Example sentences of "may be [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We should recognise , too , that the ability to think in highly conventional terms may be of the greatest importance to a young scientist in his work . |
| 5 | But when questions of law do arise , their determination may be of the greatest importance because of the effect that will have on subsequent cases . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 10 | In the male , the equivalent chromosome may be of the same type — an X chromosome — or it may be roughly the shape of the letter Y , in which case it is known as a Y chromosome . |
| 11 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This little-known company director , chairman of Walsham brothers , may be on the highest salary in Britain : £8 million , according to Labour Research . |
| 15 | ‘ I think that the boot may be on the other leg ! ’ |
| 16 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 17 | Will he therefore do his best to defuse the present unhappy situation and assure the people of that great continent that , although they may be on the other side of the world , they are close to the hearts of the people of the United Kingdom ? |
| 18 | ‘ He may be on the other team . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's have estimated its value at $10m-$14m , but this may be on the low side to ensure a sale . |
| 20 | IBM JOB CUT ESTIMATES MAY BE ON THE LOW SIDE |
| 21 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 22 | In the second movement Allegro con grazia Koizumi may be on the slow side in the main 5/4 theme , but he is very persuasive , and then in the central section brings out an element of fantasy . |
| 23 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 24 | FOR the first half of the year you should have plenty of attack , although you may be on the receiving end of a show of force . |
| 25 | WILLIE ANDERSON 's day-job may be with the Irish Rugby Football Union as a development officer , responsible for the northern part of the island , but his interest in his club , Dungannon , is still very strong . |
| 26 | Only part of central northern Scotland may be below the critical load for sensitive plant communities such as those around some lakes and peat bogs . |
| 27 | In some instances , the long-term benefit to the victim may be worth the short-term price , but it is a question which must be faced . |
| 28 | Orange or red nut feeders are especially attractive to siskins , but if there are squirrels around it may be worth the extra expense of a tough model such as the Gilbert squirrel-proof feeder , which has a nut basket surrounded by a mesh which will only allow the birds through . |
| 29 | The public interest would not perhaps be regarded as well served if a fully qualified solicitor was effectively deprived of the opportunity of practising his profession : this may be behind the Scottish decision of Dallas McMillan & Sinclair v Simpson ( 1988 ) SLT 454 where the covenant purported to prevent the outgoing partner from practising as a solicitor within 20 miles of the centre of Glasgow , an area in which roughly half of Scotland 's law firms were said to be located . |
| 30 | If there is ever a shadow of self pity , as I think there may be in the final verse of ‘ The Missing ’ , it is completely overshadowed by the cruel indifference and bleakness of Gunn 's other description . |