | The real er difficulty is that we at this stage do n't actually know what 's going to be in the local plan and we believe and this is what erm Mid Sussex District Council are suggesting , is that it will be an amalgamation of the current separate local plans which cover their area , but there may well be some changes erm and until we see the thing as a whole we do n't know what it will say , moreover erm there may be elements outside the East Grinstead housing and business allocation which erm from another point of view might lead to a withholding of the statement of conformity . |
| 16 | The definition of " contract for the hire of goods " in s 6 of the SGSA is not all-encompassing , and there may well be some contracts of bailment which fall outside it . |
| 17 | There may well be some examples of families which operate like that but it is not the general pattern , even in relationships between parents and children which come closest to it . |
| 18 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |