Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discrepancy of our results to the reported inhibitory action of cyclosporin A on renal prostaglandin formation may be caused by an organ selective effect of cyclosporin A or to the higher doses of cyclosporin A — that is , 50 mg/kg , used in studies on renal prostaglandin formation . |
| 2 | The data suggest that the protentiation of pancreatic toxicity of cyclosporin A observed during coadministration of indomethacin is not the result of suppression of endogenous pancreatic eicosanoid biosynthesis , but more likely results from altered cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics which may be caused by an interference of indomethacin with the hepatic cytochrome P-450 dependent monooxygenase involved in cyclosporin A metabolism . |
| 3 | Similarly , for juvenile offenders , the ‘ care order ’ under which they may be detained in an institution is for an unspecified period ; again , release is determined by rehabilitative , treatment criteria . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the submission of Mr. Collins ignores the fact that , since an injunction may be granted in an emergency to restrain an infringement of the law , for example the cutting down of a tree in breach of a tree preservation order ( see , e.g. , Newport Borough Council v. Khan ( Sabz Ali ) [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 1185 ) , it may well be impossible in such circumstances to resolve the issue of a possible defence on the application for an interlocutory injunction . |
| 5 | Plant pieces are not actively used in the construction of the nest , but they may be employed as an anchor , or in the case of broad leaf plants that reach the surface , as a site for the whole nest . |
| 6 | A set of assumptions may be challenged by an outsider , and at this moment these shared views come into focus . |
| 7 | A court school , such as Alcuin led , may be defined as an institution for harnessing learning to political purposes , all kinds of learning including biblical learning . |
| 8 | A contract may be defined as an agreement enforceable at law . |
| 9 | Special Service may be defined as an action ranging between but not including the work of the single agent on the one hand , and on the other , the full-scale combined operation . |
| 10 | I shall begin by concentrating on the ego , which may be defined as an agency of the personality differentiated from the wholly unconscious id by its responsibilities for the control of voluntary movement . |
| 11 | The picture obtained may be compared with an event being filmed from a distance as a series of still shots with some blank shots in between and no close-ups . |
| 12 | This may be compared with an NCB estimate of 113 to 142 million tonnes a year and the NUM 's stated belief that appropriate policies could raise demand to 170 million tonnes per annum . |
| 13 | The level of detail may be compared to an encyclopaedia , with the entries arranged according to their content , rather than alphabetically . |
| 14 | This prejudice against close involvement with " the secular government may be illustrated by an anecdote related in the about Molla Gurani . |
| 15 | These sexual differences may be illustrated by an experiment of A. J. Bateman on the fruitfly Drosophila . |
| 16 | The aggregate amount paid out under these schemes may be limited to an amount specified in the regulations . |
| 17 | History may be cited as an example , not least because in the post-Falklands era several leading figures , including Sir Keith Joseph and Professor Hugh Thomas , have singled it out for special mention in connection with ‘ understanding the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British Society ’ . |
| 18 | The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings : |
| 19 | Intensely concerned with retaining contact with external reality , Braque must have realized , unconsciously perhaps , that at this particular time Cubism 's means of expression could become only more abstract , and the illusionistically painted nail may be regarded as an affirmation of the realistic intentions of the movement . |
| 20 | The feelings may be regarded as an interpretation of the activity . |
| 21 | Hence , repression by CytR relies on contacts to both the DNA and the cAMP-CRP complex , and cAMP-CRP may be regarded as an adaptor for CytR . |
| 22 | Agency may be regarded as an extension of legal personality . |
| 23 | A third principle may be regarded as an application of the second but is best stated on its own . |
| 24 | It may be regarded as an infrastructure element for the movement of information , in the same way as roads and railways control and permit the movement of people and goods . |
| 25 | If the seller supplies goods or services in response , the supply may be regarded as an acceptance of those terms . |
| 26 | They are organisations ( they may be run from an office or from someone 's home ) that seek to match up like-minded individuals . |
| 27 | The former is usually approached by the promotion of close personal relationships , but such relationships may be threatened by an insistence that the placement is temporary . |
| 28 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 29 | And here for example you might have the recreational mind , healthy mind and body the existential , the person who as much as anything may be looking for an experience based on meditation , er religion , this sort of thing . |
| 30 | here there is limited or no recourse to government to guarantee a scheme , the risks of the project after completion of construction may be offset by an agreement to index link tolls or charges and by insurance guarantees . |