Example sentences of "[pron] may [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 2 | It may be suspected that issues on which there would be widespread local resistance , but where a party political split is not clearly in evidence , rarely hit the news headlines because they are quietly negotiated in private discussions between the minister , or civil servants , and the local authority associations . |
| 3 | While the idea of the two-stage revolution : liberation first , communism later : could be described as primitive Leninism , it may be seen that Ho 's approach to Communism was also two-track : town and country : not necessarily in that order : and his Revolutionary Youth League also functioned on two levels : the mass nationalist party and the inner core of Tam Tam Xa hotheads who were to be the nucleus of a future communist party . |
| 4 | It may be noted that Wagner 's ( 1976 ) theory makes the same prediction . |
| 5 | It may be noted that tracheae do not precede the cross-veins of the adult wing and that the tracheal and venational patterns sometimes differ appreciably . |
| 6 | ( It may be noted that erection can occur in younger — sometimes much younger — boys ; but it has not the Same significance . ) |
| 7 | And it may be noted that Holman draws on psychological research to emphasise the adverse effects on children of separation from their parents , of the failure to develop relationships at all , and of disruptive family relationships . |
| 8 | It may be noted that savings depend on expectations concerning the interest rate in the next period . |
| 9 | At the conclusion of this section , it may be noted that Ferrari and Ibañez ( 1988 ) have shown that the shear-free principal null congruences associated with this type D space-time do not focus on the horizon . |
| 10 | It may be noted that practices set up outside England and Wales are exempt from the provisions of r5 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 which prevents solicitors from offering certain legal services in a capacity other than that of a practising solicitor . |
| 11 | In passing it may be observed that journeymen and apprentices were seldom specified , although this must have been the status of many of the servants that were listed . |
| 12 | It may be observed that equations of the form x = q + Fx arise naturally in some dynamical or quasi-static problems , e.g. the distortion of a structure under applied load , when the load is varied by the distortion . |
| 13 | It may be accepted that Althusser is describing science by its theoretical practice , its ‘ labour of theoretical transformation ’ , but this is not adequate to distinguish it from ideology as a practice . |
| 14 | It may be noticed that S contains the term ( 10.33 ) which includes the terms ( 7.10 ) that , with ( 7.8 ) , are required to ensure that is continuous across the boundaries of region IV . |
| 15 | It may be recalled that Lanfranc 's doubt about the sanctity of Elphege arose from lack of information about the circumstances of his death . |
| 16 | As for British Steel 's monolith , at least it still stands to give a little reassurance against Teesside 's depression and unemployment ; it may be recalled that Teesside steel made North-Eastern strength . |
| 17 | It is perhaps disappointing to note that over a quarter of the total sample fell into this latter category , and it may be emphasized that staff in libraries of all sizes have training needs . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 19 | From some authors it may be assumed that pluralism represents an especially naive set of propositions about how political power is perfectly , or nearly perfectly , distributed within Western liberal democracies . |
| 20 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
| 21 | When one recollects that bequests were made in the hope of securing the prayers of beneficiaries for the donor 's soul , it may be assumed that bridges , and also roads , were in sufficient use for such gifts to be regarded as a good piece of spiritual investment . |
| 22 | As other factors may influence company returns it may be assumed that beta is not a measure of total risk . |
| 23 | Thus it may be argued that managers are more important than routine office staff since the latter are dependent on direction and organization from management . |
| 24 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 25 | It may be argued that fundholding allows us to discharge these responsibilities ourselves in respect of our own practice population , and that we are capable of doing the job better than a large purchasing authority . |
| 26 | Yet it may be argued that part of the process was a search for the open sea which France had been denied until the early years of the thirteenth century , and that the desire to win control of the peripheral duchies of Aquitaine , Brittany and Normandy was but an aspect of a wider policy which included an ambition to have access to , and control of , the ports on the Atlantic , Mediterranean and Channel coasts for military as well as for commercial reasons . |
| 27 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 28 | While it may be argued that unreasonableness and bad faith do not require separate treatment , the present category of fairness is a relatively new addition to the control devices used by the courts . |
| 29 | It may be argued that sexuality has a certain uniqueness which is absent from much property : sexuality is an intrinsic part of one 's personality , it is a mode of expressing that personality in relation to others , and it is therefore fundamental that one should be able to choose whether to express oneself in this way — and , if so , towards and with whom . |
| 30 | The problem of fume cupboards is a sensitive area and it may be argued that health and safety considerations are in conflict with energy efficiency . |