Example sentences of "[be] that [noun] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that Unix System Labs has finally cut a deal for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment , albeit through Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( UX No 384 ) , hopes are that X/Open may find light at the end of that particular tunnel too . |
| 2 | The reasons are that banks may choose to hold a different liquidity ratio ; customers may not take up all the credit on offer ; and there may be no simple liquidity ratio given the range of near money assets . |
| 3 | In these cases it may be that searches may have to rely on matches with length , shape and first letter . |
| 4 | His argument is that newspapers may be inhibited about discussing the commercial interests of their proprietors but otherwise they exercise independent judgement . |
| 5 | The other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring workers more quickly as demand picks up . |
| 6 | The rationale here is that firms may wish to preserve customer goodwill by preventing shortages . |
| 7 | Another common fear is that vegetarians may be lacking in iron or vitamin B12 . |
| 8 | ‘ My hope is that Britain may become a sort of housing laboratory , like we were the welfare state laboratory , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 10 | The most that can be done is that B may allow C to use his name to claim the money . |
| 11 | The danger after New Zealand is that players may want to leave . |
| 12 | The trouble with that is that others may not be astute as they are in identifying impending crises , and will take some convincing if a crisis is not obvious . |
| 13 | One potential criticism of the pH/pCO 2 method is that investigators may be measuring dissolved CO 2 in perfusing solution that has diffused as CO 2 gas down a mucosa to lumen concentration gradient , rather than occurring due to secreted bicarbonate ions . |
| 14 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 15 | The rationale for the inclusion of B in the money equation is that governments may finance expenditures which they are reluctant to pay for through taxes by methods which expand the money stock . |
| 16 | One of the criticisms of this approach is that data may be collected which is never used subsequently . |
| 17 | The drawback associated with this approach is that data may be held indefinitely with no use being made of it . |
| 18 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 19 | The major problem is that pupils may concentrate solely on the game aspect and also lose interest quickly . |
| 20 | The important point is that librarians may at least be aware of its existence . |
| 21 | The main reason why the long-run Phillips curve may have a negative slope is that workers may continue to suffer from money illusion in the long-run and so be prepared to accept money wage increases which fall short of the actual inflation rate . |
| 22 | An additional attraction of studying informatics is that graduates may now also achieve chartered engineer status through the British Computer Society , a body which has been nominated to register individuals with the Engineering Council . |
| 23 | Er my guess is that beards may be the same . |
| 24 | Another financial incentive is that sales may be generated by the naming of a group . |
| 25 | A major problem with imposing restrictions of this kind is that banks may find ways of getting round them . |
| 26 | The most fundamental criticism raised on educational grounds is that objectives may be suitable for training programmes but are not suitable for education . |
| 27 | The worry is that Improv may cannibalise sales of Lotus 's existing program . |
| 28 | A major difficulty with such a test is that familiarity may breed tolerance rather than contempt . |
| 29 | Hacker 's point was that women may be in a numerical majority , but they are in a cultural minority . |
| 30 | As to genius , ‘ Reynolds ’ opinion was that Genius may be taught & that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie & a Deceit , to say the least of it . |