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

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1 But perhaps it may regretfully be time to demolish our bothies — their unique charm and tradition destroyed by the greedy — another casualty like that on the consciences of the cairnbuilding , memorial erecting , road bulldozing and ‘ 100 best walks ’ brigade .
2 It may only be coincidence that the window cleaners were around last weekend when this incident occurred .
3 These tactics may only be threats , but in the Philippines ’ disappearances ’ are becoming all too common .
4 The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) .
5 Electronic records may only be proto-records because they require numerous mechanisms to make them accessible .
6 If he leaves all to his wife on his death there may only be duty on the £1M non-qualifying assets on his widow 's death .
7 On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him .
8 I use the word ‘ true ’ to express the notion that consent , or refusal of consent , may be inoperative in law for one of three reasons ; there may perhaps be others , but only these three are relevant to the present case .
9 There may perhaps be properties which are evidence-transcendent , by which we mean that it is always possible that they be absent even though we have the best possible evidence of their presence .
10 What the Middle English poet has to say , in essence , is that in the war between God and Satan for men 's souls , there may perhaps be neutrals .
11 The provisions which permit the confiscation of the literary proceeds of crime may do little to prevent this kind of journalism , which is arguably more repugnant than the profits made by offenders who may merely be pawns in a ratings or circulation war .
12 And , as any successful enterprise will expand , there may soon be pressure to extend the premises , damaging the character of the place in the process .
13 Where there is no dispute about this there may nevertheless be disagreement as to the nature and level of service to be provided .
14 OLD people who need treatment for heart conditions may just be computer statistics to hospital bosses — but think how important they are to their families and of the contribution they have made to this country .
15 ‘ There may still be hope — ’
16 There may still be guns hidden in flats .
17 The terraces may still be 100pc Protestant but they 're also 100pc behind their newly-cosmopolitan side .
18 However , even when this is achieved , there may still be problems in interpreting what this information means .
19 Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle .
20 Recent changes in the party system , however , suggest that there may still be situations in which it may be necessary for the Prerogative of appointment to be exercised in accordance with the independent judgment of the Queen and her advisers .
21 There may still be disintermediation .
22 There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild .
23 There may still be time before they get to him … why do n't you have another go at persuading him ?
24 Or rather , he holds that all the great goods of which we know involve consciousness ; there may conceivably be others of which we are ignorant .
25 Adorno 's criteria force him to see , for example , blue notes as ‘ distortions ’ , pseudo-individual embellishments of ‘ correct ’ pitches ; but blue notes may conceivably be part of a different pitch system with its own correctness .
26 There may conceivably be cases where it is all right for someone willingly to allow themselves to be treated as a means .
27 Under the influence of its Enlightenment men the American constitution may formally be secularist , but the history of America demonstrates that it is the most religious continent in the Western world .
28 I was wondering I mean there may possibly be differences between I mean there was the format that speech generate of the H P and the format that the Sun would use .
29 Hence , different experiments may not be directly comparable , and there may similarly be difficulties of comparison between experiment and theory .
30 It is unfair ( and may also be sex discrimination ) to dismiss a woman because she is pregnant , or for any other reason connected with her pregnancy , unless :
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