Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preparation of the material may be undertaken by the trial judge , or one of the trial judges , or by another judge or court officer whose primary work consists of such preparation . |
| 2 | Other work of a less specialist nature — plumbing , plastering , roofing , flooring and wall tiling , painting and decorating — may be undertaken by the builder 's own work-force , labour only sub-contractors or labour and material sub-contractors . |
| 3 | Allocation to the appropriate worker for further services may be undertaken by the team leader , calling on a social work assistant or occupational therapist . |
| 4 | Analysis of both the coin and jewellery shows that the gradual debasement of the coin may be matched by the quality of the gold in the jewellery , pointing-to the coin as being the source of the jewellers ' raw material ( Hawkes , Merrick and Metcalf 1966 ) . |
| 5 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 6 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 7 | or , having been ordered for consumption off the premises , it may be despatched by the vendor outwith permitted hours . |
| 8 | This is especially useful in a museum context , where vast numbers and types of objects representing different specialisms may be united by the thesaurus . |
| 9 | Alternatively , a search may be conducted by the usage of any group of additives . |
| 10 | These tasks may be conducted by the originator or one or more of the consultants who may have expressed a willingness to help . |
| 11 | They believe that the parasites which spread malaria by infecting red blood cells , may be killed by the release of highly reactive substances called ‘ free-oxygen radicals ’ from specialised cells produced by the body 's immune system . |
| 12 | But information may be treated by the speaker as given for a variety of other reasons . |
| 13 | Moreover , s11(2) of SGA 1979 provides that conditions may be waived , or a breach of a condition may be treated by the buyer as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 14 | The patient with perceptual problems may be treated by the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist simultaneously , to help his overall awareness . |
| 15 | Correlation does not necessarily imply causality , i.e. a change in one variable is not necessarily the cause of a change in another ( a change in both may be caused by a change in a third ) . |
| 16 | This attentional failure may be caused by a lowering of arousal level , which may be temporarily counteracted by the subject exerting special efforts to remain awake . |
| 17 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 18 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 19 | Second , blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors — that is , various vitamin or trace element deficiencies . |
| 20 | Premature birth may be caused by a number of factors or by no apparent cause , while one pregnancy of 334 days has been recorded . |
| 21 | The lack of rearrangement may be caused by a loss of an as-yet unidentified cis -acting rearrangement-promoting element , as suggested by the dramatic differences in the extent of rearrangement in the wild-type and mutant alleles coexisting in the same thymocytes of TCR -β heterozygous mice ( Fig. 4 c , third lane from right ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On the other hand , failure may be caused by the culture . |
| 25 | His second point was to discredit the idea that environmental pollution may be caused by the release of formaldehyde , used during embalming , from the decomposing body after interment . |
| 26 | This tachycardia may be caused by the hyoscine butylbromide premedication as tachycardia was often apparent in patients after hyoscine administration before intubation . |
| 27 | Less , indeed , than my late brother 's good name , which I consider to be more important than any financial inconvenience you may be caused by the expiry of copyright . |
| 28 | Recent interest in bismuth is based on evidence that some peptic ulcers may be caused by the bacillus Campylobacter pylori ( Helicobacter pylori ) . |
| 29 | Granted that fluctuations in employment may result from fluctuations in the real wage rate around its permanent , normal value which may , in turn , give scope for intertemporal speculative behaviour in the supply of labour ; granted that these fluctuations may be caused by the confusion surrounding fluctuations in the general price level or in the rate of inflation . |
| 30 | This may be caused by the use of different techniques , for example , continuous rectal filling with a certain infusion rate up to the maximal tolerable volume . |