Example sentences of "may be [noun] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the matter is one the direct outcome of which may be trial of the applicant and his possible punishment for an alleged offence by a court claiming jurisdiction to do so , the matter is criminal . |
| 2 | Various paramedical staff may be members of the team , commonly the physiotherapist and dietician , although others may be involved . |
| 3 | In addition to the skin lesions there may be involvement of the liver and spleen , the bones and eyes , and occasionally the central nervous system with a syphilitic meningitis . |
| 4 | In the case of the fry remaining with the parents this may be particles of the adult 's food . |
| 5 | ( It is possible that there may be areas of the Universe where antimatter galaxies , stars , planets and even life exist , but we have no evidence of this . ) |
| 6 | There may be areas of the garden which are specially suitable for the patient to work in : he needs to be able to reach the soil with his hands or tools without risking scratching himself on thorny plants or hitting his head or eyes on jutting or overhanging branches . |
| 7 | While the members may be delegates of the member States , the administrative officers were independent and exclusively international employees of the Council . |
| 8 | And yet this may be part of the price which has to be paid if a larger population is to survive . |
| 9 | Further investigation suggests that while that may be part of the story it is almost certainly not all of it . |
| 10 | Restrictions on and beliefs about language may be part of the construction of gender rather than a simple reflection of it . |
| 11 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
| 12 | This may be part of the explanation in Britain , where there has been some improvement in the potential of the economy . |
| 13 | This may be part of the leader 's secret history with God . |
| 14 | More successful education about birth control measures and more approachable advisory services may be part of the answer , but many unwanted pregnancies seem to occur among experienced contraceptors who give up without specifically wishing to become pregnant ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | When the L4 emerge there may be ulceration of the mucosa . |
| 16 | Mr Major may be chancellor of the exchequer but he is also the member of Parliament for Huntingdon and is on most short-lists to succeed Mrs Thatcher as Tory leader . |
| 17 | ‘ Denial ’ and ‘ distancing ’ may be features of the victim 's attitude in the early stages , which may make it difficult to maintain a sympathetic response . |
| 18 | The impulses to seek general organ pleasure which all human beings experience may be derivatives of the species-need for reproduction . |
| 19 | And the central reasons for rejecting the ‘ humanist ’ paradigm of the self — as I have outlined it above — are , firstly , that there may be aspects of the development of self which are not easily accessible to consciousness , and secondly , that there are conscious experiences which are not easy to make intelligible within the humanist paradigm . |
| 20 | Some residents may be employees of the government or invest in its securities . |