Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These would include its use in emergency airway management in the field and in cervical spine injury as the neck may be maintained in the neutral position during insertion and laryngoscopy is not needed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Activity with tools may be undertaken by the whole class as a supervised group , or may be later activities undertaken by small groups of their own volition , and the circumstances under which this latter is to take place must be carefully organized in advance . |
| 4 | And at VAG , if a house purchase falls through , further survey fees ( in addition to the one building society and one private survey already carried out ) may be reimbursed with the prior approval of the personnel manager . |
| 5 | BRITISH BUSINESSMAN John Ward may be reimbursed by the Kenyan Government for the £500,000 he says he has spent investigating the murder of his daughter Julie in the Masai Mara reserve five years ago . |
| 6 | The tentacle pores are relatively large armed with 2 flat scale-like tentacle scales , and occasionally the first arm pore may have 3 , the third may be hidden beneath the other two . |
| 7 | One plate may simply override the other , but another possibility is that a ‘ flake ’ of continental crust from the upper surface of the downgoing plate may be thrust over the adjacent plate for a distance of perhaps 100 km or more . |
| 8 | The occasional outbreaks of Type II ostertagiasis in young adult sheep in the spring may be treated with the same anthelmintics . |
| 9 | Therefore some of the higher activity of Ca 2 + observed in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease may be caused by the lower pH . |
| 10 | This increase may be caused by the increased alcohol consumption in the country because most pancreatitis episodes are caused by alcohol in Finnish studies . |
| 11 | The figures do not take into account the stress which may be caused by the competitive element involved ; they relate simply to the physical benefits . ) |
| 12 | Under the statute , such a warrant may be granted on the spurious ground that the police suspect that public order offences may be committed by large numbers of people . |
| 13 | No options may be granted after the tenth anniversary of shareholders ' approval of the Executive Scheme . |
| 14 | The draftsman should , therefore , consider whether to impose on the tenant a limit to the number of persons who may be employed in the demised property in order to avoid overloading the available facilities . |
| 15 | Although the phrase ‘ care workers ’ is not in general use , the term has been chosen to describe a wide range of people who may be employed in the voluntary or statutory sectors and who have responsibility for the services made available in the community to support old people and their caring relatives . |
| 16 | Such decisions of the Commission may be challenged before the European Court , provided that the complainant company has been directly and adversely affected by the conduct of which complaint has been made . |
| 17 | The oral papillae are slightly flattened and the distalmost papillae may be widened at the free end or in some specimens larger than the others almost opercular . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The agent , having prepared particulars , will advertise and circularise potential purchasers , but the sale price may be presented in the following ways . |
| 20 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 21 | When syntactic information is not needed for further processing , it may be cleared from the short-term store . |
| 22 | The period in tort may be lengthened by the Latent Damage Act 1986 . |
| 23 | Mood-altering substances or behaviours may be discovered by the individual sufferer specifically to alleviate the disorder of mood or to provide a sense of elation . |
| 24 | Women ( like men ) may be tempted towards the cheapest option ( an APP ) rather than joining a good occupational scheme ( if this is available ) or paying the substantial personal pension contributions additional to the APP likely to be necessary to secure a really adequate personal pension in retirement . |
| 25 | Unanimity is required for all important decisions , although in cases of disagreement the matter may be referred to the federal government for decision . |
| 26 | Bills relating to Scotland alone may be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee unless ten members object . |
| 27 | It may be defined as the complex body of shared values and beliefs of an organisation . |
| 28 | Dementia may be defined as the global impairment of higher mental functioning including the loss of memory , problem solving ability , the use of learned skills , the loss of social skills and emotional control . |
| 29 | This phenomenon may be defined as the temporary cessation in development of a nematode at a precise point in its parasitic development . |
| 30 | Personal income may be defined as the algebraic sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights between the beginning and end of the period in question . |