Example sentences of "may [be] of [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the reader example , the fact that the person is female may be of such insignificance that it is not even included as an attribute . |
| 2 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 3 | With the wide availability of private transport their location may be of little significance unless tile primary demand is for retirement homes , when prospective purchasers will be heavily dependent on local services . |
| 4 | By the same token , new knowledge may be of little relevance to someone innovating a social instrument to satisfy a need that changing demographics or tax laws have created . |
| 5 | Demographics , for instance , may be of little concern to innovators in fundamental industrial processes like steel making , although Mergenthaler 's Linotype machine became successful primarily because there were not enough skilled typesetters available to satisfy a mass market . |
| 6 | This blurring of the boundaries may be of little consequence to users of the service , but it does have implications for the type of care they receive and which agency remains financially responsible for arranging that care . |
| 7 | For example , collocations extracted from the domain of Banking may be of little use when processing a medical report , since words like ’ charge ’ behave differently when used to describe a type of payment rather than a type of nurse . |
| 8 | Obviously , though , if M-tense and L-tense get too far apart , M-tense may be of little use to the analysis of language . |
| 9 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 10 | Development shoot-outs as suggested by one researcher may be a way of widening the solution arena ( Quinn , 1986 ) , but if the uncertainties are too high even this approach may be of little value . |
| 11 | ( The type and purpose of those structures may be of little importance . ) |
| 12 | IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the student 's difficulties may be of another kind : that his reading ability is poor and he has trouble in comprehending the work-card , for instance . |
| 14 | In other words it is possible that local social and ecological facts may be of more importance when interpreting crime than broad processes such as modernization . |
| 15 | ( For a ‘ developed ’ country , this will probably concentrate on the questions asked in the census form ; for other parts of the world the method of conducting the census may be of more interest . ) |
| 16 | Within sublanguage applications a generative approach may be of more use than a probabilistic method . |
| 17 | A flexible approach , however , using short interviews and introducing self help by groups or through use of publications and other media may be of more value . |
| 18 | Detrital grains may be of any size ( from clays to pebbles or larger ) and of varying shape . |
| 19 | These modules may be of any type i.e. source , foreign , pmodel or package . |
| 20 | Text can be bold , underlined or italicised and the 24 fonts provided may be of any point size . |
| 21 | Exhumed forms may be of any age , although Triassic forms have probably received more attention than any others in this country . |
| 22 | The underlying liver disease , which results in portal hypertension , may be of any cause as extrahepatic causes of portal hypertension have been associated with PHT . |
| 23 | ISIS ( The Independent Schools Information Service ) may be of most use if you wish to explore this option , and they will send you detailed lists of schools in your area with contact names and addresses . |
| 24 | Although the events may be of most interest to people over 50 , views and ideas from everyone will be welcomed . |
| 25 | It may be of most value for occasional use , in known responders , to save embarrassment when sleeping away from home . |
| 26 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 27 | The underlying pattern in modern societies may be of this kind too ( Becker 1981 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region . |
| 29 | Can I give you a bit of something that we picked up last week that may be of some benefit to you ? |
| 30 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |