Example sentences of "it may be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be a small station and a small team , but when you 're very small yourself , it 's definitely the best station in Britain to be a train spotter . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be a small thing to them , but it is a disaster for the woman . |
| 3 | While some sufferers will quickly be restored to perfect health , for others it may be a long haul . |
| 4 | But it may be a long time coming ; and , meanwhile , the flow of hopefuls from the south shows no sign of stopping . |
| 5 | ‘ It may be a long time before you get another offer like that ! ’ |
| 6 | Everyone knows that if this time round , there is political instability , it may be a long time before Pakistan gets yet another chance at election . |
| 7 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 8 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 9 | It may be a legitimate thing for them to do , but they 're using the law purely to harass people . ’ |
| 10 | But now of course there 's Crooks and that means , not bottles of aspirins , bad example , but Strepsils the lozenges for example , are now sold in an enormous range of private pharmacies which are not Boots and they are therefore completely outside the term output , it may be a restricted term , it may not be the one we want , but that is what it was meant and that is what the number is generated from . |
| 11 | Oil is available throughout the country , so it may be a viable alternative to gas if this is unavailable ; it 's certainly cheaper to use than lpg ; and installation costs are similar . |
| 12 | Paying another nurse while you nurse yourself may sound dotty , but if both you and your relative can maintain a sense of independence and broaden your outlook on life it may be a worthwhile investment . |
| 13 | or It may be a binary number with bit-7 set ( 128 added to the number ) . |
| 14 | It may be a spoken remark from someone or just a ‘ meaningful ’ look . |
| 15 | It may be a poor substitute for human companionship , but the fact that it is a living creature who needs her and responds to her affectionate care brings a great deal of pleasure and interest into her life . |
| 16 | It may be a useful lever for getting the price down . |
| 17 | Now , while it is not a plum branch , it may be a useful stage in an ambitious manager 's career . |
| 18 | Beginning as it does , however , with birth and the very earliest development of the infant , it may be a useful starting point for an examination of those more general properties of the material artefact which are relevant to the place of objects within the general process of objectification . |
| 19 | It may be a one-woman play but it is peopled by many other characters in Shirley 's life , from the stickin-the-mud husband to the snooty neighbour . |
| 20 | I have a theory that it may be a commemorative horse-brass of William and Mary . |
| 21 | Either a point q in the b -boundary may be a regular boundary point if the space-time can be embedded in a larger space-time such that the Riemann tensor is C r and q is an interior point in , or it may be a singular boundary point if the space-time is not extendable through q in a way . |
| 22 | It may be a relevant feature of the later style of Henry James that he favours manner adverbs , and avoids adjectives . |
| 23 | Indeed the Department of the Environment issued in 1976 a code of practice aimed at the prevention and abatement of smells from animal wastes which states that ‘ in any proceedings brought because of an alleged odour nuisance it may be a relevant consideration if the company has adhered to the code of practice to the best of its ability ’ . |
| 24 | This example suggests that having such a membership should not be a pre-requisite of representativeness , but it may be a relevant factor to take into account . |
| 25 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 26 | Alternatively , it may be a symbolic address , which is converted to an actual address via some form of key transformation scheme . |
| 27 | Indeed it may be a symbolic irony that the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act has occurred in the European Year of Older People . |
| 28 | But then this feels as if it may be a transitional volume , presaging the larger-scale fiction in which Tolstaya should surely be spreading her brilliant wings . |
| 29 | Even with respect to statements made by Members in the course of parliamentary proceedings which are introduced as contextual parliamentary material it may be a nice question whether they are necessary . |
| 30 | And it may be a comforting thought to some that an Australian company is experimenting with eco-friendly coffins made of newspapers , which are cheap and biodegradable . |