Example sentences of "may [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short statement of the definition would be this : grammar deals with closed system choices which may be between items ( this , that , he , she , we ) or between categories ( singular , plural ; past , present , future ) ; lexis is concerned with open set choices , which are always between items ( chair , bench , seat , stool ) . |
| 2 | After all , when one recognizes the different types of interrelationships which can exist , the linkages may be between SBUs in quite different industries . |
| 3 | In principle the choices may be between people , objects , events , processes or structures . |
| 4 | whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing . |
| 5 | Wittgenstein refers to ‘ the idea that language always functions in one way , always serves the same purpose : to convey thoughts — which may be about houses , pains , good and evil , or anything else you please . ’ |
| 6 | Whatever perplexities there may be about ontology ( that is , about the nature of the reality described ) there is no perplexity whatever about the procedures . |
| 7 | The question , however , may be about control as much as learning . |
| 8 | Bullfighting may be about grace and beauty , a poetic dance between man and beast , but it all comes down to the kill . |
| 9 | Whatever doubts there may be about Edward 's commitment to crusade , none can be entertained of John XXII's , for he did all that he could to bring England to a state of peace and Edward to the point of departure . |
| 10 | We will print three thousand of these may be per year |
| 11 | Monetary policy may be off target . |
| 12 | So , if you are not aware of your environment and purposeful in your movements you may be off balance ; this will cause many of your muscles needlessly to work harder . |
| 13 | In some areas urban pressure on the periphery creates additional problems because expansion may be into areas of considerable landscape value . |
| 14 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 15 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 16 | As a result the deictic/non-deictic ambiguity is very general , and plagues the recipients of expressions like : ( 80 ) Bob is the man to the left of Mark where Bob may be to Mark 's own left ( non-deictic ) , or to the left from the speaker 's point of view ( deictic ) . |
| 17 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 18 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 19 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 20 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 21 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 22 | An individual may be under stress from a variety of factors , possibly both internal and external , but is able to cope and is strong enough to keep the system in balance , but only just . |
| 23 | She may be under stress and reacting with a tantrum . |
| 24 | But reference to liability is valuable in that it emphasises that shareholders qua members may be under obligations to the company as well as having rights against it . |
| 25 | Certain institutions may be under threat ( as subsequent chapters will show ) but not in a manner inconsistent with the existing political culture . |
| 26 | ELECTRICITY giants Powergen say the future of a controversial coal terminal at Bootle may be under threat if proposals for new operating conditions are upheld . |
| 27 | Oxfords financial fortunes may be under scrutiny . |
| 28 | In a monetarized regime , the individual may be under obligation to a far larger range of people than was hitherto possible , through mortgages , tax systems and so on ; but these obligations are almost entirely anonymous . |
| 29 | A release may be under seal or by accord and satisfaction . |
| 30 | Leave the area southbound or you may be under arrest . ’ |