Example sentences of "may [adv] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these patients are loath to consider an ileostomy at the moment but fully accept that pouch excision may eventually be necessary . |
| 2 | If more of them have to install the equipment to comply with an EC directive , it may eventually be possible to collect large amounts of phosphates and recycle them . |
| 3 | Many may eventually be able to work from home rather than commute to an office . |
| 4 | We may eventually be able to check whether the verbal arguments for the Darwinian evolution of language can be simulated on a computer . |
| 5 | The initial inducement may not be taken by customers to imply the normal credit terms , or if it is , the firm 's credit managers may eventually be able to rein back the actual credit period taken to the planned one month . |
| 6 | We may eventually be able to scan the existing card catalogue and generate full records for older stock , but this is a long-term possibility . |
| 7 | If the domain of a criterion statement is broad the representativeness of assessment tasks is more difficult to arrange and criterion performance may thereby be ambivalent . |
| 8 | In resolving the many dilemmas of structure , solutions may only be temporary . |
| 9 | Angioplasty as a primary procedure has very limited application , and it may only be appropriate where the patient sustains an acute coronary occlusion when in close proximity to a centre with highly experienced and immediately available angioplasty expertise . |
| 10 | These may only be printable ASCII characters , including space and tab . |
| 11 | These may only be printable ASCII characters , including space . |
| 12 | In other cases some centres may only be involved in the development or delivery of part of a course . |
| 13 | This may only be wishful thinking , but it is worth thinking . |
| 14 | The hyper-bases so developed may only be usable in their home environment whereas a generalized data-base implementation would provide the basis for the use of the same information for many other purposes [ 1 ] . |
| 15 | The site may only be viable if adjoining land is included and in fact the planning authority may insist that only a comprehensive planning application will be considered . |
| 16 | The answer is yes , although the risk may only be minimal in the case of minor projects associated with dwelling houses . |
| 17 | In this connection the court will , it is thought , be prepared to recognise the unavailability of cover beyond certain limits and that such top-up cover as may be arranged may only be available on an aggregate , as opposed to an " each and every claim " , basis ; ( 5 ) any limitation must be brought to the attention of the client and should be confirmed by the client in writing . |
| 18 | Information necessary to the decoding of a segment may lie outside the arbitrary boundaries imposed for the analysis of that segment , and some of the information within the boundaries may only be relevant to what precedes or follows the segment . |
| 19 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 20 | Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning . |
| 21 | Screening may not be necessary annually , but at least one colonoscopy to the caecum should be performed as polyps may only be present more proximally . |
| 22 | The results of the transplantation experiment may only be due to the transplanted salmon following the lead of the native salmon . |
| 23 | The subtleties of shape that ensure that both halves of the tongs fit together and work , may only be apparent to the smith . |
| 24 | The improvement may only be apparent ( or pseudo ) if , in addition , the increase in real output per capita is accompanied by negative externalities or is caused by increased production of goods and services which are not for current consumption . |
| 25 | Artists who may only be familiar to a West Coast audience but whose rehabilitation was launched by Norman Rosenthal at the Royal Academy are Billy Al Bengston , Mel Ramos and Wayne Thiebaud . |
| 26 | As already in the UK , it will render unlawful ( although not necessarily in terms of criminal law : the penalties may only be civil but must be sufficiently dissuasive ) the misuse or improper disclosure of unpublished price-sensitive information , either by insiders or by those who obtain the information from them . |
| 27 | Whilst these claims may only be small in amount , they are high in volume . |
| 28 | Therefore , rather than attempting to generate theories which hold good for all countries , generalisations may only be possible if ‘ types ’ can be established . |
| 29 | If the site is too narrow , development may only be possible on one side of an access road and equally , where the site is marginally wider than 70 metres , the backland will be undeveloped and therefore relatively uneconomic . |
| 30 | In a less liberal setting , communication may only be possible through a wired pane of glass with an air inlet at the bottom of the pane . |