Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 2 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 3 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 4 | This in turn suggests that class politics of the old sort may only have been the politics of modernism in its classic , now discredited phase . |
| 5 | And there may only have been one clock in the town where they worked and that would have been on the town hall or the church . |
| 6 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 7 | As for boffin , although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown , I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it . |
| 8 | Some of these functions are best performed by University Institutes , some by a Curriculum Development Centre , some by a Curriculum Planning Unit and it is therefore possible that functions which may hitherto have been seen as either wholly performed by this body or that may increasingly be undertaken in partnership . |
| 9 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 10 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 11 | Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold ! |
| 12 | Heminge may merely have been indicating that The Winter 's Tale was unlikely to prove controversial to a censor in whatever version it was performed . |
| 13 | The proposition that there are no laws which Parliament may not make is one which has been uttered frequently . |
| 14 | ‘ What your map may not show is that the only way down to Thira anchorage is by mule-track down a precipitous cliff . |
| 15 | NOTE Men may not like being taken to the toilet by a woman , nor a woman by a man . |
| 16 | What he may not realize is that often when he puts money in , the bank effectively takes money out . |
| 17 | Another way in which the simultaneous creation of the arbitrage position in both the spot and futures markets may not occur is when only one of these markets is open , in which case the no-arbitrage condition is undefined , and arbitrage transactions are impossible . |
| 18 | But then the travellers , too , may not have been quite as lucky as Stewart , in his old age , can sometimes suggest . |
| 19 | It is possible for an aircraft to have several different modes of spinning , and all of them may not have been discovered during the testing . |
| 20 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 21 | It may not have been the origin of his interest in such people but clearly played a formative part in his development . |
| 22 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 23 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 24 | Mr Gandhi may not have been personally involved in the Bofors contract , but his government 's clumsy efforts to keep the case under wraps have smacked of guilt , and the Prime Minister 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ image of five years ago has all but been destroyed by the scandal . |
| 25 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 26 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 27 | The problem of fascist sympathies among the ranks of MI5 at the outset of the war is entirely ignored , as is the removal in 1940 of its founder and director , Sir Vernon Kell , which may or may not have been connected with that issue . |
| 28 | It may not have been sensible to climb alone up here at this time in these conditions , but it was little enough , and that straightforward . |
| 29 | With the really grotesque grotesques , the authorities may not have been quite so lenient . |
| 30 | Independent Producers may not have been a particularly well-managed production outfit but the filmmakers had developed sufficient self-discipline to ensure that , while the films might become increasingly expensive , they were always tightly constructed and realized the potential in their subject matter . |