Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 2 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 3 | They may include being a wife to your husband , a mother to your children , or a daughter to your parents . |
| 4 | Now , perhaps , people will be more inclined to do just that , and if they are , then what we may need is a trade union link review group mark two . |
| 5 | For old people living alone or together , there will be risks which they and others may feel is a price worth paying for a richer and more fulfilling life . |
| 6 | What the European Court of Justice may decide is a matter of pure speculation . |
| 7 | And there is a point of view from which Ronald Fraser might be seen as a man of Marxist leanings who paid a professional adviser what may have been a fair whack of a working man 's wages to enquire with him into the deficiencies of his affective life . |
| 8 | That person may have been a university lecturer , a teacher , a receptionist , a cleaner , a waitress or anything . |
| 9 | This may have been a reasonable starting assumption for the initial round of forecasts made in 1985 , but it is not adequate now . |
| 10 | This may have been a conservative blue colour with an elegant stripe down the middle of it , but it was all skew-whiff . |
| 11 | He accepts that the letter which provoked the final breach with Mr McLean , with its confusion over the proposal to meet , ‘ may have been a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 12 | Suez , in 1956 , may have been a buoy in the main stream of British history , marking the end of empire and the beginning of the post-imperial era , but the course taken by Britain when rounding that buoy was based upon her experiences since the end of the Second World War . |
| 13 | There was what may have been a bishop 's mitre on the skull , which grinned amiably up at us . |
| 14 | Dana was often embarrassed by his good looks and their power over everyone who met him , so his tiny writing may have been a kind of Walserian camouflage . |
| 15 | This may have been a popular superstition , but it was by no means confined to uneducated people . |
| 16 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 17 | Just one thing Matt may have been a toyboy ten years ago , but what should he be called now ? |
| 18 | But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower . |
| 19 | It may have been a controversial church , but its image as a party church dates only from about 1977 when Vanguard disappeared and unionist politics became a straight fight between the Officials and the DUP . |
| 20 | Under his breath , so that Earl could not hear him , he murmured ‘ Holy cow ! ’ ( ’ or it may have been a little more graphic ’ ) . |
| 21 | At one time , this may have been a mill chase with a waterwheel turning . |
| 22 | Scotland may have been a remote country . |
| 23 | That contentious lesbian lesson may have been a well-meant attempt to broaden minds , but I 'd like to bet that the main result was a room full of scarlet faces . |
| 24 | Police believe the weapon may have been a standard cartridge shotgun , specially adapted to fire bullets . |
| 25 | Marnham records the unusual theory put forward by Simenon 's son John that his father 's sexual appetite ‘ may have been a consequence of the family 's acute sense of smell ’ — the latter being essential apparently , in order to feel sexual desire . |
| 26 | This may have been a difficult question for some to answer as it was an assessment of their own abilities . |
| 27 | She explained that the decline may have been a direct result of the local publicity given to her earlier concerns , as GPs cut back TMP prescriptions . |
| 28 | The result may have been a conflicting programme for pupils . |
| 29 | The part you require is 560794 ( Genuine Parts ) This is equivalent to GTRIII which is a Unipart number As you have fitted two of these to no avail I would try the gauge itself As your Land Rover has been fitted with a non-original switch to work the glow plugs and this has caught fire , there may have been a short circuit which damaged the voltage stabiliser and temperature sender unit and has probably damaged the gauge itself The colour of the sender unit is not significant |
| 30 | The Pressurized Water Reactor may have been a new type of reactor to Britain , but it was , and has remained , the brand leader in most other nuclear nations . |