Example sentences of "they may [be] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ id-impulses ’ may be either for ‘ perverse ’ sexual acts which sometimes can not even be admitted to consciousness as acts which the person desires , or they may be impulses of sadism and destructiveness . |
| 2 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 3 | According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities . |
| 4 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 5 | Other addictive relationships such as some sexual practices may be branded by society as being definitely abnormal or even criminal , yet there is evidence that they may be part of the broad spectrum of addictive disease and therefore outside the personal control of the individual sufferer . |
| 6 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
| 7 | The receptor for TGLP-1 in the rat gastric mucosa seems to be different from that for glucagon-29 , but they may be part of a closely related family . |
| 8 | They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars . |
| 9 | They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables . |
| 10 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |