Example sentences of "may [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A Specimen Corporate Finance engagement letter is set out in Section 1101.1 We are required to document why it is we consider the client may properly be regarded as a Corporate Finance client . |
| 4 | while the portion of the Forest at present planted under the Acts may properly be managed with a view to producing the most profitable crop of trees , the remainder of the Forest should henceforth , in the interest of the nation at large , be managed with a view to the preservation of its natural aspect and condition as a Forest of surpassing beauty and unique character . |
| 5 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
| 6 | ( i ) A member of staff ( including a partner or director ) other than a solicitor who holds a current practising certificate may only be named in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , if the status of that person is unambiguously stated . |
| 7 | This alarm may only be de-activated by a key holder , and the noise alone is such that the prospective thief will hopefully abandon his anti-social ideas . |
| 8 | The effect of this is to make clear that registration as an RFL does not entitle the RFL to undertake work which may only be done by a solicitor , and also that an RFL must not put solicitors or recognised bodies in breach of rules , or other requirements of conduct . |
| 9 | Application may only be made by a foreign lawyer , i.e. a person who is not an English ( or Welsh ) solicitor or barrister but who is a member , and entitled to practise as such , of a legal profession regulated within a jurisdiction outside England and Wales . |
| 10 | 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) ) . |
| 11 | When selecting utterances to practise these intonation patterns it may be more difficult to find complete utterances with the same overall tune , because the intonation pattern may only be carried by a segment of the utterance . |
| 12 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 13 | Quite often , the djinn are simply invisible , and may only be identified by a whiff of cinnamon in the air . |
| 14 | Tight coupling relations may only be used in a package module . |
| 15 | Tight coupling relations may only be used in a package module . |
| 16 | ( ii ) The term ‘ legal executive ’ may only be used in a practitioner 's publicity , including stationery , to refer to a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives ; and ‘ trainee solicitor ’ to refer to a person under articles of training . |
| 17 | An SPR may only be passed on a limited number of times ; once this limit has been reached a user must be forced , by a privileged user , to accept the SPR . |
| 18 | Oakeshott suggests that the state ‘ may perhaps be understood as an unresolved tension between the two irreconcilable dispositions represented by the words societas and universitas ’ . |
| 19 | For , as has been suggested in the texts reviewed , the old paradigms may merely be replaced by a new form of determinism , this time based on space . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) The grounds on which different types of application may competently be refused by a licensing board are those mentioned opposite the respective types of application set out below . |
| 21 | Already trimmed by about 1m from its bloated strength in the mid-1980s , it may soon be reduced by a further 500,000 or so . |
| 22 | Dr David Horrobin , whose Efamol company specialises in evening primrose oil , says this natural product is approved by the National Health Service for the treatment of breast pain and certain forms of eczema and may soon be used as a way of preventing diabetics going blind or suffering from kidney disorders . |
| 23 | There is a standards battle currently being fought and for the moment it looks almost as if consumers may soon be confronted with a variety of competing , incompatible television systems in different regions of the world . |
| 24 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 25 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 26 | Dictionary entries may thus be represented by an index corresponding to each headword , followed by a list of indices corresponding to each of the definition words . |
| 27 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 28 | Type D may best be described as a culture of relations and co-operation , where opportunities exist for creative thinking . |
| 29 | Revision of aseptic technique may best be covered by one-to-one teaching , whereas the care of the terminally ill patient may best be discussed at a tutorial . |
| 30 | Barber may best be remembered as a founder member in 1948 of the Fine Chemicals Group of the Society of Chemical Industry , and later as its chairman . |