Example sentences of "may [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if the customer is adamant that you must go and you can not be fitted into another niche where you would have no contact with him , you may be vulnerable to dismissal . |
| 2 | Disadvantages are a flimsy tool shelf below the table , and a sliding fence that may be vulnerable to breakage . |
| 3 | However , thirdly , a natural monopolist may be vulnerable to entry even when charging average cost and being perfectly efficient . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , it may be sobering for the European governments considering stockpiles that the private sector has already beaten them to it — and that the stores of the materials themselves are tantalisingly close to the industries that , some day , may be desperate for supplies . |
| 5 | It may be Africa , and life may be cheap by comparison with that in the Western world , but just try to imagine this happening at Twickenham or Cardiff Arms Park : as the car park revelry goes on late into the night a youth slips into an official marquee and steals some equipment from it . |
| 6 | The latter may be due to inability to shop or cook , for example because of limited mobility or language problems . |
| 7 | Other changes in reporting may be due to shifts in public perceptions of police attitudes towards specific crimes . |
| 8 | The same is unlikely to be true of CD-I and part of the delay in delivering FMFFV may be due to Philips ' concern to know the requirements of the standard before committing themselves . |
| 9 | Differences in results over time may be due to errors which must be attached to judgements of mastery , whether test results or teachers ' judgements or both are used in making the judgement . |
| 10 | Inconsistencies in the results of previous studies may be due to variations in the level of symptom recall , patient complaint , or consultation with medical practitioners and type of investigation performed on the various study populations . |
| 11 | The purchaser may be seeking to ensure that invoices are not raised pre-acquisition for deliveries to be made post-acquisition and also to ensure that full account is taken of any potential refunds etc which may be due to customers as a result of estimated prices being used . |
| 12 | differences in performance may be due to changes in technology ; |
| 13 | Alternatively they may be due to radiations coming from the plant , possibly reflectance on top of the simple ON/OFF pixel count due to area . |
| 14 | Many cases of childhood eczema may be due to allergy to cow 's milk , but some 50 per cent or so may clear up quite spontaneously , without any change in diet . |
| 15 | The latter may be due to carelessness , or to a principle which has not been grasped . |
| 16 | Indeed , the evolution of the communal behaviour of individual males may be due to strategies whereby co-operative action increases the chances of individuals mating with females . |
| 17 | Thus differences in pay and prestige between occupational groups may be due to differences in their power rather than their functional importance . |
| 18 | Firstly , studies comparing salmeterol 50 µg twice daily with salbutamol 200 µg four times a day are not comparing equi–effective doses and differences between the two drugs may be due to differences in dose rather than differences in drug . |
| 19 | May be due to sleep deprivation and stress . |
| 20 | Unsafe working practices may be due to ignorance , and providing education and training about safer methods can help reduce the risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens . |
| 21 | In the case of synthetic chemicals apparently causing asthma , the effect may be due to irritation rather than an allergic reaction . |
| 22 | The lack of notching of these , therefore , may be due to lack of time . |
| 23 | An improvement or deterioration in the health conditions of a group in society may be due to factors other than access to or use of medical services . |
| 24 | Some analysts pointed to a further fall of 13,000 in manufacturing jobs which could indicate the overall fall may be due to problems with seasonal adjustments , and expect the upward trend to resume in March . |
| 25 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 26 | Additional sub-bands in the control ( 0 ) lane , may be due to polymorphism in the C57Bl/6-SJL background of the Long 12 transgenic . |
| 27 | This improvement may be due to vasodilation of the ventilated zones of the lung inducing a ‘ pulmonary steal ’ of blood away from hypoxic vasoconstricted zones with low ventilation/µperfusion ratio . |
| 28 | When contraception is not used , long pregnancy intervals may be due to breastfeeding and abstinence . |
| 29 | Some cases of ‘ weekend migraine ’ may be due to caffeine withdrawal . |
| 30 | Some plunging cliffs may be due to faulting , downwarping and volcanic flows of very recent date in tectonically mobile areas such as New Zealand . |