Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Research leading to the degrees of Master of Philosophy ( MPhil ) or Doctor of Philosophy ( DPhil ) may be undertaken in all Faculties .
2 In practical terms , business across national frontiers may be conducted in several ways .
3 The " membership " of any one social class may be determined by such factors as : traditions family beliefs , values , and attitudes occupation education wealth or income personal aspirations
4 Ideal-typically , positivism may be characterized by such notions as ‘ fact ’ , ‘ will ’ , ‘ power ’ , ‘ instrumentalism ’ , ‘ discretion ’ , ‘ mala prohibita ’ , etc .
5 The patient may be referred to such agencies either during or at the end of treatment .
6 For example , UNCLASSIFIED and RESTRICTED may be defined by some organisations to be suitable for microfiching .
7 One of the administrative advantages is that central government can ameliorate the monopoly of information which may be possessed by such agents .
8 Certainly no generalisation can be made except that the successful diffusion of the knowledge of soil conserving practices is often one essential change that is required — even although the knowledge may be possessed by some cultivators already .
9 Although CSP epitope variation may be limited in some regions , the extensive polymorphism seen in Africa will be difficult to encompass in multivalent vaccines .
10 If it were decided to impose a breakeven constraint , and assuming that there is more than one product price involved , the target may be achieved in many ways .
11 Alternatively , or in addition , the manager 's performance may be assessed against some criteria after a reasonable period has elapsed .
12 Other researchers express more cautious optimism as they point out that the carbon dioxide fertilization effect may be offset in some regions by changes in climate .
13 Such kinds of nationalism , which may be strengthened in some cases by the dominance of a particular religion , are not , in their most intense form , generally conducive to the development of a liberal democratic society , as may be seen from certain current trends in Eastern Europe .
14 The education of children in care may be affected by many factors , including social background , care experience and attitudes of careers and schools .
15 The census of 1991 may be affected by these processes and since the census returns will form the basis of some resource-allocation calculations , severe underestimation of the needs of some areas may be the result .
16 Self-employed persons may be affected by these provisions as purchasers and users of articles or substances and , in addition , many will have duties as members of one of the classes of persons quoted in the Article .
17 In general , the actual psychological causation of an utterance may be related to all sorts of different degrees of endorsement in one 's actual beliefs and attitudes of what one is meaning to say .
18 It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team .
19 This is usually about 18 days after infection , but it may be delayed for several months when arrested larval development occurs .
20 Research in biotechnology will continue , although controls may be imposed in some areas .
21 Copies of these publications are well worth obtaining as permanent additions to personal libraries , and may be supported by such articles as : ‘ The Population of Elizabethan England ’ by E.E .
22 ‘ A cape of the same colour and material as the coat , and reaching to the tips of the fingers when the arm is extended , having a rolling collar of velvet 3 inches broad , and closing at the throat with a long loop … may be worn by all officers when not on duty with troops under arms . ’
23 Many of the familiar aspects of modernization , such as a rise of individualism and of specification in material culture use and scientific-rational order , may be traced in these studies , but the evidence provides a means of analysing such changes in terms of the structural organization of everyday objects for the population as a whole , and acts as a balance to the more common literary and self-reflective accounts or these changes .
24 ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him .
25 This does not mean , however , that the scientific and ideological elements can not be distinguished ; and a further distinction may be made between those classifications which are more descriptive and those which have a larger theoretical content .
26 Although third party claims may be made in all areas of international law , the topic will be examined only in three specified areas .
27 Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept .
28 As in the static model , the basis for comparison is of critical importance , and the question may be posed in several ways .
29 This process of adaptation and acceptance may be broken into several phases which can proceed at varying speeds and may be complete only after several generations have passed .
30 The downgradings in the sector may be justified on some housebuilders , but others look severely undervalued at current levels .
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