Example sentences of "may be [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 2 | The introduction of new technology is only one aspect of problem solving in marginal areas and the desirable overall policy package may be to a substantial degree indivisible since changing one part may affect one or all of the other parts at a local , regional , national or European Economic Community ( EEC ) level . |
| 3 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 4 | A puff it may be to the deposed kings of world rugby , but the Taiwanese are taking the training stint , which will be used as a build-up to September 's Asian tournament , in deadly earnest . |
| 5 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 6 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , there are circumstances in which an employer may be under a contractual duty to provide work . |
| 8 | Where the landlord retains a roadway he may be under a positive duty to the tenant to prevent obstruction of it ( Hilton v Smith ( James ) & Sons ( Norwood ) Ltd ( 1979 ) 257 EG 1063 ) . |
| 9 | They suggest that this may be through the perceived control an individual has over his goals , as compared to that when goals are externally assigned . |
| 10 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 11 | And an artfully crafted series of graphical devices , dotted across a corporate review , may be of no informational consequence just ‘ designer confetti ’ . ’ |
| 12 | The ability to generate formalized drawings may be of a low priority ( and in some cases an unnecessary step ) in the development of that product . |
| 13 | Intervention may be of a befriending nature , offering the person the opportunity to confide , and talk through his emotions , and gently guiding him towards a reassessment of his new position in life without the person he mourns . |
| 14 | Or they may be of a different kind . |
| 15 | In each case the containing font may be of a different size , but the title will adapt . |
| 16 | The wire connecting the main unit to the solenoid valve may be of a light-duty twin type of any reasonable length . |
| 17 | ( b ) Demand for specialist work may be of an intermittent nature and the builder may have difficulty in providing the operatives with continuity of work . |
| 18 | These relations may be of the paradigmatic variety ( e.g. oppositeness , synonymy , etc. ) or they may be of the so-called paronymic sort ( that is to say , involving identity of root , but difference of syntactic category , as , for instance , with act : actor , race : racy . |
| 19 | Geographical variables , such as regions and populations , may be of the utmost significance to suppliers of such goods as delicatessen foods or skiing equipment , for example . |
| 20 | The yields concerned may be of the direct money kind , as is the case with equities and bonds , but may be implicit in the form of services or benefits received , as with owner-occupied houses . |
| 21 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 22 | The longer-term tendency may be for the joint boards to develop into fully fledged special purpose authorities . |
| 23 | Tempting as it may be for the harassed mother to jump at the chance of sending her three year old to playschool every morning , imagine the devastating effect this can have when it coincides with the arrival in the home of a brand new baby . |
| 24 | However true this may be for the economic development of the United States — and even there such contentious hypotheticals are highly dubious — it certainly can not hold good for European expansion and supremacy in the later nineteenth century . |
| 25 | It may be on a one-to-one basis or with a couple where one partner has impaired hearing . |
| 26 | The financial markets may be in retreat and the pound may be on a slippery slope , but it 's not just the insolvency practitioners and bailiffs that are doing well ; some companies in sectors as diverse as retailing , restaurants and medical equipment are also doing more than just make ends meet . |
| 27 | Its internal structuring , however , may be on a geographical basis in terms of area offices and on a client basis in terms of individual officials having a number of cases to deal with . |
| 28 | Er secondly , land could be allocated to meet a range of needs in a variety of locations and after monitoring , if we had met a certain level of job targets , those jobs may be on a limited number of sites . |
| 29 | Finally , wherever health-care reform may be on the stormy seas of the Clinton presidency , the public wants health-care reform . |
| 30 | ‘ I think that the boot may be on the other leg ! ’ |