Example sentences of "may be [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first attack of herpes in the adult , sexually active woman can often go undiagnosed because the primary lesions may be hidden away in the folds of the labia and close examination is needed to identify the ulceration . |
| 2 | If one set of product designs can be used as the basis for the development of another , then a CAD system may be employed effectively in the production of those drawings . |
| 3 | This change during the Regency may be noted even in the detail of interiors . |
| 4 | Under current European Community regulations , individual patients may be referred elsewhere in the Community for treatment in certain specified circumstances , with the prior authorisation of the Department . |
| 5 | There are many examples similar to ( b ) ; perhaps the best rule to give is that the tonic syllable will tend to occur on the last lexical word in the tone-unit , but may be placed earlier in the tone-unit if there is a word there with greater importance to what is being said . |
| 6 | ‘ Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field , till there be no place , that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth ’ . |
| 7 | This prescription may be made both in the scope provisions of the Convention and in its substantive provisions . |
| 8 | In practice , the division may be honoured more in the breach than the observance ; the first Church Commissioner ( who is broadly responsible for its financial as distinct from political or pastoral duties ) is also chairman of the CBF . |
| 9 | Each man is thrown back on himself alone and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart . |
| 10 | But in the light of the recent IRA attack in nearby Oxford city centre , there 's concern that terrorists may be based somewhere in the Thames Valley . |
| 11 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 12 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 13 | The rate at which compensation claims are being lodged against medical practitioners may be escalating faster in the United Kingdom than in North America , and there are fears that if this trend continues unchecked the cost of litigation may ultimately damage the quality of healthcare by eroding already restrained budgets . |
| 14 | Guild members are not content with the position in the cooperative world which may be summed up in the saying of the man ‘ My wife and I are one , and I am that one ’ . |
| 15 | These various factors which influence the value of an option may be summed up in the following functional statement : . |
| 16 | Perhaps the least interesting is the possibility that the change of context modifies the way in which the CS is perceived , either because of some change in the physical nature of the signal ( the properties of an auditory cue , for instance , are likely to change according to the shape of the space in which it is presented ) or because there is some change in the way the cue impinges on the animal ( if different contexts promote different patterns of orienting behaviour , the same cue , defined physically , may be experienced differently in the contexts ) . |
| 17 | If the suspect is under arrest , he may be interrogated only in the vicinity of the scene of the crime and in proximity of time to its commission . |
| 18 | In other cases , a formula may be spelled out in the agreement showing how the market price is to be established . |
| 19 | Table 1 may be used anywhere in the schedules , entirely at the discretion of the classifier . |
| 20 | Coding is required but a selection of responses may be used verbatim in the final report to add interest . |
| 21 | Planning requires the identification of tasks and matching the means with which they may be carried out in the time available and under the conditions prevailing . |
| 22 | We will now consider how pivoting may be carried out in the framework we have outlined . |
| 23 | This may be carried out in the candidate 's home country or in the overseas location . |
| 24 | Video images may be previewed either in the icon boxes at the bottom of the screen or in the main window . |
| 25 | It is hoped that this gallery may be restored here in the future . |
| 26 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 27 | These different elements may be brought together in the following generalization of ( 9–12 ) : where r is the ( exogenous ) constant rate of interest . |
| 28 | The vacuum field equations appropriate to region IV of the colliding plane wave problem may be taken here in the form of equations ( 6.22a-f ) . |
| 29 | The leader and deputy leader of the party shall be elected or re-elected from amongst the Commons members of the Parliamentary Labour Party at the party conference … and with the provision as may be set out in the standing orders for the time being in force . |