Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a change of use occurs the local planning authority is concerned with the intended use to which the property is to be put in order that the character of the locality may be maintained in accordance with other development schemes . |
| 2 | Structuralism may be employed to excavate the principles of classification and order which unite what on the surface appear as highly disparate domains , so that for a particular society food preparation , kinship and myth may be revealed as transformations of each other . |
| 3 | Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness . |
| 4 | Such searches may be undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategic review or in order to assist a client in implementing an agreed acquisition strategy . |
| 5 | However , voluntary medical examinations may be conducted as part of an occupational health programme . |
| 6 | Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy . |
| 7 | Some of your stress may be caused by problems at home , particularly if say you 've got teenagers . |
| 8 | Conflict may be caused by differences in the objectives of different groups or individuals . |
| 9 | Two other valid criteria for weeding may be employed in conjunction with use and publication date . |
| 10 | Their absence may be noted by devices like ‘ optical mark readers ’ and ‘ swipe cards ’ which log them in and out of each lesson . |
| 11 | However , actions may be challenged by others with hindsight and an engineer may have to establish the facts in the face of a hostile situation . |
| 12 | Solicitors may be appointed to positions in industry , and remarks made previously in relation to barristers apply equally to solicitors . |
| 13 | The contribution of a single wire may be determined with reference to Fig. 4.5 . |
| 14 | Relocation allowances and benefits may be determined through negotiation between the employing organisation and the recognised trade unions or staff association . |
| 15 | ‘ 19A(1) In any criminal proceedings — ( a ) the Court of Appeal ; ( b ) the Crown Court ; or ( c ) a magistrates ' court may disallow , or ( as the case may be ) order the legal or other representative concerned to meet , the whole of any wasted costs or such part of them as may be determined in accordance with regulations . |
| 16 | Another and perhaps even more striking example of the undesirability of the practice can be found in the case of Woolwich Equitable Building Society v. IRC where the finance Act 1985 had included sections enabling the Inland Revenue to make regulations for the payment by building societies of tax on ‘ such sums as may be determined in accordance with regulations ’ and went on to provide that any such regulations might contain ‘ such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Board to be appropriate ’ . |
| 17 | First , in any proceedings the court may disallow , or ( as the case may be ) order the legal or other representative concerned to meet , the whole of any wasted costs or such part of them as may be determined in accordance with rules of court ( s 51(6) ) . |
| 18 | The content validity of individual items may be determined by inspection by someone with expertise in the area of language assessment . |
| 19 | But it was paid with the knowledge on both sides that customs control over goods imported may be exercised in support of illegal as well as of legal demands of duty . |
| 20 | Third , and most important , is Rawls ' blindness to the possibility that the social role of a doctrine of justice may be met by consensus concerning the second best , given that an ideal constitution is not feasible . |
| 21 | ‘ The household expenses may be met by funds in trust , you know , and not your expectations from the will . ’ |
| 22 | Wright et al reported that particular antigens , after initial phagocytosis , may be reprocessed for presentation to T cells , and Guides et al proposed a functional complementation between mononuclear phagocytes and interdigitating dendritic cells . |
| 23 | Certain service points may be designated as repositories for subject collections . |
| 24 | The draftsman should either designate in the lease the place where the advertisement may be maintained , or grant the tenant a right to maintain an advertisement in such place as may be designated from time to time by the landlord or his surveyor . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) This section applies to offences — ( a ) for which the sentence is fixed by law ; or ( b ) for which a person of 21 years of age or over ( not previously convicted ) may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years … |
| 26 | The comparatively long time intervals between such environmental vicissitudes may be characterized by stasis in ecosystems as well as the component species . |
| 27 | Patients with uncontrolled bleeding may be referred for surgery after considerable blood loss and are then extremely difficult to assess . |
| 28 | In the event that you have a dispute with us which we can not amicably resolve is you so wish the dispute may be referred to Arbitration under a special scheme which though devised by arrangement with ABTA is administered quite independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 29 | If , however , we are unable to resolve any dispute arising out of a complaint than the complaint may be referred to Arbitration under a special scheme devised by arrangement with the Association of British Travel Agents but administered independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 30 | This point is exemplified with reference to tense and mood variation in Spanish si clauses ( see 50–52 above ) ; Lavandera points out that although the alternants may be defined as variants of an underlying variable in the sense that they are truth-conditional semantic equivalents , and pattern according to external social factors , they differ in modal meaning ( see Huddleston 1984 : 165 for a discussion of these semantic issues ) . |