Example sentences of "may be at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to being a gathering of worshippers , such congregations may be at the centre of the life of a community in ‘ alien ’ surroundings . |
| 2 | Preparing for donkey work Bishop Sessford , right , may be at the centre of controversy over the ordination of women but he plans a quiet life when he retires , writes Tom Morton |
| 3 | These may be at the level of little-associations , anecdotes , etc. , some-examples , attributes , defining features , etc. , or more superordinate concepts , definitions , analogies , etc . |
| 4 | The Zimbabwean national team may be at the foot of the world cup table , but youth cricket is coming on apace . |
| 5 | The point is that many of these specific areas of functional excellence are not independent of each other and improvements in one area may be at the cost of worsening in another . |
| 6 | CUP , OUP and Longman have worked through local publishers for many years , although this may be at the cost of their own brand identities . |
| 7 | The overall effect on sensitivity may actually be negative because the focusing of attention on redundant information may be at the cost of attention to peripheral information which might have otherwise been useful . |
| 8 | It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence . |
| 9 | It may be at the end of end of all this that you you are nevertheless convinced that there ought to be a policy . |
| 10 | The GEP is aimed at individuals with a viable business project that may be at the planning stage or in the early stages of trading . |
| 11 | It may be at the time that they hear the person is going to die ; it may be when they suddenly recognize that the person has become very ill ; it can be at almost any stage when the threat of loss comes into their mind . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 13 | In the case of a vehicle , these may be at the front of the radiator or on top of the cab to take maximum advantage of the airflow . |
| 14 | Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service . |
| 15 | Apart from the inpatient waiting list initiative no extra resources were released for meeting the Charter standards , but meeting the standard for outpatient clinics may be at the expense of seeing fewer patients and a lengthening list for a first appointment . |
| 16 | And I ca n't help thinking that we might end up with a sort of repeat of the sort of situation that 's occurred at Octavius Atkinson site which is erm mentioned in the erm the paper tabled this morning , whereby er a sort of market-led approach which puts a lot of pressure on the local authorities may be at the expense of the planning-led approach to erm deciding where development should most appropriately go . |
| 17 | They may be at the root of colic , which is why lactose intolerance is important here . |
| 18 | Sensing that the stones may be at the root of the problem , Zab contacts one of Xorandor 's offspring , and she learns that ‘ Verbivore ’ is a reaction by the mineral race to information overload . |
| 19 | ‘ But if they ca n't be shifted , there 'll never be room for you , no matter how much better than them you may be at the job . ’ |