Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one of them may be the sort of book you feel you are best fitted to write . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ he said disarmingly , ‘ I may be the devil , but I do n't drink and I 've been married to the same woman for 40 years , so I ca n't be that bad . ’ |
| 3 | With one friend you may be the epitome of patient listening , with another the garrulous fool . |
| 4 | ‘ You may be the King 's Clerk , Master Corbett , but this is a convent building . |
| 5 | You may be the kind of person who finds it easier to have sex than to talk about it , whether with new or regular partners . |
| 6 | What is certain is that , although a lot of ‘ experts ’ are ready to tell you what to do — and you may be the kind of gardener who merely wants a set of step-by-step instructions — the point entirely missing is that it is you , and only you , who has to use your judgement and make the decisions . |
| 7 | If you let the past dictate the present and prejudice your quality of life , then you may be the loser . |
| 8 | According to Thietmar of Merseburg , Emma was in London during the siege of 1016 , and she may be the lady referred to in the poem LiDsmannaflokkr . |
| 9 | She may be the bird for which some wicked fowler will spread his snares . |
| 10 | We may be the underdogs , but we 're gon na fight like pit bulls . ’ |
| 11 | Intellectually , we may be the victims of wrong thinking . |
| 12 | We may be the wrinklies but we |
| 13 | ( Note : names of persons , bodies and places may be included in the main thesaurus , or they may be the subject of a distinct authority list . ) |
| 14 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 15 | They may be the clew to reveal to you what you did n't think you wanted to say . |
| 16 | Talk to your doctor about these — they may be the result of anxiety and stress . |
| 17 | They may be the result of such factors as speaker variation , temporal variation , or a noisy environment . |
| 18 | For some they may be the difference between being capped and not being capped . ’ |
| 19 | You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing . |
| 20 | It may be the approach of the atheist for whom the whole of life is meaningless ; it may be the approach of the over-spiritualizing theist for whom this world is irrelevant . |
| 21 | It may be the approach of the atheist for whom the whole of life is meaningless ; it may be the approach of the over-spiritualizing theist for whom this world is irrelevant . |
| 22 | We can add that it may be the effects of network strength that maintain this relative consistency . |
| 23 | For example , the adverb well in He speaks well of you may be equivalent to an adverb in French Il a très bien parlé de vous or it may be the equivalent of a noun , Il a dit du bien de vous . |
| 24 | It may be the case , as Honderich states , that the Conservative notion of ‘ intellectual imperfection ’ — the idea that people 's rational faculties are necessarily inadequate to grasp the complexities of social development , and that there are dangers in using abstract reasoning as a guide for social and political behaviour — does not mean , as some Conservatives have claimed , that Conservatism is atheoretical . |
| 25 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 26 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 27 | This meant a redistribution of income in the rural sector from the wealthy to the permanent workers , though it may be the case that there was a widening differential in incomes between permanent and temporary workers . |
| 28 | It may be the case that such schemes can not operate unless some people make a substantial sacrifice for them . |
| 29 | Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language . |
| 30 | It may be the case that experienced instructors choose not to use the text pages . |