Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 2 | Moreover , memory may be impaired for a variety of reasons , lack of initial attention is not the only possible explanation . |
| 3 | Some fromage frais and quark have a longer shelf life and may be kept for a week or ten days after purchase . |
| 4 | A claim may be received for a piece of jewellery or a valuable , which is not specified under the policy , but the value of the item exceeds the policy limit for unspecified items . |
| 5 | In the U.S.A. you may be asked for a credit card imprint as security when checking into your hotel if you intend to charge meals , drinks , etc. to your rooms . |
| 6 | You may be asked for a replacement photograph if the one you supply is of poor quality . |
| 7 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 8 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 9 | Cereal crops — wheat , barley , oats , rye , maize , or ‘ dredge ’ mixtures — may be grown for a variety of reasons : for the sale of grain for milling , malting , or animal feed ; for home bread-making ; for feeding one 's own livestock either threshed and rolled or on the straw ; for grazing as a green crop ; for arable silage ; for ploughing in to increase fertility ; or for the sale of thatching straw . |
| 10 | Within school , pupils may be selected for a teaching group according to particular aspects of their school performance . |
| 11 | ( vi ) The same may be said for a passage of Paul . |
| 12 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 13 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 14 | Such systems may be used for a variety of purposes . |
| 15 | Semantic information may be used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |
| 16 | The same device may be used for a variety of potential functions , just as different devices may share a single function . |
| 17 | The bull 's head rhyton from the Bull 's Head Sanctuary at Knossos has a less conspicuous disc-shape carved into the black stone of its forehead : that too may be meant for a sun-disc . |
| 18 | the minimum price which may be paid for a Share shall be 25p ; |
| 19 | the maximum price which may be paid for a Share shall be not more than 5% above the average of the middle market quotations derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the ten business days immediately preceding the date of purchase of the Share ; and |
| 20 | In a Vulcanian eruption , the ejected material comes in the form of solid blocks and highly-fragmented ash , and the explosions are often powerful enough to heave blocks weighing many tons clear of the crater while smaller ones may be thrown for a kilometre or more . |
| 21 | In Paris art critics are often directly associated with particular galleries , and exhibition reviews may be negotiated for a fee between a magazine or a newspaper and the artist 's representative . |
| 22 | Different approaches may be needed for a colleague , a partner , an employee . |
| 23 | A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes : |
| 24 | In clinical practice grommet insertion may be performed for a number of different indications apart from hearing loss . |
| 25 | Mail messages may be retained for a period of time after initial inspection . |
| 26 | Unexpected syntactic categories may be returned for a string . |