Example sentences of "[noun] may [be] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten or more coaches may be needed for a provincial tour by the Queen when the train becomes her Palace on Wheels . |
| 2 | Although a deal may be concluded for a strategically important acquisition at a fair price , the subsequent financial success of such an acquisition will be often dependent on the appropriateness of the deal structure . |
| 3 | Ophiomedea duplicata may be mistaken for a juvenile Ophiotrema alberti , it differs from that species by the following characters ; the jaw shape is as wide as long not longer than wide as in O. alberti ; there are fewer oral papillae and oral tentacle scales than in O. alberti , the ventral arm plates are bell shaped with a distinctly widened distal edge , the ventral arm plates of O. alberti being more pentagonal or rectangular with rounded edges and the distal edge indented but not widened . |
| 4 | So there is no main cold water cistern in the loft ( though a feed-and-expansion cistern may be needed for a central heating system ) . |
| 5 | The same device may be used for a variety of potential functions , just as different devices may share a single function . |
| 6 | Returns : Any product purchased from MiLAn may be returned for a full refund , less shipping and handling charges , within 30 days of the original factory shipment date . |
| 7 | In Paris art critics are often directly associated with particular galleries , and exhibition reviews may be negotiated for a fee between a magazine or a newspaper and the artist 's representative . |
| 8 | Mail messages may be retained for a period of time after initial inspection . |
| 9 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 10 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 11 | Examples of this kind of approach are common in the motor car retail trade in times of low demand , when one-year warranties are extended to two years , and interest-free credit may be offered for a limited period . |
| 12 | A claim may be received for a piece of jewellery or a valuable , which is not specified under the policy , but the value of the item exceeds the policy limit for unspecified items . |
| 13 | Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions . |
| 14 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 15 | In clinical practice grommet insertion may be performed for a number of different indications apart from hearing loss . |
| 16 | Semantic information may be used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |
| 17 | Within school , pupils may be selected for a teaching group according to particular aspects of their school performance . |
| 18 | Moreover , memory may be impaired for a variety of reasons , lack of initial attention is not the only possible explanation . |
| 19 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 20 | More intensive psychological care and psychiatric treatment may be required for a few . |
| 21 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
| 22 | A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes : |
| 23 | In a Vulcanian eruption , the ejected material comes in the form of solid blocks and highly-fragmented ash , and the explosions are often powerful enough to heave blocks weighing many tons clear of the crater while smaller ones may be thrown for a kilometre or more . |
| 24 | Such systems may be used for a variety of purposes . |
| 25 | Different approaches may be needed for a colleague , a partner , an employee . |
| 26 | Some of the landforms , especially if they are depositional , may be quickly destroyed , but forms cut into resistant rocks may be preserved for a very long time . |
| 27 | Unexpected syntactic categories may be returned for a string . |
| 28 | Here is the source of the cunning factor and Kent are unashamed — indeed almost gleeful — in their avowed intention to take full advantage of the Lord 's dispensation that , in order to encourage slow bowling , the same pitch may be used for a one-day and a championship match . |