Example sentences of "may [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 2 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 3 | The person holding the wing-tip should always run the down wind wing-tip so that any pull that he may exert is against the weathercocking swing into the wind . |
| 4 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether you are a king or a street sweeper , we all have to dance with the Grim Reaper , ’ he uttered — which you may remember is from that poignant , sensitive art movie , Bill And Ted 's Bogus Journey . |
| 6 | The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved . |
| 7 | Any legitimacy that nuclear weapons may have is in respect not of their potential use , but as regards their possession as a means of ‘ deterrence ’ . |
| 8 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 9 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 10 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 11 | Or it may have been through passive smoking . |
| 12 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 13 | It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education . |
| 14 | It may have been during his time at Paris that the young Lothar , perhaps in the company of these two and other students , visited the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury . |
| 15 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 16 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 17 | However gratifying this may have been for Stirling , one distinct step was taken to clip his wings and stop his independent lobby of senior officers . |
| 18 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 19 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
| 20 | This may have been for a local production company producing a video for one of their corporate clients ; at the other end of the scale , you may have written some pieces for the broadcasters ( BBC , ITV , etc . ) . |
| 21 | The various cups and horns in graves may have been for the consumption of alcoholic liquid , including beor , ealu , medu and win ( Fell 1975 ) . |
| 22 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 23 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 24 | Crucial as this innovation may have been for co-ordination , it has contributed to an increased sense of ‘ distance ’ between policy makers and implementers in a policy system that operates primarily in a unified , top-down , manner . |
| 25 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 26 | However convenient the conflict of love and honour may have been to Anthony Hope as the motive force of his books , he treated it seriously within their emotional climate . |
| 27 | Female involvement may have been at the fringes , though what took place in this ‘ marginal , area may turn out to have been more important than long-forgotten events on the field of play . |
| 28 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 29 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 30 | I think they were all impressed , although it may have been at the thought of Gran going camping ! |