Example sentences of "may be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon may be the style side , but Oxford United are the entertainers at the moment . |
| 2 | This may be the middle of the afternoon to you , to me it 's evening — and the end of a very long day . ’ |
| 3 | In old age , there may be the will to retain independence in this AL but circumstances and the effects of the process of ageing may force an elderly person to be dependent on others , at least to some degree . |
| 4 | We have argued that much communication is English-based , and in education it constitutes a real choice since a purpose may be the teaching of specific English structures through sign . |
| 5 | Yet however suspect may be the capacity of electors in general to vote responsibly and intelligently their right to make political choices must in a democracy be respected . |
| 6 | In the short term , Mr Lamont may be the winner by saving on the tax relief that would have been granted if drilling costs were still available for offsetting against PRT . |
| 7 | At the youngest age , your friend may be the winner of a running race or someone who has beautiful hair ! |
| 8 | No individuals will be identified , and really it 's for the future , er , so you , there may be the opportunity of er , new words , recorded . |
| 9 | ‘ This may be the opportunity for another young man to appear from nowhere and make a name for himself . ’ |
| 10 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 11 | ‘ Which may be the measure of his quality , ’ said Cadfael firmly , ‘ or of his cunning . |
| 12 | If they win on Saturday it may be the freedom of the town . |
| 13 | If they win on Saturday it may be the freedom of the town . |
| 14 | This may be the trade-in price of your existing car which means you wo n't have to dip into your savings . |
| 15 | This may be the inspiration of a new perspective on an old situation . |
| 16 | A wooden lid carved with a winged griffin and a deer in a rocky landscape was found at Saqqara in Egypt ; Sinclair Hood ( 1978 , pp. 115–16 ) suggests that it may be the work of a Minoan wood carver working in 1450–1400 BC , perhaps as a captive in Mycenae : if so , it is a rare survival of Minoan wood carving . |
| 17 | In particular he was closely involved with the rebuilding of Bolsover Castle , Derbyshire , between about 1612 and his death ; the riding-school range there , however , may be the work of his son , Huntingdon Smythson , who died in 1648 . |
| 18 | A wall-painting of c .1160 in the chapel of St Anselm [ q.v. ] at Canterbury Cathedral , which shows St Paul bitten by a viper on the island of Malta , has been attributed to Hugo , although it may be the work of a follower . |
| 19 | We 're still looking at it , but it may be the work of the ALF . |
| 20 | Jim , true to his word , may be the man to fix it after all . |
| 21 | ‘ It may be the man you 've been waiting for , Master Benjamin , ’ she called across . |
| 22 | He says all the men have agreed to take it , and anyone who refuses may be the man . |
| 23 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 24 | That may be the way the world does its business , but it is not to be the way the Lord 's people should do theirs . |
| 25 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 26 | This may be the way they soothe their young . |
| 27 | That FMEs are appointed by the police does little to project the reality of independence , and transfer of this appointing responsibility to the Home Office ( or the Lord Chancellor ) and a register of accredited FMEs may be the way forward here . |
| 28 | For we find , in looking at pupil resistance , that while sex roles may be transmitted , they are by no means always taken on board ; and furthermore , that one of the ‘ causes ’ of pupil disaffection may be the presence of contradictions in gender ideologies — even within one school . |
| 29 | You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing . |
| 30 | The school librarian may be the person controls the acquisition and borrowing of software and therefore a responsibility to ensure that software which is borrowed is not copied in school , as this could lead to prosecution . |