Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The era of the passive media consumer — or ‘ couch potato ’ — may be drawing to a close if they discoveries of the ingenious Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are any indication . |
| 2 | Certain powers of the court may be delegated to a single justice or a justices ' clerk . |
| 3 | Play , Dreams and Imitation in Childhood may be related to a whole series of studies of cognitive development by piaget . |
| 4 | This may be related to a relative lack of social stability : being more frequently single and in less permanent accommodation . |
| 5 | It may be seen as expressing the personality of the author , in accordance with the famous formula of the French scholar Buffon ( 1978 : xvii ) , that the style is the man ( ‘ le style est l'homme même ’ ) ; or it may be related to a literary movement or period ( e.g. futurist style , baroque style ) . |
| 6 | The process , in its emphasis on active leadership and unidirectional flow , may be likened to a hypodermic needle , with the active ingredient ( vision ) loaded into a syringe ( words ) which is injected into the patient ( subordinate ) to effect change . |
| 7 | This relationship may be likened to a crowded platform . |
| 8 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 9 | Small repairs may be made to a damaged surface by flooding the affected area with molten asphalt after the defective section has been cut out . |
| 10 | There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ . |
| 11 | Thus if the value of ρ or a band is found to be less than ρ max may be assigned to a totally-symmetric mode . |
| 12 | Children who perform differently at different times of day may be reacting to a changed quantity or quality of lighting level . |
| 13 | Secondly , if a worker does not want that to happen , sufficient funds may be transferred to a commercial company to enable it to continue to pay pension entitlements , including index linking . |
| 14 | Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re-establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . |
| 15 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 16 | Thus the experimental group may be exposed to a new type of physics course , whereas the control group follows the traditional course ; in every other respect the two groups are exactly comparable . |
| 17 | A music publishing contract may be offered to a developing artist after they have signed to a record company . |
| 18 | A brass plate may be engraved to a special order , perhaps to commemorate a special person or an occasion such as a Golden Wedding . |
| 19 | So , although these cats may be doomed to a disappointing sex life , in other respects they have fared remarkably well . |
| 20 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 21 | This decision was subsequently approved by the Court of Appeal , but limited to cases where the assets comprised in both charges are the same , and it appears that a general floating charge on the whole of the undertaking may be postponed to a subsequent floating charge on a particular class of assets where the first charge contemplates the creation of the later charge . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the tutor may be allocated to a particular ward or unit to help to co-ordinate the learning programme . |
| 23 | We have seen how the vibration frequencies may be observed and how each may be allocated to a particular symmetry species . |
| 24 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 25 | Costs may be awarded to a successful private prosecutor out of central funds . |
| 26 | Although the range of facilities and services may be smaller , they may be provided to a high standard . |
| 27 | This assumption may be relaxed to a certain extent by allowing for tenure over a specified number of ( exogenously chosen ) periods ( see NN ) or for random terminations ( see Lancaster and Chesher , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Initially , ninety meetings in ninety days are recommended but later this may be reduced to a regular two meetings a week or however many the individual recovering person finds to be necessary to maintain a contented mood and a sense of peace of mind . |
| 29 | Toxic emissions from a huge nickel-smelting plant in the far north of Russia may be reduced to a negligible amount if cleanup proposals from a Scandinavian group of companies are accepted by the plant 's owner . |
| 30 | ( 4.7 ) unc The sequential composition of a pair of assignments to different lists of variables may be reduced to a single assignment using this law with 3.2 and 3.3 . |