Example sentences of "may [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now , you may be desperate to see some life in the aquarium . |
| 2 | Such a task is clearly beyond the scope of this report , but it may be instructive to describe two schools in some depth . |
| 3 | Even though the problem shows that the full crime was consummated , the culprits may be convicted of attempt or incitement , so that it may be relevant to mention these crimes — though normally , of course , the indictment would be for the completed crime , not for a mere attempt or incitement . |
| 4 | More seriously , it may be anachronistic to highlight one man as the unit for study — for it could be argued that " the individual " had not yet been discovered . |
| 5 | The expression " by post " includes ordinary post , though it may be preferable to use first class . |
| 6 | It may be helpful to attend six meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to see how close is the identification with acknowledged sufferers . |
| 7 | This paper should have suggested many lines of worthwhile investigation , and observations of real populations on the shore will undoubtedly throw up others , but it may be helpful to list some topics here . |
| 8 | Miller comments that in the case of children with learning difficulties , including mentally handicapped children , it may be helpful to calculate mental age using a development test or a standardised test of intelligence and to compare the MLU predicted by chronological age with that predicted using the child 's mental age . |
| 9 | In order to confront the denial system of the sufferer , but at the same time not cause it to be so aroused as to be counter productive , it may be helpful to avoid specific terms such as " alcoholic " , " drug addict " , " anorexic " , " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " anorexia " and substitute a phrase such as " stress and depression and problems with alcohol ( or drugs or food etc ) " or simply " problems in your life " . |
| 10 | Because the basis for making comparisons is not always made explicit , it may be helpful to discuss two kinds of descriptive framework which are frequently employed in assessment procedures . |
| 11 | In order to appreciate what experiential learning is , it may be helpful to consider three types of knowledge ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 12 | The cost of travel to the place of trial will also be relevant ; in an extreme case , the expense of the plaintiff 's own journey to the only available forum might exceed the value of the claim , though in other cases legal aid may be available to cover those costs . |
| 13 | In the absence of a good history it may be impossible to differentiate this syndrome from the early stages of a severe primary infection . |
| 14 | It may be impractical to have local authorities of different sizes for each and every local public good that any locality may provide . |
| 15 | One should not endeavour to place boundaries around physical geography too firmly but an idea of the frontier zone with other disciplines may be essential to shape future developments . |
| 16 | However , while it may be legitimate to calculate such indices upon the basis of known population figures , it is highly problematic to construct future projections of the ratios as they rest upon assumptions about future patterns of fertility which are almost impossible to predict . |
| 17 | If so , it may be possible to include specific provisions to prevent them recurring . |
| 18 | It may be possible to devise some kind of training programme for certain difficulties to achieve this effect . |
| 19 | As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms . |
| 20 | If , at some point , a legal reform , a ‘ crackdown ’ or a relatively abrupt social change , X , takes place , we have It may be possible to use this pattern sometimes called an interrupted time series to measure the effect of X , if any . |
| 21 | However , it may be possible to use this dependence to form the basis for short-term predictions of future behaviour . |
| 22 | Furthermore , by isolating amplification products contained on partially overlapping restriction fragments , it may be possible to use repeated rounds of IRS-PCR amplification to march along contiguous restriction fragments . |
| 23 | Moreover , if the approximate position on a chromosome is also known , it may be possible to split that region if an appropriate unequal reciprocal translocation is available . |
| 24 | That is to say , it may be possible to give powerful functionalist explanations of linguistic phenomena by reference to pragmatic principles . |
| 25 | It may be possible to target specific phonemes to assess articulation but the child 's performance is likely to be somewhat better than during spontaneous speech . |
| 26 | The experiments show that this seems to depend both on temperature and pressure , but other experiments show different results ; when these matters are fully resolved then it may be possible to design experimental circumstances where optimal fusion occurs . |
| 27 | In particular it may be possible to issue common form probate without the need for any court procedure . |
| 28 | But one of the problems with attacking Trust , I mean it may be possible to envisage some sort of modified Trust with some local input at some stage without the contracting apparatus . |
| 29 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 30 | Investigation of this ‘ crosstalk ’ between receptors may prove difficult in HGT-1 cells because muscarinic cholinergic and gastric recetor have not been detected ( McKenna et al , unpublished data ) , although it may be possible to induce cholinergic receptors by culturing the cells with butyrate ( J P Bali , personal communication ) . |