Example sentences of "may [adv] be [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not be out of unwillingness but rather ignorance on the part of parents : they do not know how to go about encouraging such skills . |
| 2 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 3 | And this factor of priorities is reflected in the literature directed towards parents , which , though it may often be out of touch with individual parental needs and circumstances , is written within a total social context and expresses closely enough prevailing social trends . |
| 4 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 5 | If not he may even be out of the team . |
| 6 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 7 | THOSE Welsh fathers whose sons hero worship Emyr Lewis and Robert Jones rather than Ian Rush and Mark Hughes could be in for a nasty shock next Christmas when they discover the Welsh rugby kit they bought this year may well be out of date . |
| 8 | Well I 'm not prepared to become involved in er er discussing the speeches which I did n't hear or er which may well be out of context or anything of that sort . |
| 9 | It may indeed be out of date in that it was yesterday 's intellectual fad , but the positivist position I have outlined seems the only possible one for someone who is seeking new laws , and new ways , to describe the universe . |
| 10 | Monkeys also use sticks to reach food that may otherwise be out of reach , and they can use stones to help them open fruit and nuts . |