Example sentences of "may be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short statement of the definition would be this : grammar deals with closed system choices which may be between items ( this , that , he , she , we ) or between categories ( singular , plural ; past , present , future ) ; lexis is concerned with open set choices , which are always between items ( chair , bench , seat , stool ) . |
| 2 | Wittgenstein refers to ‘ the idea that language always functions in one way , always serves the same purpose : to convey thoughts — which may be about houses , pains , good and evil , or anything else you please . ’ |
| 3 | In some areas urban pressure on the periphery creates additional problems because expansion may be into areas of considerable landscape value . |
| 4 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 5 | But reference to liability is valuable in that it emphasises that shareholders qua members may be under obligations to the company as well as having rights against it . |
| 6 | One method may be through variations in government expenditure and taxation since these flows are under the direct control of the authorities . |
| 7 | But he is confident enough to assert the best way to tackle the problem of low intelligence among deprived children may be through measures designed to improve their nutrition . |
| 8 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 9 | Nor is it the knowledge that Foxton , a haunt of foxes even in Saxon times , is a meeting place among others of one of the great Leicestershire Hunts , the Fernie , however important a cause that may be for assemblies of motorists in the county . |
| 10 | ( 6 ) A tender offer must be for cash whereas a partial offer may be for securities of the offeror . |
| 11 | Satisfactory though casing may be for books which a careless age does not expect to be long-lived , it can not compare in craftsmanship and durability with the old method properly practised . |
| 12 | Among the free churches there is no set system of redundancy procedure as there is for the Anglican Church , so that it may be for officials from the local congregation to decide if and how to dispose of vacant church property . |
| 13 | It is vital that all external constraints are known at this stage , otherwise all the short-listed options may be for bridges when , for environmental reasons or because of the proximity of an airport , only a tunnel is possible . |
| 14 | Nor do I think we are , as a rule , justified as we may be with adults in using a child 's attraction to the worker to advance casework . |
| 15 | Sometimes where there is a third party , such as a foundation with clear principles or there is government or local authority involvement , the pressure on the foundation representatives and public servants is to conform to an ‘ official ’ position which may be at odds with the way the project is developing and the views of the other partners . |
| 16 | Mansell may be at odds with Team Renault-Williams , but he will be keen to give them all the feedback he can when he takes the dream car for a spin at Silverstone tomorrow . |
| 17 | The Everqueen 's policies may be at odds with those of the Phoenix King . |
| 18 | Second , there are ‘ coupling constraints ’ , which reflect individuals ' commitments to engage in specific activities at specific times ( work , school , or appointments ) which may be at odds with the timing of public transport services . |
| 19 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 20 | In this environment , students will be given opportunities to realise the need for new skills and abilities and their development will be supported in , what may be at times , personally challenging situations . |
| 21 | It was felt that however frustrating or exasperating our relationships with the churches may be at times , our ‘ bias to the churches ’ must continue but not at the cost of excluding other ‘ efficient ’ partners who are non-church . |
| 22 | Your microhabitat may be without occupants for a long time , but usually some animals will reach it in the end . |
| 23 | In fact , it may be via expectations that interest rates exert their major influence on investment . |
| 24 | ‘ I may be in tears , ’ said Henry , ‘ I may just … you know … blub ! ’ |
| 25 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 26 | Er , so that 's okay to an extent , but obviously we 've got an approved list of building societies and banks , which we never used to have , but we 've realized that er since B C C I p particularly and the housing market as bad as it is , there are some building societies and banks who may be in difficulties , and if they go down erm then they may not be taken over . |
| 27 | Although the characteristic case of an affray involves fighting in public , there may be in cases where there is no actual violence applied to the person of another , since the offence is capable of commission by those who threaten violence . |
| 28 | Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters . |
| 29 | This may be in terms of amenities in hospital wards , or in the actual clinical care provided . |
| 30 | However , the mapping may be in terms of representations which are close to the utterance in question , such as the verb-schema type of representation , or to structures based on more elaborate inferences , such as the one described above . |