Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain powers of the court may be delegated to a single justice or a justices ' clerk . |
| 2 | Play , Dreams and Imitation in Childhood may be related to a whole series of studies of cognitive development by piaget . |
| 3 | This may be related to a relative lack of social stability : being more frequently single and in less permanent accommodation . |
| 4 | It may be seen as expressing the personality of the author , in accordance with the famous formula of the French scholar Buffon ( 1978 : xvii ) , that the style is the man ( ‘ le style est l'homme même ’ ) ; or it may be related to a literary movement or period ( e.g. futurist style , baroque style ) . |
| 5 | This problem may be related to a further question ; that is the relationship between the code and Salic law in general . |
| 6 | The process , in its emphasis on active leadership and unidirectional flow , may be likened to a hypodermic needle , with the active ingredient ( vision ) loaded into a syringe ( words ) which is injected into the patient ( subordinate ) to effect change . |
| 7 | This relationship may be likened to a crowded platform . |
| 8 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 9 | Small repairs may be made to a damaged surface by flooding the affected area with molten asphalt after the defective section has been cut out . |
| 10 | It is even conceivable that in the future the bubble policy may be applied to an entire city . |
| 11 | As habitus , this distinction between the Kantian and anti-Kantian aesthetic is both derived from material conditions , and in turn provides an insight into a classificatory scheme which may be applied to an infinite number of actual material and consumption domains . |
| 12 | There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ . |
| 13 | Thus if the value of ρ or a band is found to be less than ρ max may be assigned to a totally-symmetric mode . |
| 14 | Secondly , if a worker does not want that to happen , sufficient funds may be transferred to a commercial company to enable it to continue to pay pension entitlements , including index linking . |
| 15 | Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re-establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . |
| 16 | Such " consensual " , " common law " or " companionate " unions ( or " marriages " ) , however , may be recognized to a certain degree by society ( or even by the law ) . |
| 17 | Thus the experimental group may be exposed to a new type of physics course , whereas the control group follows the traditional course ; in every other respect the two groups are exactly comparable . |
| 18 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 19 | A music publishing contract may be offered to a developing artist after they have signed to a record company . |
| 20 | A brass plate may be engraved to a special order , perhaps to commemorate a special person or an occasion such as a Golden Wedding . |
| 21 | So , although these cats may be doomed to a disappointing sex life , in other respects they have fared remarkably well . |
| 22 | It is also now recognized that even where there may be some correlation between certain factors and certain forms of abuse , it is inappropriate to assume that the one causes the other ; both may be linked to a third but underlying set of structures and mechanisms . |
| 23 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 24 | This decision was subsequently approved by the Court of Appeal , but limited to cases where the assets comprised in both charges are the same , and it appears that a general floating charge on the whole of the undertaking may be postponed to a subsequent floating charge on a particular class of assets where the first charge contemplates the creation of the later charge . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the tutor may be allocated to a particular ward or unit to help to co-ordinate the learning programme . |
| 26 | We have seen how the vibration frequencies may be observed and how each may be allocated to a particular symmetry species . |
| 27 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 28 | Costs may be awarded to a successful private prosecutor out of central funds . |
| 29 | Although the range of facilities and services may be smaller , they may be provided to a high standard . |
| 30 | The parties should agree a period of time during which they can continue negotiations and the investors can undertake investigations without fear that the target may be sold to a third party . |