Example sentences of "may be [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the outbound timing must be adjusted as necessary to comply with a time at which you may be cleared to leave the holding point . |
| 2 | With a burgeoning caseload , too few judges , and increasing delays the courts may be tempted to block the further development of the law and to cut back on the advances already made . |
| 3 | I may be tempted to offer the spontaneous inclination itself as reason for my choice , and say I shall do it because I want to do it ; but in examining myself objectively I see that a fact about my wants and likes would be directly relevant only to a causal explanation of my actions , and could be used in deciding what to do only as I use any other objective facts . |
| 4 | The availability of the computer means that spectrum manipulation , storage and retrieval for replotting or comparison with standards are all easy , and this may be felt to justify the higher cost of interferometers . |
| 5 | If the doctor overspends , he or she may be asked to explain the medical reasons for this to another doctor . |
| 6 | For instance , a model may be constructed to represent the main factors determining a Company 's proportionate share of a specific market . |
| 7 | To illustrate how equivalent circuits may be applied to analyse the small-signal responses of nonlinear systems , the low-frequency response of a basic junction transistor amplifier will now be examined . |
| 8 | There is however now some evidence that Select Committees would like to interest themselves in the Committee system and may be seeking to erode the present convention . |
| 9 | Diplomats think that by releasing General Tin Oo now , General Ne Win may be trying to counter the growing power of the MIS head , Khin Nyunt . |
| 10 | At the same moment you may be trying to tell the same editor an agreed version of what is happening at your client 's company . |
| 11 | These are more pervasive influences , not usually confined to any one time , and may be said to define the personal milieu in which the child spends his early years . |
| 12 | Co-operation with the West by the Soviet Union may be said to put the entire political structure of the Soviet Union in jeopardy because |
| 13 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 14 | Whether or not you opened the discussion , you may be invited to have the last word . |
| 15 | Economic trends and population projections may be evaluated to assess the future position of Green Belts , and whether any of the growth of modern light industry and offices may again be diverted to areas of types we now mention . |
| 16 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 17 | If this behaviour is modelled by a modified disc dynamo [ 3 ] , the appropriate magnetohydrodynamic partial differential equations may be truncated to give the simple system : ( 2.3 ) unc where a , b and c are positive parameters , and |
| 18 | A public local inquiry may be required to consider the remaining objections to the scheme . |
| 19 | The subject headings under which theses have been categorised in the Rolfe , Will , and Laming lists may be used to assess the relative importance of different sub-disciplines in the earth sciences over the period studied . |
| 20 | In this form the ratio of the share price decline to the size of the dividend may be used to estimate the personal income tax of the investor given a rate of capital gains tax . |
| 21 | One asks whether we are now seeing tools being fashioned which by some future , perhaps less scrupulous , Government may be used to weaken the independent administration of justice and so undermine the rule of law . |
| 22 | Play with objects , which retain a physical similarity between sign and signified , or where some concrete form may be used to represent the distant other , then becomes an essential prerequisite for the development of the symbolic faculty found in language . |
| 23 | Similarly , the letters " y " ; and " i " may be used to represent the same sound ( Kaiseria or Kayseria ) . |
| 24 | Many different words may be used to represent the same concept . |
| 25 | Isolated blastomeres can be labelled and their fate followed after reaggregation with unlabelled cells or the reagent may be used to label the entire outside cell population of an intact embryo from the 16-cell stage onwards . |
| 26 | Also , the attribute denoted as unc exists in both sets assigned to the lever and passenger compartment , and may be used to detail the conic space and internal " track " declared to be acceptable for manual operation of the gear lever . |
| 27 | Models give a general picture , explain relationships in a simple way , organise by ordering and relating elements within a system and may be used to predict the likely outcomes of a course of events by assigning probabilities to known patterns . |
| 28 | Strategies such as a supervisory and monitoring approach , using self and peer assessment , may be used to assist the overall assessment process . |
| 29 | ( g ) Indemnities An indemnity clause may be used to achieve the same effect as an exclusion clause . |
| 30 | The word " translation " may be used to denote the written or , in a lesser sense , the oral language as well . |