Example sentences of "[conj] may be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 2 | Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers . |
| 3 | The quality , calibre , extra capability and extra commitment that they give are well worth any time that may be given up to volunteer reserve service . |
| 4 | Personal sources provide a view of intangible aspects of the environment that may be filtered out by written media . |
| 5 | I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 . |
| 6 | I trust you will look favourably on both these applications and on any others that may be sent in by the various organisations within the village . |
| 7 | It is the sort of knowledge that may be laid down in rules and can be learned from books . |
| 8 | But if the negotiators do allow them to fail after all , or if the United States Congress rejects any compromise that may be worked out during the next two months , the effects will be disastrous . |
| 9 | This will record any restrictive covenants that may be set out in full in the body of the certificate or may more commonly be referred to in a transfer deed , which may be sewn into the back of the certificate . |
| 10 | Relocation company counsellors assigned to families moving to Britain also provide information on activities that may be taken up by the spouse . |
| 11 | They might very well , for example , relate to the sorts of implements that may be carried on the procession which even if they are not offensive weapons at the beginning of the procession may become so during its course . |
| 12 | Company policy may also specify a limit as to the number of surveys that may be carried out at company expense . |
| 13 | A far more impressive performance was turned in by Katabatic , who defeated three rivals in the Aintree Chase and may be seen out again before the season ends . |
| 14 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 15 | Dr Cox was given a 12-month suspended sentence and may be struck off . |
| 16 | If the patient is unconscious and will never regain consciousness , or is suffering from a progressive or fatal illness , then the respirator must be seen as heroic treatment and may be turned off , as in the case of Karen Quinlan , when it is no longer of any lasting benefit . |
| 17 | However , Byron Nelson , 79 , has a new hip and may be called on for duty . |
| 18 | ( a ) If during a break you are not allowed to leave your station and may be called on to perform some duties , you are entitled to be paid for that break . |
| 19 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |
| 20 | Many practitioners know this , and may be put off from benefiting from the undoubted if limited strengths of functional assessment . |
| 21 | An alteration in your working pattern or routine is indicated — and may be triggered off by developments around the 24th . |
| 22 | The death of a parent is a loss but it is an unavoidable loss and may be worked through in its effect . |
| 23 | The emphasis could well be changed once again , and may be switched back to the private sector , but in a new and different form — especially given the fact that an Urban Development Corporation was designated in Sheffield in March 1988 . |
| 24 | The increasing range of new and improved telecommunications services can have potentially profound effects on future travel and home-based employment opportunities , because certain types of jobs do not need face-to-face contact and may be carried out from home by the linking of the telephone to home computers or the use of other teleconferencing , text-handling or information-retrieval systems . |
| 25 | Of more practical value is the use of a cytology brush , either percutaneously or endoscopically which greatly improves the number of viable cells for analysis and may be carried out without removal of the guide wire used for stent insertion . |
| 26 | The leader and deputy leader of the party shall be elected or re-elected from amongst the Commons members of the Parliamentary Labour Party at the party conference … and with the provision as may be set out in the standing orders for the time being in force . |