Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it may be asked why companies whose first duty is to their shareholders should put huge sums into the education system . |
| 2 | It may be asked why psychiatry has made such heavy weather of coming round to that view . |
| 3 | Smokers may be storing up disease for their unborn children , according to the latest research . |
| 4 | To this figure may be added further discoveries and letters for the years where the register is lost or imperfect , as in the third and fourth years . |
| 5 | Simultaneously , you may be fending off criticism from a friend or relative who feels |
| 6 | The main problem in discussing the emancipation may be explaining why Alexander addressed himself to it halfheartedly rather than why he addressed himself to it at all . |
| 7 | Similar facies may be expected further east in the subsurface . |