Example sentences of "may be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who find that homosexual men make wonderful friends , may be reflecting the fact that the freedom from preoccupation with physical sex leaves the relationship wide open to a full range of shared experiences which should be enjoyed freely between heterosexual men and women too . |
| 2 | The simplest option may be to leave the debt outstanding , extend the payment terms , and take new security or a variation of security . |
| 3 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |
| 4 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |
| 5 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 6 | If there are procedures that need improvement , one reaction of the committee to a JMU report may be to ask the practice to undertake to set up or to maintain certain procedures or to change other specific arrangements . |
| 7 | It may be prolonging the snail 's life . |
| 8 | A taller order may be prolonging the life of the XJS until the X100 takes over . |
| 9 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 10 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 11 | Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected . |
| 12 | In Beyond the Pleasure Principle the position is that the pleasure principle may be serving the death instincts , which would imply that the Nirvana principle is basic to mental functioning alongside the reality principle . |
| 13 | Outgoing president Paul Scherer suggests that potential candidates may be exaggerating the pressures on the president : there are in fact no more than six Council meetings a year , and an additional monthly afternoon meeting for officers . |
| 14 | This reasoning seems slightly artificial where the essence of what is alleged is fighting , and the better course may be to charge the person fighting with assault , or affray , or both . |
| 15 | And again , ‘ people are more conscious of the widening circle of violence , involving more and more the decent , public-spirited people of the province and not just riotous bullies who may be creating the violence themselves . ’ |
| 16 | The two most important catchphrases , certainly by the 1890s , were the ‘ law of evolution ’ and what may be called the spirit of organization . |
| 17 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 18 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 19 | When demand and supply are in equilibrium , the amount of the commodity which is being produced in a unit of time may be called the equilibrium-amount , and the price at which it is being sold may be called the equilibrium-price . |
| 20 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 21 | These distinctions , highlighted in Fig. 1 , may be called the dualisms of normativism and occupy a central place in normativist thought . |
| 22 | This may be called the Principle of the Relative Independence of Sedimentation and Subsidence . |
| 23 | This may be called the Principle of the Golden Spike . |
| 24 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 25 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 26 | The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours . |
| 27 | ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) . |
| 28 | This inner ode may be called the kernel mode , in which case the intermediate ode is called the supervisor mode . |
| 29 | Such , too , was the theme that intensified in their fiction towards middle age , which may be called the agony of a lost Eden . |
| 30 | There is a catastrophic ‘ implosion ’ , which may be called the opposite of an explosion , followed by a shock-wave which literally blows the star apart in what is called a supernova outburst . |