Example sentences of "may [adv] be [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 2 | Action : Updates may only be made to the latest approved baseline for the specified root package — the discrepancy must be resolved manually |
| 3 | Applications under s25 ( secure accommodation orders ) and s102 ( police warrant of assistance ) may only be transferred to a county court to consolidate with other pending family proceedings arising out of the same circumstances ( APO , art 7(3) ) . |
| 4 | Some information may only be released to the preferred bidder after phase III . |
| 5 | Whilst it is not suggested that such behaviour is common , the temptation to copy , or at least to fail to acknowledge the other thesis as a source , is made stronger by the knowledge that such unscrupulous acts are very difficult to detect , because the original works , if unpublished , may only be known to the researchers and to their supervisors . |
| 6 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 7 | Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that such relationships as are displayed in the thesaurus may not be transferred to the index . |
| 9 | Generally unschooled in the scientific method , judges have the legal duty of deciding what may or may not be presented to a jury . |
| 10 | These self-imposed restrictions may not be limited to the negative emotions . |
| 11 | But he conceded that rising gas prices , while the cost of coal was falling , could mean further developments of gas-fired stations may not be justified to the same extent in future . |
| 12 | Terms may not be added to a contract once it has been made . |
| 13 | About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress . |
| 14 | He quotes a figure for deaths from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol and states this may be an underestimate as ‘ many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ’ distress . ’ |
| 15 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 16 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no science that is not capable of additions ; there is no art that may not be carried to a still higher perfection . |
| 18 | Such techniques are available in the axisymmetric case , and may soon be extended to the colliding wave situation . |
| 19 | It seems likely that greatly increased development funds from the European Economic Community ( EEC ) may soon be channelled to the Western Isles . |
| 20 | Common lanterns may easily be adapted to the purpose . ’ |
| 21 | If applicants are unable to comply with 5(i) then they may still be admitted to the panel if able to demonstrate a suitable level of experience . |
| 22 | As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter . |
| 23 | Most complications ( n=7 ) occurred in the first third of the series and may partly be ascribed to a ‘ learning process ’ with the operation . |
| 24 | Material may also be transferred to the board by making a pattern of the diagram of the required size on paper . |
| 25 | The word may also be applied to the small cursive script developed from the uncial . |
| 26 | Many of the points which are made concerning alphabetical indexes in Chapters 15 , 16 and 17 may also be applied to the construction of indexes to classification schemes . |
| 27 | Reference may also be made to the relevant Domesday texts and the published volumes of the curia regis and other rolls , some of which make useful contributions to local knowledge . |
| 28 | A complaint may also be made to the Commission . |
| 29 | Reference may also be made to the Sale of Goods Act 1893 , s.I(3) ; Timus v. Littlewood [ 1916 ] 1 K.B . |
| 30 | General SA ( see also ) references may also be made to an entire group of headings as an economy measure , for instance , |