Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differing emotions in horses may be revealed by a slight tightening of a muscle or a movement of the whole body . |
| 2 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 3 | The screw may be hidden beneath a coloured plastic disc , which needs levering out |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the group arrangements may be conducted on a daily basis , making it difficult to calculate an exact balance on the morning of completion . |
| 5 | ACQUIRED immuno-deficiency syndrome , otherwise known as AIDS , the disease that is mystifying doctors and spreading rapidly among American gays , may be caused by a new strain of African swine fever virus that is infecting pigs in Haiti . |
| 6 | If a tap drips persistently , it may be caused by a damaged tap seating which is chewing up the surface of any washer fitted . |
| 7 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 8 | If the system has zone control and all the radiators in one part of the house are cold , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve , which is isolating part of the system . |
| 9 | There are similar sanctions which may be employed against a reluctant witness in the county court and High Court . |
| 10 | That is any auditor of an authorised institution incorporated in the U K. It also covers auditors of authorised institutions whose place of incorporation is outside the European community and who 's initial authorisation has been granted by another regulator , even though such auditors may be appointed under a foreign law . |
| 11 | With Equity Capital , where larger amounts of finance are normally involved , the proportion of the ordinary equity will usually by 15–40% and a member of Barclays Development Capital Ltd. or the Barclays Baronsmead Fund may be appointed as a non-executive director . |
| 12 | an administrative receiver may be appointed by a floating charge holder . |
| 13 | Commissioners may be appointed by a judicial authority of either the requesting or the requested State , and the Convention enables courts to appoint foreign judges as ‘ commissioners ’ to examine witnesses directly ( under compulsion if necessary ) in their own language and under their own procedures and without the intervention of the local courts . |
| 14 | In imposing a particular text structure , the content of the message in the text may be presented from a particular perspective or point of view . |
| 15 | These prior conditions may be determined by a chief constable or his deputy , or someone of equivalent rank in the Metropolitan police . |
| 16 | The abundance and the functional effects of N-Oct 3 may be regulated by different mechanisms : ( i ) transcription of N-Oct 3 may be regulated in a temporal and tissue specific manner , ( ii ) the RNA half life might be controlled by sequences in the 3' untranslated region as suggested by our findings ( iii ) a bias in translation in favour of N-Oct 5 proteins may serve to neutralize the effects of the N-Oct 3 protein . |
| 17 | However , the key to the avoidance of uncontrolled complexity in any engineering domain may be to go for a complete and as rigorous as possible a description of the problem in hand before any detailed calculations are made on the precise properties of the postulated design . |
| 18 | She may be dressed in a different uniform , and therefore must explain her role to the patient . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE . |
| 21 | There is no limit on the number of volume sets which may be defined for a particular installation , as the number produced depends on the number of charge codes for which modules are to be hard copied and the number of modules to be hard copied for those charge codes . |
| 22 | An assignment may be defined as a mini project or as any problem solving exercise with clear guidelines and of specified length . |
| 23 | a budget may be defined as a quantitative and financial plan of the activity to be pursued during the financial year to achieve that year 's objectives . |
| 24 | A social class may be defined as a psychological-social grouping , within which social , economic , educational and political interests tend to coincide . |
| 25 | It may be defined as a constitutive process for the development of some subject in and through the medium of culture , which is the form taken by all social productions . |
| 26 | This distribution pattern may be compared with a similar brooch type found commonly in the upper Thames valley , the cast saucer brooch . |
| 27 | The complex interplay of such pressures may be illustrated through a brief case example , drawn from research being undertaken on CMHTs . |
| 28 | This may be illustrated by a simple numerical example . |
| 29 | The easier these objects can be seen and felt , the easier it is to get the meaning across : ( a ) Names of things like pencils , tables and books may be taught by a pointing naming technique , the success of which depends on making clear what is being pointed out . |
| 30 | This salad may be served as a colourful starter or be made into a more substantial lunch or supper dish with the addition of some potato salad on top of the bed of lettuce . |