Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Second , blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors — that is , various vitamin or trace element deficiencies . |
| 7 | Premature birth may be caused by a number of factors or by no apparent cause , while one pregnancy of 334 days has been recorded . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the family proceedings court leave may be granted by a clerk . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Not more than four occasional permissions may be granted by a licensing board in any one year on behalf of the same voluntary organisation or the same branch of a voluntary organisation . |
| 13 | A set of assumptions may be challenged by an outsider , and at this moment these shared views come into focus . |
| 14 | R.5(7) restricts who may be appointed by a shareholder as a proxy or corporate representative . |
| 15 | Less frequently , the chief may be appointed by a city or county manager , or an administrator , appointed by local councillors ( cf. |
| 16 | Priorities for revision between the interest categories may be determined by a comparison of the stock record cards . |
| 17 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
| 18 | A booking contract may be formed by a telephone conversation between the prospective guest and the hotel . |
| 19 | The expertise of the adviser in the particular problem which emerges will doubtless influence the proposed course of action ( which might include a referral ) but the preliminary advisory skills may be possessed by a volunteer as by a professional . |
| 20 | Thus while generally speaking all terms listed can be presumed to be unfair , this presumption may be contested by a seller who uses this type of term in specific situations . |
| 21 | When it is necessary to write more than one statement on a line , the statements may be separated by a colon " : " . |
| 22 | An exception may be illustrated by a passage from a classic biography , that of John Constable by Charles Leslie . |
| 23 | But one reason why on Thursday I shall for the first time be voting Conservative , with passionate conviction , may be illustrated by a meeting I attended in our constituency last Sunday , at which several hundred people were addressed by our four candidates . |
| 24 | This prejudice against close involvement with " the secular government may be illustrated by an anecdote related in the about Molla Gurani . |
| 25 | These sexual differences may be illustrated by an experiment of A. J. Bateman on the fruitfly Drosophila . |
| 26 | Eleven more are also doomed — but Mr Gerrard wants to save four others , whose fate may be fixed by a court . |
| 27 | A debenture may be fixed by a charge in the form of a mortgage covering specific assets of the company . |
| 28 | Where personal service of a document is required , it may be served by a court bailiff , or if the person to be served attends and is present at court , or in the court office , by any other officer of the court . |
| 29 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 30 | Even though expenditure in a particular year may be limited by a cash limit or capital expenditure ceiling , such constraints do not reduce the importance of appraisal . |