Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal sources provide a view of intangible aspects of the environment that may be filtered out by written media . |
| 2 | Solid particles may be filtered out by yarn packages and by fabrics , and , if the deposit is dark , stains occur or the stains can absorb colour and become dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 5 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 6 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 7 | Many questions are answered in writing , but those that receive oral answers may be followed up by supplementary questions . |
| 8 | These may be followed up by agreement between members and the College some time after the programme . |
| 9 | Come with your healing , reconciling power , that fear and oppression may be cast out by love , prejudice be replaced by trust , hostility give way to gentleness . |
| 10 | Cash deposits may be made up by the customer into standard bank packets and transported by security carrier to Cash Centres , where the credits are checked and applied direct to the account . |
| 11 | Unlike haemonchosis in sheep , grazing cattle over two years old are relatively immune although this may be broken down by drought conditions which lead to poor nutrition and heavy challenge from congregation of animals around watering points . |
| 12 | These problems may be sought out by a law centre with a view to running ‘ campaigns ’ to benefit all those in the local community who may be in similar difficulties . |
| 13 | ‘ Power games may be played out by others around you . ’ |
| 14 | The bang as it bounces may be picked up by a hearing-aid or by a vibrator , thus avoiding that sticky mess on top of the stove . |
| 15 | When working with mice in an isolator they may be picked up by the base of their tail using a pair of large forceps with rubber sleeves on their tips . |
| 16 | Others may be put off by the complicated forms . |
| 17 | Here the position may be summed up by saying that the control task may recently have been added to the conceptive ideological and translating practices , but it is these latter which constitute the lawyer 's work , and in terms of which his job should be sociologically defined . |
| 18 | The electron velocity at the point z may be worked out by the simple consideration that the electron gains kinetic energy at the expense of its potential energy ( the same idea as in mechanics ) . |
| 19 | These may be triggered off by someone who tries unwisely to hurry the widow into the full realisation of her loss before she is ready to accept it . |
| 20 | An alteration in your working pattern or routine is indicated — and may be triggered off by developments around the 24th . |
| 21 | Moreover , 70 per cent or more of a spray aimed at foliage can be lost in droplets falling to the soil , and deposits on plants may be washed down by rain . |
| 22 | Some activities , distribution , haulage , advertising and marketing , may be carried through by specialist firms who also provide these services for other industries . |
| 23 | The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director . |
| 24 | Problems also arise in countries such as Belgium and Spain , where implementation may be carried out by national or regional government . |
| 25 | This routine may be carried out by domestic staff , or by care staff and domestic staff working together . |
| 26 | The latter measures may be carried out by a company representative or the organisation may choose to bring in an outside specialist to run this part of the communications exercise . |
| 27 | The audit may be carried out by the organization 's own staff or by external consultants . |
| 28 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 29 | A traffic survey is being carried out at Sappers Corner , an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Hartlepool , and it has raised hopes that improvement works may be carried out by Cleveland County Council . |
| 30 | If an old person is admitted to local authority residential care while still having a house to sell , some of the value of the property when sold may be claimed back by the authority in retrospective residential charges . |