Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the method is viable because the sample may be matched to objective criteria or proportions in a manner that is appropriate to the particular research exercise . |
| 2 | It is proposed , therefore , to establish a separate scheme under which options may be granted to overseas employees in excess of the £100 000 limit up to four times annual remuneration . |
| 3 | Unemployment benefit may be cut to six months |
| 4 | The patient may be referred to such agencies either during or at the end of treatment . |
| 5 | In such instances , after discussion with the patient when appropriate , these problems may be referred to other members of the health care team such as medical staff , dieticians , physiotherapists or social workers . |
| 6 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 7 | Certain categories of staff have more chance of being offered accommodation , but this may be limited to single applicants living a reasonable distance from the parental home . |
| 8 | Heavy-metal cations , such as cadmium , nickel , lead , manganese and mercury , may be bound to colloidal particles in the soil . |
| 9 | two ice axe loops with top straps which may be adjusted to varying heights ; two compression straps at each side ; d-ring positioned on each shoulder harness strap . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation . |
| 12 | Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times . |
| 13 | There is a recognition that export goods outside the Community may be made to different standards so that , by virtue of s10(4) , this will provide a defence . |
| 14 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 15 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 16 | Whereas the primary directions can be applied universally , the secondary may be applied to certain conditions or ailments . |
| 17 | Although cans have been considered here , the principle may be applied to other containers , eg milk cartons , soap powder boxes etc . |
| 18 | For example in 534–6 , the -6 may be applied to all subdivisions of 534 , such as 534.63 . |
| 19 | little use ; fresh leaf may be applied to aching joints in a warm poultice |
| 20 | Derrida 's assertion is , of course , a summary of his thinking on language in general and may be applied to individual texts . |
| 21 | A special solar-reflective white paint may be applied to these panels which will increase the life-span of the surface . |
| 22 | RSI , by the use of an infrared ( IR ) line scanner , microwave radiometer , radar scatterometer and two sophisticated versions of the familiar optical camera offered a complete range of airborne remote sensing techniques , particularly as they may be applied to natural resources management . |
| 23 | This correction factor may be applied to metric measures of diameter . |
| 24 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 25 | Where parenteral ivermectin is used the interval after first treatment may be extended to five weeks due to its residual activity . |
| 26 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 27 | Fifty-year copyright may be extended to seventy years |
| 28 | Works of art of ‘ the same high quality ’ as the Guggenheim Museum in New York , and encompassing ‘ all the essential works in the Guggenheim collection ’ will be loaned to the new museum , initially for a period of twenty years , though this may be extended to seventy-five years or indefinitely , according to the agreement . |
| 29 | It is initially intended to launch these schemes in Germany and Switzerland but they may be extended to other countries later . |
| 30 | Counting the valve springs can be misleading as single springs may be fitted to earlier heads . |