Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be [vb pp] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of increasing task difficulty may be confined to one hand or affect both hands . |
| 2 | The decision about which other teachers to select for appointment also rests with the governing body , but this function may be delegated to one or more governors , the headteacher , or one or more governors and the headteacher acting together . |
| 3 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 4 | Skinhead violence may be seen as one response to such changes in society . |
| 5 | This is a far cry from the procedures under the Police Act 1964 , where mutual aid may be provided by one force to another , but only after a request from the latter . |
| 6 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 7 | W.J. White tells us that the ‘ decline of the embalming practice may be seen as one aspect of transitional funerary modes in fifteenth century England ’ . |
| 8 | Whatever the intrinsic properties of a form may be , its reception by our sensory equipment may be distorted by one or other of the many factors that we have considered . |
| 9 | Reference may be made to one other feature of the draft . |
| 10 | Non-consultation may be justified on one or more of these grounds , but only in unusual circumstances . |
| 11 | German may be taken for one year , as part of an MA(General) curriculum or as an outside subject for a degree in another honours group ( perhaps English , or History , or Philosophy ) , or as a progressive course lasting for two , three or four years within the MA(Honours) or the MA(General) . |
| 12 | In some cases , the process may be experienced as one of successive approximations , each one a little nearer to the mark . |
| 13 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 14 | The other is that no consideration is given to conflicting interests and the possibility that different forms of work organisation may be preferred by one group in the enterprise rather than another . |
| 15 | the centre-periphery relationship may be mediated through one or more intermediary or regional body ; |
| 16 | In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term . |
| 17 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 18 | both soil and groundwater may be treated in one step ; |
| 19 | In the case of well-motivated students with a high aptitude , the learning rate may be increased by one and a half times or even more , according to Valette and Disick . |
| 20 | b ) culture and sub-culture : the behaviour and standards of a nation or society may be determined by one culture . |
| 21 | Affray may be committed by one individual , and , like the other offences , it may be committed in a private place . |
| 22 | Such enabling legislation may be introduced in one or both of the houses of Congress by individual elected members , or may be sent there by the Executive . |
| 23 | Rollover relief may be obtained by one trading company in a group , even when the replacement asset is acquired by another trading member of the same group . |
| 24 | We have already seen that DNA is readily copied from one cell to a new cell , and that chunks of DNA may be copied from one individual to another individual , namely its child . |
| 25 | For example , a staff nurse 's post in an operating theatre may be filled by one nurse working 22½ hours per week over three days and another 15 hours per week on the other two operating days . |
| 26 | Positive evidence that axes of similar form enjoyed a symbolic status may be cited from one of the megalithic uprights of the Breton passage-grave of Gavrinis . |
| 27 | The member of the Bar present will report the case , and the report may be published in one of the official series of law reports ( e.g. All England or Weekly Law Reports ) ; such reports are considered a true record of the case . |
| 28 | Delivery may be achieved in one of several ways . |
| 29 | Basic salary may be calculated in one of three different ways . |
| 30 | On occasion , the literature survey may be restricted to one chapter of a volume — see , for instance , the annual Shakespeare survey . |