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

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1 Some visits may only be for convenience shopping and some for comparison .
2 If the paintings do have a value , it may only be for what they have to teach criminal psychologists .
3 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 .
4 It may also be for the benefit of the institution to state that of the patients discharged , cured and remaining in the House three were afflicted with that most excruciating complaint , the stone … the operation has been thrice successfully performed .
5 It may also be for the convenience of the House to know that , on Friday 8 November , there will be a debate on the environment , on a motion for the Adjournment of the House .
6 While a new mortgage loan may typically be for twenty-five to thirty years , societies hold a portfolio of existing mortgages at various stages of maturity .
7 This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more .
8 This leaves unit holders with vague promises of release from investments they have already been locked into for over a month — and may well be for a further two months or more .
9 For the defaults of his servants in the course of their employment , the occupier is of course liable ; he is also liable for the negligence of an independent contractor unless it is entirely collateral ; for the folly of a lawful visitor in tampering with a potentially dangerous machine provided for his amusement ; and it may well be for the misconduct of any member of his family on the premises , for he has control over them .
10 Erm , then it may well be for the benefit of Greater York that you might be looking at more than one settlement ?
11 This may well be for those of you who did in fact agree .
12 The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children .
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