Example sentences of "may be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Following the recent substantial reduction in interest rates M0 growth may be above its monitoring range in the period ahead . |
| 2 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 3 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 4 | Because the chances are that because you know more about the subject than the general reporter , to whom — this may be to you the most important part of the day , most important story of your day , to him it might be only one of four , five or six that they 're doing . |
| 5 | For example , if you have the situation where you want to put two occasionally-used machines quite close to one another , it may be to your advantage that their heights are exactly the same so the job can run across both tables . |
| 6 | I think there 's one advantage in letting the Paymaster know because he deducts tax at source , whereas your second employer may not , and it may be to your advantage to be paying tax |
| 7 | Bless our work bless us that all we do and say may be to your glory and for the sake of your kingdom guide us |
| 8 | Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think Hank realizes how devastating it may be to his mother when his book comes out , ’ Isobel went on . |
| 10 | A major part of the nurse 's role is therefore to assess how much help a patient requires and what risks there may be to his safety . |
| 11 | We ask that through Your wisdom , Alan may be to his new church : |
| 12 | It may be through their particular knowledge , abilities , experience , or contacts — or all of these . |
| 13 | This may be through its action in scavenging nitrite and thus preventing the formation of nitrite derived mutagens , or alternatively through its less specific anti-oxidant properties . |
| 14 | ‘ Nurses should be advised to resist such pressure and not be afraid to turn down any assignment which they feel may be outside their sphere of competence . |
| 15 | Pupils also benefit by experiencing another use of technology which may be outside their own experience . |
| 16 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 17 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 18 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |
| 19 | They build up in your tank , unless replaced by regular water changes , and while fish seem able to stand a steady build -up , however unpleasant it may be for them , new fish will die when introduced to higher levels . |
| 20 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , hard as it may be for you to believe , I did come for a reason . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Now it is a general rule , that no court of limited jurisdiction can give itself jurisdiction by a wrong decision on a point collateral to the merits of the case upon which the limit to its jurisdiction depends ; and however its decision may be final on all particulars , making up together that subject-matter which , if true , is within its jurisdiction , and , however necessary in many cases it may be for it to make a preliminary inquiry , whether some collateral matter be or be not within the limits , yet , upon this preliminary question , its decision must always be open to inquiry in the superior Court . ’ |
| 23 | He dropped hints that real alien implants have been discovered , but said he could n't reveal anything yet because , well , you know … … but something pretty earth-shattering may be on its way . |
| 24 | Headache may be on its own or the forerunner of other complaints ; it accompanies almost all other illnesses . |
| 25 | There are some principles upon which the discretion whether or not to award a remedy is exercised , but no public law litigant can afford to ignore the fact that usually there is no right to the remedy sought however strong his or her case may be on its merits . |
| 26 | Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold ! |
| 27 | BY the time you read this , I may be on my knees , along with millions of other Christian people , at the Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday . |
| 28 | ‘ God knows , ’ he concluded softly , ‘ some of the Duke 's blood may be on my hands . ’ |
| 29 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 30 | Saunders , who may be on his way to Aston Villa , had a curiously mixed game . |