Example sentences of "[pron] may be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may be some time . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm going out and I may be some time … |
| 3 | Patients can be seen at times of their choosing by nursing staff , which may be early morning before school or work , late evening or at weekends . |
| 4 | For example , during an instrument let-down you will have to maintain a rate of descent on your final approach which may be any figure up to 1000 ft/min . |
| 5 | C. Cyclamen coum Hardy cyclamen whose rounded leaves — which may be plain green , marbled grey , or silver — appear in autumn and last until late spring . |
| 6 | Here the verb used for the bequest is legare , which may be sufficient explanation , although it is not Paul 's normal usage . |
| 7 | It also , by the simple fact of providing a space in the school day where girls are separated from boys , can relieve the stresses for girls who may be suffering harassment from their male peers — in or out of the classroom . |
| 8 | Erm so if you 're getting another job obviously , you 've got to think that you may not need as much income , er if you 're taking the early retirement well obviously you may be more income dependent , and do a personal budget , going back to that pro forma , if you spend a bit of time doing a budget , you will find it beneficial . |
| 9 | In relation to the example of the headship issue , it would follow that although a woman may not hold a position of authority in the church , she may be prime minister . |
| 10 | ‘ We may be some time finding Mr Maxwell but we 'll let you know as soon as we do . ’ |
| 11 | Q : We may be improving customer service for our end users by faster delivery of ware , but what about the employee shop — we still have to wait 3–4 months sometimes for ware . |
| 12 | Er , Professor is right erm there may always be a possibility that at some time er you have to you have to recognise that there may be excess capacity in the system and I I do n't believe that the Labour party is not prepared to recognise that there may well be excess capacity in the system at some time . |
| 13 | There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region . |
| 14 | There may be neurological involvement similar to that occurring in adult acquired syphilis , but the onset is , of course , at a much younger age . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , while in legal theory there may be complete flexibility , the political reality may be quite different . |
| 16 | In girlhood , there may be complete unselfconsciousness of beauty , although the child who is encouraged too young to consider her appearance becomes precocious and vain . |
| 17 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 18 | As the right hon. Gentleman is talking about matters in which there may be joint agreement , and as he has visited Langbaurgh and Hemsworth in recent days , will he comment on the fact that both the Labour party candidates for those constituencies have invested in newly privatised industries ? |
| 19 | There may be additional rating to charged ( see Section B — ‘ NON-STANDARD CONSTRUCTION ’ ) . |
| 20 | A high proportion of affected subjects are therefore compound heterozygotes rather than homozygotes , although particular mutations may occur with a frequency of over 60% in certain populations and there may be close association with particular haplotypes , indicating that founder effect has had an important influence on the distribution of mutations across nations . |
| 21 | There may be serious lack of qualified or trained personnel , and a reduced capacity to educate their successors or replacements . |
| 22 | Vision may be good or there may be total blindness or one of any gradations in between . |
| 23 | There may be one exception : a chimera consisting of the two kringle domains of t-PA and the serine protease domain of single-chain-urokinase-type PA was found to have a 10-fold delayed in-vivo clearance with a maintained specific thrombolytic activity and a strikingly enhanced thrombolytic potency in venous and arterial thrombosis models in animals . |
| 24 | However unlikely , there may be one chance in ten thousand that security has been penetrated . |
| 25 | It is in three parts and the main physical bulk takes up at least three metres of shelf space , in addition to which there may be one metre of reference books and some local information on file or cards . |
| 26 | There may be one scheme that applies to everyone in the organisation or there may be a variety of schemes for different grades of employee . |
| 27 | There may either be a personnel officer who interviews all staff for a fairly large company , or there may be one person who will be so closely involved with the new employee that she/he seems the inevitable person to carry out the interview . |
| 28 | Although there may be one area for mountain biking . |
| 29 | There may be other research fields where this is not the case , but in chemistry , physics , and the other physical sciences , including geology , specificity in the titles of theses is the norm . |
| 30 | GABA concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus are lower than in the non-epileptogenic side , which suggests that there may be altered release or reuptake despite the relative preservation of GABA neurons . |