Example sentences of "is that [det] [noun] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rationale is that such behaviour may make life intolerable ; and that , if indeed it does , the offended partner is entitled to say that the marriage has broken down . |
| 2 | One obvious problem is that such imagery may lead us to undervalue the significance of the impersonal , particularly if we treat it somehow as the valueless first rung on the ladder of being . |
| 3 | The essence of such a tenancy is that either party may determine it at will . |
| 4 | One possibility under consideration is that this assessment may take the form of a project or assignment to be completed by the candidate . |
| 5 | are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station . |
| 6 | The irony is that this victory may contain the seeds of eventual defeat . |
| 7 | What is worrying is that these countries may serve as reservoirs of infection should any of the richer countries ever get on top of their own VD problem . |