Example sentences of "may [adv] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lain unnoticed for a number of years , Patinkin 's insights have recently been elaborated and refined in the works of Robert Clower and in the writings of what may loosely be called the French Keynesian School , the most prominent member of which is Edmond Malinvaud ( see Malinvaud , 1980 and 1985 ) . |
| 2 | I also consider ( though this may only be expressing the same conclusion in another way ) that , for the reasons given by Mr. Langley , the injunction as at present framed should be interpreted as not prohibiting compliance with the section 39 notice . |
| 3 | Although they are mainly what would be called consolidating enactments in British practice , one which may perhaps be considered a genuine code is the regulation bringing together all the various Community rules on customs matters , in effect a Community Customs Code , on which the Council adopted a common position on 14 May 1992 . |
| 4 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 5 | Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after . |
| 6 | Child rearing is more ‘ permissive ’ , and while children may not be granted the status of equal partners in the family decision-making process , they are no longer simply expected to be seen and not heard . |
| 7 | People like those keen gardeners who talk to their flowers and love them , may not be helping the flowers but they are doing themselves much good , for love benefits the lover more than the loved . |
| 8 | The man may or may not be earning a wage ; he may not understand the particular needs of the children . |
| 9 | If the body is a small one , the younger hunters may not be given a share . |
| 10 | District nurses and health visitors who have been given the statutory power to prescribe treatments may not be given the authority to do so by their employers . |
| 11 | Or , in an established school where they may not be using the most effective language teaching methods . |
| 12 | Draw attention , if necessary , to the fact that words may not be pronounced the way their spelling suggest they will sound . |
| 13 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 14 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 15 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 16 | You may not be applying the techniques necessary to take advantage of this opportunity of obtaining wisdom as well as information . |
| 17 | If the evaluation is ‘ bolted on ’ at a later date it may not be measuring the success of the original , documented plans . |
| 18 | He 's the best of the lot , I mean , it may not be saying a lot , |
| 19 | As Mr Armitage puts it : ‘ We may not be hitting the quantity , but we are certainly getting the quality . ’ |
| 20 | THE man who sold us the Barbie doll may soon be promoting the scandal-rocked Royal Family . |
| 21 | Paul Verhoeven may soon be sleeping a little easier . |
| 22 | Targeting particular sectors sounds fine , but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas . |
| 23 | , Global warming may already be having a destabilizing impact on British fauna and flora , according to a series of recent studies . |
| 24 | Recent evidence from two Nuffield College researchers , John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy , suggests that development pressures may already be having an effect with an estimated 100,000 people emigrating from the south east in 1988 because of high house prices . |
| 25 | Pollution of our planet may already be warming the atmosphere and there 's rising concern about what will happen at the poles . |
| 26 | Northfield homework , one suspects , may just be taking a temporary back seat . |
| 27 | Bowe , of course , who did all his serious preparations before arriving here , may just be demonstrating a more honest approach to these final , meaningless training sessions before the big night . |
| 28 | LENNOX LEWIS may still be given the chance of a dream world title fight after all . |
| 29 | They may still be mourning the loss of the parent who has died or left home . |
| 30 | In fact , they may still be working a week before the opening . |