Example sentences of "may be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise there may be many runners who I believe have not yet heard of this relatively new organisation . |
| 2 | There may be many factors to take into account , but usually the overriding consideration is monetary . |
| 3 | There may be many councillors , therefore , who suffer substantial though undefinable loss of job opportunities through their council membership . |
| 4 | And there may be many others but they have n't been discarvard ’ . |
| 5 | While there may be many advantages in terms of space , processing time , productivity , and so on in using abstract units which capture regularities about , say , derivational and inflectional morphology in English , it is not clear how such knowledge should be used in speech processing . |
| 6 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 7 | Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties . |
| 8 | Similarly , there are certain words between which human listeners only hear one difference ( e.g. ’ cap ’ and ’ cab ’ ) , yet there may be many differences between their waveforms . |
| 9 | There may be many planetariums in the world but the London Planetarium is still unique . |
| 10 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 11 | EBG would then suggest that there may be many bird species with these characteristics , and that they all have such a diet . |
| 12 | That is underlined by the absurdity which would result from a literal construction of the word ‘ cost ’ in the case of a loss-making concern such as British Rail or a heavily endowed institution , where the employee 's benefit would have to be valued at a figure in excess — indeed , it may be many times in excess — of the market price of the service provided . |
| 13 | The danger of error increases with the length of the extrapolation , which may be many times the length of the segment to which the curve is fitted . |
| 14 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 15 | There may be many reasons why a patient under hypnosis is able to experience past-life regression ( or , as the doubters might call it , ‘ flights of fancy ’ ) , but any of them can play a significant part in the overcoming of that patient 's particular problem . |
| 16 | We have had troubles in various parts of the country in recent months , and I realise that there may be many reasons for that , but I am convinced that one of them is the depressing effect that such areas have on those who live in them . |
| 17 | There may be many reasons for such divergencies , including the lack of information among workers about employment opportunities . |
| 18 | We should acknowledge at the outset that there may be many cases ( like that illustrated in Fig. 3.1 ) in which presentation of a given stimulus has been shown to result in both latent inhibition and the habituation of a UR . |
| 19 | A load torque 7L displaces the rotor front the demanded position and introduces a static position error , which may be many ministeps . |
| 20 | It is still early days for C&P 's programme and Arthur Thomas points out that it may be many years before some changes will be seen : ‘ For example , look at the way we view the building of plants . |
| 21 | There may be many theories , I have no doubt there are , why we have been sent here by the electorate in such strange proportions . |
| 22 | As with design , there may be many ways of reaching the centre of the maze ; all of these will be right but some will be more efficient than others . |
| 23 | Depending on the geology , the tectonics and thus the topography of the earth 's surface beneath it , it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow . |
| 24 | However the peak static torque is approximately equal for mini-step and conventional drives , so the static position error may be many mini-steps , unless a closed-loop control is used ( see Section 7.4.2 ) . |
| 25 | We have seen that there may be many punishment strategies , and relative to anyone of them there may be a very large set of sustainable price-output configurations . |
| 26 | If meditation means achieving a state in which stress is reduced — which I believe to be the case — a state in which the self-healing processes of the body may be encouraged , then there may be many channels through which to achieve it . |
| 27 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 28 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 29 | Although this allows fast retrieval of records , it can lead to very low packing density of data because there may be many additions in one area and few in others . |
| 30 | They may be such fractions and units but they are much more besides . |