Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such problems of internal management as may arise are likely to come from unfamiliarity on the part of individual teachers with the changing requirements of examinations and assessment . |
| 2 | It was this room may think is sparse but is almost over furnished by medieval standards . |
| 3 | This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject . |
| 4 | The regulations which a licensing board may make are concerned with procedure only . |
| 5 | Another measure which the Tories may consider is increased influence over their own affairs for Scottish MPs through the committee structure at Westminster . |
| 6 | This implies that , while the services which are undertaking may provide are subject to its home country rules ( often referred to as ‘ home country financial technique ’ ) , the question of how such services should be carried out ( conduct of business rules ) will be subject to the host country rules . |
| 7 | I accept that whatever good looks I may possess are artful , concocted at large by paint and persona . |
| 8 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 9 | What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains . |
| 10 | Any additional comments you may have are welcome , but please note that this Directive is mandatory within the UK . |
| 11 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 12 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 13 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 14 | In a variation on this feat , the bull-leaper performed the ‘ Diving Leap ’ from a vantage point ; the large , stepped stone block in the north-west corner of the Bull Court at Phaistos was probably used for this purpose , and there may have been similar free-standing vaulting blocks at Knossos and Mallia . |
| 15 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 16 | Equally , while the procedure which produced the Enham texts may have been similar to those responsible for some of Æthelstan 's codes and I Edmund , the promulgation of archiepiscopal admonitions as royal decrees is also reminiscent of those issued by Henry II after the synod of Dortmund in 1005 . |
| 17 | Part of what the Minister said may have been correct . |
| 18 | The few models which have been developed to date may have been correct as far as they go but are clearly incomplete . |
| 19 | This may have been correct , but no alternative was suggested . |
| 20 | There may have been intermittent recoveries , but the bulk of the evidence ( often intractable and indirect ) suggests that until around 1500 they were only temporary . |
| 21 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 22 | Inwardly she may have been nervous , outwardly she appeared calm , relaxed and ready to have fun . |
| 23 | The persuasion to marriage , then , is a criticism of the Friend ( whose reasons for not marrying may have been honourable or dishonourable ) , but it tells us something about the Poet . |
| 24 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 25 | Grant may have been lame , but … fast or silent ? |
| 26 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 27 | ‘ Particulars of Offence : [ The respondent ] on 17 September 1990 dishonestly and with a view to gain for himself or another , or with intent to cause loss to another , falsified a document required for an accounting purpose , namely , a computer generated sales invoice , by making an entry therein which was or may have been misleading , false or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that a discount of 70 per cent . |
| 28 | He may have been right , in his day . |
| 29 | Judge Lifland 's decision may have been right . |
| 30 | In this context the 1912 Minority Report on Divorce may have been right in its opinion that ‘ a blow in one class of life might not be the unforgiveable injury it would be in another ’ . |