Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saint I may be but schmuck I ai n't . |
| 2 | Working girl she may be but , having turned 40 , Sigourney Weaver ( right ) took time out for motherhood |
| 3 | I can only speak for London Branch , socialites we may be but professional fund-raisers ? |
| 4 | As Walzer has said , ‘ however useful we may be or want to be our usefulness is not organised or given expression within the political community . |
| 5 | Stupid they may be but not lacking in guile . |
| 6 | Volunteers they may be but highly expert lifeboatmen they are determined to remain . ’ |
| 7 | We should consider also , that if they do exist then they may be but a part of a much larger pattern which stretches not only access the tiny and remote areas of south-western France but across western Europe and possibly other parts of the world . |
| 8 | Ghosts they may be but they bring back memories of broken hearts , foul deeds , sinister minds , and souls stained with the blackness of hell . |
| 9 | Lucrative for the clubs they may be but the omens for their success are not good . |
| 10 | Bleeders , buggers and sods they may be before they arrive but , once they 're there , it 's her lap that they always land on . |
| 11 | Their system " seeks to give effect to the wishes of every voter , whatever they may be and whether they have anything to do with party or not " . |
| 12 | They may be as bit a leap forward as the original K-SB3 . |
| 13 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 14 | One reason to think it may is that the new agreements have turned national tariff-cutting programmes into international commitments . |
| 15 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 16 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 17 | Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous . |
| 18 | And it may be that Justin , too , has more to say , from beyond the grave . |
| 19 | It may be that Larkin 's poem and the person we meet there participate in the ventriloquism of Amis 's novel . |
| 20 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 21 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 22 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 23 | It may be that in the protestant — loyalist case this ethnic tendency may have priority over the British component of identity or be in conflict with it . |
| 24 | And while it may be that the tragic case of the disappearing baronet is one that appears to defy all logic , it is not a case that defies the world 's greatest detective . |
| 25 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 26 | It may be that you choose to obtain a mortgage , second mortgage or a loan from a bank . |
| 27 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 28 | First , it may be that no one ( as yet ) has made the critical observations which would allow the pattern to become evident . |
| 29 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 30 | This may be coincidence , or it may be that the star system in French intellectual culture requires its major performers to be visibly on stage . |