Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [be] [adj] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be amazed that such an obvious shortcoming to a staff plan should have continued to escape my notice , but then you will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time ; one is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event . |
| 2 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 3 | They may be unaware that some bureaux can arrange home visits . |
| 4 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 5 | It may be arguable that some part of the substance used does attach to the article cleaned , even if the rest is rinsed off , so that ownership in that part passes by adhesion to the article . |
| 6 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 7 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 8 | It may be true that some dictionaries are more suitable for language processing than others , but such distinctions should not be based on size alone . |
| 9 | Indeed , it may be true that most of the great floodplains of the world have been formed by aggradation provoked by the Post-glacial rise in sea level and not by the erosional method outlined in the discussion of the Davisian cycle ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 11 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |