Example sentences of "may [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may secretly be under guard in Dracula 's castle . |
| 2 | If you buy a ‘ Rolex ’ watch for £50 , you know it 's unlikely to be genuine , but what you would n't know is that it may only be worth £5 . |
| 3 | This lack of interest may only be on the part of one partner . |
| 4 | Otherwise , rejection may only be on the ground of infringement of ‘ sovereignty or security ’ ; neither a claim to exclusive jurisdiction by the state of destination over the subject-matter with which the document deals , nor the fact that no cause of action would exist under the law of that state is a proper ground for rejection . |
| 5 | Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison . |
| 6 | If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists . |
| 7 | If the Strauss/Liszt/Mendelssohn disc preserves some kind of logic in its programming , another release featuring miscellaneous items ( ) unfortunately has the appearance of being cobbled together , and as such may only be of real interest to the avid Klemperer fan . |
| 8 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 9 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 10 | They last between half and two seconds and while their amplitude may only be in the region of 50 microvolts , they may be as large as 250 microvolts from peak to trough ( see Fig. 2.6 ) . |
| 11 | Far more pupils are taken on than can hope to succeed in practice , and if you have not been able to impress any barrister sufficiently with your qualities to be taken on , it may perhaps be for the best that you are forced to look to a different career at this juncture . |
| 12 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 13 | It may thus be of value in controlling outlays for ‘ socially responsible ’ purposes , or , conceivably , on a limited range projects motivated by management self-interest , for example , the acquisition of an over-lavish corporate headquarters . |
| 14 | Contrary to what had been suggested by a previous report , the SeHCAT test may thus be of value also in cholecystectomised patients . |
| 15 | Lactoferrin may thus be of great importance as a non-specific anti-phlogistic defence factor at the primary immunological barriers . |
| 16 | Ideas and concepts may thus be in fact misleading as to the real condition of existence ; they are not the reflection of the economic system but the product of a complex historical process of changing adaptation . |
| 17 | ‘ If there was somewhere you might stay in the meanwhile , I may shortly be in a position to help you . ’ |
| 18 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 19 | The competition may already be at it . |
| 20 | Quite apart from the political fallout , there is the nagging worry that the economy may already be on the brink of recession . |
| 21 | It is believed intelligence services have discovered that at least two ‘ mainline bombers ’ are missing from their normal haunts and may already be on the mainland . |
| 22 | These spaces will overwrite any characters which may already be on the screen . |
| 23 | Next time you come up with a hypothetical outer limit of inanity , better check with Washington before publishing ; it may already be in effect . |
| 24 | Automatic Teller Machine ( ATM ) cards , or other forms of plastic which may already be in your pocket , cost less and serve just as well , provided you do not stray too far from the beaten track . |
| 25 | By the time we realise the danger , large amounts of pollutants may already be in an aquifer . |
| 26 | At this time of year the process of decaying old vegetation will also deplete oxygen when it may already be in short supply . |
| 27 | Even though much of this information may already be in electronic form , retrieving the correct document from a database is not simple . |
| 28 | And Hugh Beringar may already be in Worcester , and will know what has happened . |
| 29 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 30 | ‘ It may just be worth running the risk of needing a repair . ’ |