Example sentences of "may [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be Africa , and life may be cheap by comparison with that in the Western world , but just try to imagine this happening at Twickenham or Cardiff Arms Park : as the car park revelry goes on late into the night a youth slips into an official marquee and steals some equipment from it . |
| 2 | Other changes in reporting may be due to shifts in public perceptions of police attitudes towards specific crimes . |
| 3 | Inconsistencies in the results of previous studies may be due to variations in the level of symptom recall , patient complaint , or consultation with medical practitioners and type of investigation performed on the various study populations . |
| 4 | The purchaser may be seeking to ensure that invoices are not raised pre-acquisition for deliveries to be made post-acquisition and also to ensure that full account is taken of any potential refunds etc which may be due to customers as a result of estimated prices being used . |
| 5 | differences in performance may be due to changes in technology ; |
| 6 | Many cases of childhood eczema may be due to allergy to cow 's milk , but some 50 per cent or so may clear up quite spontaneously , without any change in diet . |
| 7 | Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance . |
| 8 | Firstly , studies comparing salmeterol 50 µg twice daily with salbutamol 200 µg four times a day are not comparing equi–effective doses and differences between the two drugs may be due to differences in dose rather than differences in drug . |
| 9 | The lack of notching of these , therefore , may be due to lack of time . |
| 10 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 11 | Additional sub-bands in the control ( 0 ) lane , may be due to polymorphism in the C57Bl/6-SJL background of the Long 12 transgenic . |
| 12 | This improvement may be due to vasodilation of the ventilated zones of the lung inducing a ‘ pulmonary steal ’ of blood away from hypoxic vasoconstricted zones with low ventilation/µperfusion ratio . |
| 13 | Variations in laser Doppler readings between different measurement sites within a given patient may be due to heterogeneity of flow or to factors degrading the reproducibility of measurements . |
| 14 | Loss of energy , a growing fatigue and physical deterioration may be due to breakdown of the body 's own RNA and DNA , encouraged by high level stress . |
| 15 | Some research in this area seems to indicate that this may be due to perception of the father as the more powerful figure ( according to the classic structure of our society ) , with the result of greater ambiguity in seeing the mother as a desirable model for identification . |
| 16 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 17 | At least some of these errors may be due in part to individual differences in dialect and incorrect pronunciation , but these four examples were produced in response to correctly spoken words in a spelling test . |
| 18 | Year-to-year variations may be due in part to variations in precipitation ( e.g. the drought of 1988 and associated increase in windblown dust ) , volcanic activity ( e.g. Mount St Helens in 1980 ) and wildfires ( e.g. Yellowstone forest fires in 1988 ) . |
| 19 | This may be due in part to the fact that women in developing countries tend to achieve second or third parity at much younger ages than is the case in developed regions . |
| 20 | The decrease in numbers may be due in part to the transfer of readers to the Scottish Science Library as its services have become better known . |
| 21 | The reason why the coal is so " clean " is unclear , but may be due in part to the very wet conditions in the region over the millions of years during which the coal was formed . |
| 22 | Structures may be mental in terms of team spirit or political aims . |
| 23 | ( Similarly geometrical shapes or relations may be interdefinable in terms of their necessary relations and yet each , in principle , be displayable to ‘ spatial intuition ’ . ) |
| 24 | At almost 50 , he may be nearer in age to Mother Teresa than New Kids On The Block , but he can still drive the pubescent in all of us wild . |
| 25 | Several other abnormalities have been described which may be relevant with respect to elevated blood pressure in diabetics . |
| 26 | Right One of the things that er we try to pass on is that you 'll pick up a lot of information which may not be relevant to you but may be relevant to members of your family or friends . |
| 27 | For example , glycosylated proteins which are unsuitable for display on filamentous bacteriophage may be amenable to selection in a retroviral display system . |
| 28 | Patients developing tolerance to adenosine-mediated protection because of recurrent anginal episodes may be amenable to preconditioning with either a muscarinic or an adrenergic agonist depending on the level in the signalling pathway at which tolerance occurs . |
| 29 | Furthermore , at a disaggregated level corresponding to where collective bargaining is actually conducted in most countries , unions may be well-organised in spite of an overall low average density ( e.g. in the USA 70–80 per cent in some areas of employment ) . |
| 30 | Provocative dress and casual promiscuity ( which are by no means the same thing ) may be abhorrent to juries in the southern states of America or to judges in this country . |