Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details of the science experiments which the astronaut will carry out may be revealed in the next week or two , Professor Heinz Wolff , of Brunel University , said . |
| 2 | No options may be granted after the tenth anniversary of shareholders ' approval of the Executive Scheme . |
| 3 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
| 4 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 5 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 6 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 7 | The ‘ King of the Mountains ’ prize may be decided on the 16th stage between St Etienne and La Bourboule , which ends with the Col de la Croix Morand ( 1401 metres ) and the Côte de Charlannes ( 1147 metres ) in the strange volcanic uplands of the Auvergne . |
| 8 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 9 | It suggests that injustices in this world may be rectified in the next . |
| 10 | We have since dummy suffixes may be interchanged in the second term on the right . |
| 11 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |
| 12 | According to Dr George Eisenbarth , who headed the Joslin team , a simpler version of the test may be developed within the next year , ‘ We and other labs are most certainly working on it , to predict who 's at the most risk of developing diabetes , ’ he declared . |
| 13 | This may be contrasted with the second type , the " attitude survey " , which aims at producing an accurate picture of people 's attitudes as a guide to their likely behaviour . |
| 14 | Ophiomyces frutectosus may be distinguished from the second N. Atlantic species , O. grandis , by the arrangement of the tentacle scales on the proximal pores ; O. grandis having up to 5 tentacle scales , two on the lateral arm plate and three on the ventral arm plate . |
| 15 | These may be transferred to the next generation when individual reproductive cells have been manipulated . |
| 16 | Assuming no undue delays this means that telematics may be adopted in the next few weeks . |
| 17 | Selection of a partner may be based in the first place largely on feeling for or about a parent . |
| 18 | Philosophy may be studied at the third — and fourth-year levels , for single honours and for joint honours , as well as for the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 19 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 20 | In this case , the system-wide logical LIFESPANCONFIGURATION may be reassigned by the second startup procedure before the first main image has accessed it . |
| 21 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
| 22 | Drainage may also be necessary and a pioneer crop may be required in the first year . |
| 23 | Where the time fixed for filing any document at court expires on a day when the court office is closed , the document may be filed on the next working day ( FPCR , r15(3) ; FPR , r1.5. ( 5 ) ) . |
| 24 | The metal chassis that has seen thousands of miles may have a new life as dustbins , the fractured windscreens will metamorphose into recyled drinking glasses , the plastic interior may be transformed into the next generation 's Super Marios and Ninja Turtles . |
| 25 | Wang Laboratories Inc plans to lay off more than 1,000 more people from its 13,500-strong workforce — a pale shadow of the 31,500 in March 1989 , and says that even more cuts may be needed in the next several months . |
| 26 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |
| 27 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |
| 28 | This happened to some extent to the Slavs who invaded Greece in the sixth century , but in the Balkans three distinct Slav groups may be identified by the tenth century — the ancestors of the present-day Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
| 29 | TWO options have been put forward in the literature : ( 1 ) Sivapithecus is related to humans , which has little support ; and ( 2 ) Sivapithecus is related to the orang-utan. both of these may be combined with the third possibility that the orang-utan is the nearest living relative to humans , although there is much evidence against this proposition ( Box 1 ) . |
| 30 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |