Example sentences of "may be [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This position has been modified , however , by the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 , under which a Bill may be presented for the Royal Assent provided it has been passed by the House of Commons and other procedural requirements complied with , although it has not been passed by the House of Lords . |
| 2 | Again , although skewness may be computed for the central segment of the distribution , for most purposes broader spreads are used . |
| 3 | The subtle , instinctive mind pattern of an insect may be looking for the particular infrared , pheromone emission which signifies the presence of his lady-love . |
| 4 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 5 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |
| 6 | Where there is an urgent need to protect a child an ex parte application may be made for the following orders : ( a ) an emergency protection order ; ( b ) a prohibited steps or a specific issue order under s8 ; ( c ) a recovery order ; ( d ) a warrant under s48(9) ( police assistance in the execution of an EPO ) . |
| 7 | Leaving the track a pathless beeline may be made for the lower end of the trees , there ascending a short way to find Yordas Cave . |
| 8 | All this may be done for the best of reasons but it only ensures that children bottle up their feelings as well as their tears , which , as we have seen in previous chapters , can have far-reaching effects . |
| 9 | Alternatively , instruments incorporating electrodes may be required for the iontophoretic injection of tracers , such as horseradish peroxidase ( HRP ) , into individual cells in situ . |
| 10 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 11 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator Terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 12 | Elsewhere in Britain a new type of museum developed in America to view the wrecks of sunken ships in situ may be used for the 30,000 ton ‘ Lusitania ’ torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German U-boat in 1915 with the loss of 1,198 lives . |
| 13 | However , it may be used for the following reasons : ( 1 ) The smaller company is highly active and acquisitive with motivated management and is seeking to acquire a larger but moribund target company . |
| 14 | This mode is carried forward from the 1954 Convention , and it is expressly provided that ‘ if exceptional circumstances so require ’ diplomatic channels may be used for the same purpose . |
| 15 | There must also be no opportunity for anyone to claim that you have been given , or are giving , preferential treatment which puts you or others at an advantage , for example , over other organisations who may be tendering for the same work or other colleagues working for the organisation . |
| 16 | External factors may be blamed for the general depression of mood and blamed for various damaging consequences but no connection may be made between the depressed mood and damaging consequences and the continuing use of the substance or behaviour of addiction . |
| 17 | These arguments are attractive , and might well justify private property in personal possessions , and also such productive assets as may be needed for the satisfactory fulfillment of an individual 's human potential . |
| 18 | I may be heading for the infernal scrap-heap , but I still have my professional pride . |
| 19 | Yet another complicating factor is that the account given of the generic team 's work with elderly clients is bound to be only a partial exemplification of whatever advantages may be claimed for the generic model , whether of professional practice or of staff development . |
| 20 | These cases may be discounted for the present purpose , which is not to see what lay people believed or imagined about the law , but what distinctions and doctrines the jurists who developed it were employing . |
| 21 | Whilst the New South Wales scheme may be criticised for the curious distribution of conduct between the first three categories of sexual assault , it is less fair to condemn it , as some commentators have done , because of the way in which it has been judicially interpreted . |
| 22 | 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 . |