Example sentences of "may be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naval midshipmen , like their counterparts in the merchant service , may be authentically involved in vigorous , violent action in fiction , as they were in fact , at least until the recent past . |
| 2 | America 's junk-bond market refuses to die , though some of the returning life in it may be strictly temporary |
| 3 | The viewer may be physically absent , but remains psychologically present . |
| 4 | Cases range from the severely handicapped person who may be physically helpless and incapable of coherent speech , to the highly acceptable , responsible person , earning a living , looking after themselves , obtaining considerable enjoyment from life and from relationships but generally regarded as not very bright . |
| 5 | Although the person suffering from the disorder may be physically fit , the deterioration of the brain 's function leads to very distressing and anti-social behaviour at times . |
| 6 | A physically disabled or ill person or a frail elderly person are obvious examples of people who may be physically unable to avoid accidental injury in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | They may have a strong urge to provide care which they can not translate into reality , and they may be acutely uneasy as a result . |
| 8 | While some may be mostly straightforward logs , hedges , rails etc. , others may include ditches , water , steps , drops etc. , which may be off-putting for the beginner . |
| 9 | For example , the hands or even the figures on the dial of a wall-mounted clock may be clearly visible to the child with tunnel vision , but the problem could be that of locating the clock itself . |
| 10 | In freshly felled wood the moisture content varies but may be over 100 per cent of the weight of the dry wood substance . |
| 11 | The Spinal Tap film may be over ten years old but the traits which it parodies still seem to be very much in evidence today . |
| 12 | By contrast , BR 's Intercity services attain much higher commercial speeds and , where High Speed Trains are used , average speeds may be over 160 km per hour . |
| 13 | In one of our satellite towns with a typical population of 10,000 , 2,000 may be over 65 . |
| 14 | It may be overly cynical to suggest two things . |
| 15 | The horse will be unpredictable , and from the handler 's point of view it may be downright dangerous ! |
| 16 | Unless you 've taken good care of your windows over the years , they are probably looking a little peaky — and may be downright poorly . |
| 17 | I may be downright wicked . |
| 18 | Similarly , the morphology of the Himalayan orogen , in particular that of the Tibetan Plateau , may be partly attributable to the accretion of small crustal fragments prior to the main collision between India and Eurasia . |
| 19 | This may be partly due to its isolated geographical position , which has helped to give the country its intense feeling of national uniqueness , and its deep conservatism . |
| 20 | This may be partly due to the type of food eaten . |
| 21 | This may be partly due to the fact that in the UK , young parents of today are less aware of the seriousness of some of the diseases as Sieving ( 1988 ) points out in her discussion of the ravages of measles in developing countries . |
| 22 | Overall differences , which have been found in other studies , may be partly due to black people tending to live in areas of social deprivation . |
| 23 | This may be partly due to the fact that teacher training for further education in the Principality revolves almost entirely around the University of Wales , which also validates all courses for the professional training of teachers , including those for primary and secondary schools . |
| 24 | The effect of parity on infant mortality may be partly due to the association of parity with birth weight and to the association of the latter with mortality ( see the next section ) . |
| 25 | This may be partly due to the fact that , births to young teenagers being exceptional in many populations , not all countries reported separate data for the under 15 maternal age group . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , I think you may be partly right about that ending . ’ |
| 27 | However that same landlord may be introducing tube wells , tractors and high-yielding varieties of seeds , and therefore wish to get rid of the large number of inefficient workers to whom he may be partly responsible for housing , clothing , looking after their aged or sick , and also to whom a sizeable proportion of the additional benefit from these improved inputs would accrue . |
| 28 | Funding restrictions may be partly responsible for these absences , but they also reflect the mental health system 's capacity to resist new responses to mental distress . |
| 29 | And while Western influences may be partly responsible for some more flexible attitudes towards education , rote learning and recitation are still primary in Chinese schools . |
| 30 | Because one or more non-ethanolic components of the beverages are responsible for the release of gastric acid and gastrin it is possible that they may be partly responsible for the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse . |