Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mail messages may be retained for a period of time after initial inspection . |
| 4 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Within school , pupils may be selected for a teaching group according to particular aspects of their school performance . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such systems may be used for a variety of purposes . |
| 11 | Different approaches may be needed for a colleague , a partner , an employee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unexpected syntactic categories may be returned for a string . |