Example sentences of "may [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 2 | There may be financial problems arising from the patient 's illness , and the social worker can help in obtaining the benefit payments available from the State for patients and their carers , called the attendance allowance . |
| 3 | The results may be low theory — confused , inconsistent , full of hyperbole and silence , but still theory , and theory which is compelled by necessity to draw key terms and assumptions from high theory , from the more systematic accounts of art , commerce , pleasure and class that are available . |
| 4 | it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of |
| 5 | Indeed there may be strong opposition to taking on delegated tasks for fear , perhaps justified , that failure will prove personally very damaging . |
| 6 | Some may be strong characters or clever talkers . |
| 7 | It is rather like working with people from other countries ; there may be good communication at one level , but at the same time one has the sense of the difference of cultures . |
| 8 | It may be good idea to take them if you are ill or if you are a heavy alcohol consumer but they should not be routinely necessary . |
| 9 | Otherwise , there may be good reasons why he has not advanced , perhaps because he has been ill or over-tired . |
| 10 | In other jobs , there may be good reasons why employees have a right , under the contract , to be given work to do . |
| 11 | This is not to deny that there may be good reasons why members of religious minorities should have sought a career in science and why they excelled in particular areas . |
| 12 | There may be good reasons for it being as it is , but it could be different , and is different in other countries . |
| 13 | If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children . |
| 14 | But there may be good reasons every now and then for not re-issuing er , even though it 's agreed what the will be . |
| 15 | ‘ They may be good trackers , ’ Allen said , ‘ but they 'll have to leave their horses again and they wo n't do that . ’ |
| 16 | The physiological ‘ triggers ’ for T-cell adhesion are unknown , but cytokines may be good candidates as they are released during inflammation and trigger adhesion in neutrophils and monocytes . |
| 17 | BOUTS of nausea and vomiting that accompany the first months of pregnancy may be good news for the mother , according to two new theories on the cause of morning sickness . |
| 18 | But while rightsizing may be good news for end-users , it is bad news for many of the established giants of the IT industry . |
| 19 | FALLING interest rates may be good news for home buyers but they do n't do savers any favours . |
| 20 | It is rather too easy to rally chauvinistic backing for the support of industries against foreign competition but nonetheless there may be good grounds for protection . |
| 21 | For example , there may be good grounds for the total exclusion of the public from some nature reserves . |
| 22 | There may be good grounds , such as a requirement to frequently access this data , to include this unnormalised and derived relation on the database . |
| 23 | There may be good arguments for establishing a ‘ Temporary Contemporary ’ in London , where the Tate Gallery could share an involvement with other institutions in restoring London to a position of eminence on the international contemporary art scene . |
| 24 | Occasionally there are situations where two techniques can be used , and there may be good reason to apply both so that they provide supporting evidence for each other ( for example , see p. 134 for the use of TL and uranium series dating at Pontnewydd Cave ) . |
| 25 | Sufficient has been said to suggest that there may be good reason to utilize intergovernmental grants and that , in order to choose the appropriate grant , it is necessary to consider both the objective and the likely response of the local authority to the grant . |
| 26 | Incidentally , the SRU will continue to press for the IRFB to form a Laws Advisory Committee consisting of genuine experts as opposed to five members of the board who may be good men and true but who know damn all about , for example , why the laws have evolved as they have . |
| 27 | In F v West Berkshire Health Authority [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 545 , Lord Goff stated : where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent , as … in the case of a mentally disordered person … there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient 's consent … the doctor must act in the best interests of his patient , just as if he had received his patient 's consent so to do … the lawfulness of the doctor 's action is to be found in the principle of necessity … the doctor must act in accordance with a responsible and competent body of relevant professional opinion … it may be good practice to consult relatives and others who are concerned with the care of the patient . |
| 28 | They may be good business for surveyors , but they are a waste of money for those buyers who are unsuccessful or who have to pull out for one reason or another . |
| 29 | Chopping down forests to clear land for cattle , as world demand for hamburgers soars , may be good business in the short run , but its long-run effect on the accumulation of greenhouse gases is significant . |
| 30 | An attack may be totally sudden or there may be prior warning . |