Example sentences of "may be [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply means they promise anything to get you off the phone , so keep your fingers crossed or you may be staying here more than one night . ’ |
| 2 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 3 | Kossen also says that these characteristics can be learned and developed , thereby suggesting that leaders may be made as well as born . |
| 4 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 5 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 6 | This aspect of option premiums may be seen more clearly if we look at calls and puts with the same exercise price but with different expiry dates . |
| 7 | Information stored may be accessed more rapidly than on floppy disks and far greater amounts of data may be stored , typically 20M as opposed to 1.2M for a floppy disk . |
| 8 | These contradictions between GCSE and records of achievement may be explained quite simply since they reflect a fundamental tension in the purpose of school assessment itself . |
| 9 | The comment may be continued over more than one line , and in order for the header to scan successfully , the files and the module header file must be on the same account . |
| 10 | Translated into market terms , this means that the labour power capable of performing the process may be purchased more cheaply as dissociated elements than as a capacity integrated in a single worker ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 81–82 ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ force ’ facility may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and has then passed it on to someone else . |
| 12 | This is done using option 3.8.0 , Force User to Accept SPR , and may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and then wishes to pass it to someone else . |
| 13 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 14 | On a national scale , the numerically and financially important small hotel businesses , which play a vital role in the provision of the national stock of tourist accommodation may be performing less well than they could . |
| 15 | hang on to somebody elses tail lights , it gives us a false sense of security watch your speed , you may be going much faster than you think , do not speed up to get away from the vehicle which is too close behind you , remember that if you 're driving with heavy people it may take longer to pull up and speed on ahead , warning signals or |
| 16 | Cars may be taken as far as the Hall and , with permission , parked there , a concession especially appreciated when returning . |