Example sentences of "may [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The information disclosed in published accounts may relate to a single company or to a group of companies under a holding company . |
| 2 | In Japan there are negative correlations with per cent of research and with production involvement in design , which may relate to the tentative hypothesis offered about the negative correlations with technical success . |
| 3 | The ‘ broken column ’ may relate to the traditional graveyard image of premature death , as well as to the ‘ broken stone ’ of section three where ‘ stone images/ Are raised ’ . |
| 4 | One reason for these variable results may relate to the differing degress of stringency applied to the diagnosis and confirmation of complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 5 | This association , as implied previously , may relate to the antinatriuretic action of insulin which is perhaps the common link between obesity and elevated blood pressure ( Bjorntorp , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | The decrease in mortality in the Minnessota study may relate to the high percentage of colonoscopies performed rather than the faecal occult blood testing per se and if so , lends support to the concept of endocsopic screening as proposed by Atkin . |
| 7 | A landlord , who is not fully taxable , may grant to a fully-taxable tenant a tenant 's repairing lease with a clause giving the landlord the right to any indemnity from the tenant for necessary repairs . |
| 8 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 9 | Protesters and their organisations may fall to the covert scrutiny or surveillance of the police through Special Branch ( and M15 ) . |
| 10 | To help us draw a line between the incidental transfer of information , and communication proper , we may appeal to an important idea of the philosopher Grice ( 1957 ) . |
| 11 | If any branch is not satisfied with the decision of the branch they may appeal to the Regional Committee . |
| 12 | Those who are removed from the Register by the Professional Conduct Committee or Health Committee and are aggrieved by that decision may appeal to the appropriate Appeal Court for the part of the UK in which they reside . |
| 13 | Any party to proceedings may appeal to the High Court against a magistrates ' court decision to make or refuse to make an order under the Children Act ( s94(1) ) . |
| 14 | Those who have recourse to the deus ex machina of lethal rays or thunderbolts from outer space may incline to the former view , but only at the expense of disregarding the abundant evidence in the stratigraphic record of a correlation between mass extinctions and physical events on earth ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
| 15 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 16 | Yes , I readily accept that , er my general proposition is in er connection with the settlement pattern of York , and it is necessary clearly to have er careful regard to that existing settlement pattern , erm if I may refer to the helpful plan that has in fact been produced , I believe by the County Council , it is in fact an appendix to B two zero zero four , er this plan does actually indicate the general extent of the settlements outside the outer ring road of York . |
| 17 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
| 18 | Children evidently realize this quite early in the process of language acquisition , and accept the fact that different words may refer to the same entity — e.g. , our dog , Fred , that wretched animal , and so on . |
| 19 | Genetics may contribute to a specific vulnerability , or may operate indirectly by predisposing to obesity or personality traits that make restrictive dieting and anorexia nervosa more likely . |
| 20 | An atypical presentation may contribute to a diagnostic delay , although this also occurred in patients with more specific symptoms . |
| 21 | We have demonstrated expression of ET-1 in pulmonary endocrine cells , and reported that ET-1 expression is increased in the lung vasculature of patients with pulmonary hypertension , which may contribute to the medial hyperplasia and intimal fibrosis of this disorder . |
| 22 | Business people may contribute to the actual delivery of education . |
| 23 | Many factors may contribute to the increased incidence of large-vessel disease in diabetic patients , as in non-diabetic subjects ; however , the increased incidence in diabetics has not been fully explained in terms of known risk factors ( Jarrett et al , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | The frequent expression of the various xenobiotic metabolising enzymes may contribute to the anti-cancer drug resistance that is characteristic of carcinoma of the colon , and also to chemical carcinogenesis in the colon as these enzymes can metabolise both exogenous and endogenous compounds , which are implicated in the development of colon cancer . |
| 25 | Our study shows that CT imaging was adequate in about one-third of patients at hospitals with limited experience of testicular cancer , which may contribute to the lower survival of patients treated in local hospitals . |
| 26 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |
| 27 | On a more speculative note , an interaction between glial and neuronal oscillators may contribute to the circadian time-keeping mechanism located within the suprachiasmatic nucleus . |
| 28 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 29 | Several factors may contribute to the sustained depolarization during a tetanus ; these include summation of AMPA receptor-mediated e.p.s.ps , depolarizing shifts in the Cl - and K + reversal potentials due to build up of intracellular Cl - and extracellular K + . |
| 30 | Other fields for study include the proliferative response in healing gastric ulcers and the changes which may contribute to the clinicopathological diagnosis of Barrett 's oesophagus . |