Example sentences of "may be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes you will be caring for clients who may be physically or verbally abusive , or unpleasant in their personal habits . |
| 2 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 3 | The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes . |
| 4 | If A is of simple form ( e.g. sparse ) this characteristic may be partly or wholly destroyed in forming A1 ; on the other hand , A1 has a column of zeros , and thus its own simplicity . |
| 5 | If the file is small , the cylinder index may be partly or entirely held in main storage , as explained earlier in this chapter ( see p. 228 ) . |
| 6 | It may well be that factors other than orthofunction are producing these improvements ; factors such as better resourcing , a purposeful environment , the amount of time spent in active learning each day , or the one-to-one relationship with conductors , may be equally or more important than the specific application of the technique of orthofunction itself . |
| 7 | The ability to formulate original thoughts , as well as the opportunity to put these into effect , both demand several other qualities , personal as well as situational , that may be partially or completely independent of those that might be ascribable to ‘ psychotic ’ modes of thinking . |
| 8 | In well-winnowed sediments there is generally little or no matrix , leaving resultant pore spaces which may be partially or totally occluded ( or filled ) by cement during diagenesis ( Fig. 5.2b ) . |
| 9 | Teams may be outside or cross the conventional boundaries of the business and encompass business partners , suppliers or customers . |
| 10 | Where the application is made to the district judge he may , if in doubt as to the proper order to be made , refer the application to the judge forthwith or at the next convenient opportunity , and the judge may hear the application and make such order as may be just or may refer it back to the district judge with directions . |
| 11 | Therefore let yourself be moved towards X ( a goal which may be here or there , now or then , yours or mine ) . |
| 12 | It may be above or below the face value . |
| 13 | Steeply sloping sites may be totally or partially unsuitable for development and the writer can recall a site where only two thirds of the land was developable and the remainder barely suitable for inclusion in the gardens of the completed dwellings . |
| 14 | By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded , so that nothing can be learnt from them . |
| 15 | The spicules may be only loosely associated within the sponge tissues , or may be more or less fused to form rigid skeletons . |
| 16 | The other distinctions are relative rather than absolute ; for example , the subject matter may be more or less abstract , the audience may be very well known or less well known . |
| 17 | The heap may or may not heat up due to aerobic bacterial action , and the end product may be more or less valuable accordingly . |
| 18 | Such skills or knowledge may be more or less specialised , comprehensible , or penetrable to an outsider . |
| 19 | Bottoms may be more or less sensuous to those whose old preoccupations centred on anal functions . |
| 20 | Some form of analysis ( which may be more or less explicit ) is necessarily a part of the interpretation of texts , of understanding how a poet or novelist achieves his or her effects , and consequently must figure in the production of accurate writing . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the relocation package may be more or less generous . |
| 22 | He might perhaps attribute the incompleteness of his account to the fact that he is a ‘ bourgeois ’ subject , who can only glimpse an alternative view ofthe individual ; but this defence is still a problem , for even a glimpse suggests that the ISAs of the capitalist totality may be more or less effective , and this variation will have to be explained . |
| 23 | So it seems that this is a further reason for Althusser to allow that the process of constitution may be more or less successful . |
| 24 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 25 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |
| 26 | Answers given by the forty women in the sample to questions about work tasks suggest that certain characteristics of housework may be more or less uniformly experienced as dissatisfying while others are potentially rewarding . |
| 27 | Ads work in several different ways : these may be more or less intellectual or emotional : they may also be more or less conscious . |
| 28 | A syllabus may be more or less fixed or negotiable ; apparently rigid courses can in fact be quite flexible in detail . |
| 29 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 30 | Performance and reward imperatives may be more or less related . |