Example sentences of "may [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane .
2 But no details are yet available of the cash to be made available , except that it ‘ may be over £1 million ’ .
3 There are also likely to be provisions against losses on swap deals with local councils , which may be over £50million .
4 In the end the main beneficiary of London 's troubles may be neither Frankfurt nor Amsterdam , nor any other competing centre , but lots of quieter places that are not central at all .
5 I also feel , Brian , we may be avoiding the question that or the part of this question which some of our listeners may be particularly interest in , and Bob did touch upon it , which is have things changed much in democracy in the classroom , is there a change ?
6 Because N may be either headlights or darkness they could also produce the sentence The darkness penetrated the headlights .
7 I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers .
8 Defects in β2 may be either mutations , which affect the structure of the protein , or greatly reduced expression or absence of mRNA .
9 L. scoticum is the additional constant , and there may be also Agrostis stolonifera and Holcus lanatus .
10 However , some horses are not born friendly , and even if many long hours are spent handling the foal , it may never be really friendly , and in fact may be rather standoffish .
11 Finally as some transfers , in particular ‘ bulk ’ may be rather time consuming , the LIFESPAN Manager has the ability to restrict the elapsed time over which LIFESPAN RDBI runs .
12 These may be simply photographs of kittens or cats , or toy animals .
13 Some soft waters from sources containing peat may be slightly acidic , whereas streams receiving water from mine drainage may be strongly acid .
14 Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 per annum .
15 If not it may be about time to offer a vote of confidence and see him on his way the week after .
16 Alright , it may be there fault , but what happens if he fucking get out of control or then I can I always try and do it now , if somebody wants to act like a cunt , let them !
17 That cheery , indefatigable demeanour may be only skin deep , but a firm grasp of reality bodes well for his capacity to withstand the slings and arrows .
18 This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work .
19 For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ .
20 But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower .
21 Thus the processes that affect ordinary people may be only microprocesses of everyday life .
22 The differences in procedure between expert determination and arbitration may be only potential in some cases .
23 It may be only outsider skepticism that leads me to see a subtle , probably subconscious new emphasis on the word ‘ choice ’ .
24 There may be now perestroika , everybody teaming up over the Middle East problem , but we are actually at war economically with all the countries outside this country and most of them , the young people are better trained , people , and better educated , longer educated , higher standards and also at work , there is much more training at work .
25 The statistical viability of random sampling is then compared with the non or semi-statistical viability of the other two techniques , which , in turn , may be more cost effective relative to market research objectives .
26 While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus .
27 That may be so Chairman , but with these two four bedroom houses there could be another six to eight cars coming out of that entrance ,
28 Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged .
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