Example sentences of "may [adv] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme is only operational in England but may eventually be extended to Scotland and Wales . |
| 2 | Here we are concerned with the basic principles , on which all else depends and which may eventually be applied to longer movements as well as to short sections . |
| 3 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 4 | Mail may only be sent to other LIFESPAN users using option 6.5.0 — Send Mail Message . |
| 5 | Action : Updates may only be made to the latest approved baseline for the specified root package — the discrepancy must be resolved manually |
| 6 | Bundles of entries may only be transferred to higher level groups and only by the leader of the higher group . |
| 7 | Applications under s25 ( secure accommodation orders ) and s102 ( police warrant of assistance ) may only be transferred to a county court to consolidate with other pending family proceedings arising out of the same circumstances ( APO , art 7(3) ) . |
| 8 | The Information Memorandum may only be released to potential acquirors once we have received the signed confidentiality letter . |
| 9 | Some information may only be released to the preferred bidder after phase III . |
| 10 | Whilst it is not suggested that such behaviour is common , the temptation to copy , or at least to fail to acknowledge the other thesis as a source , is made stronger by the knowledge that such unscrupulous acts are very difficult to detect , because the original works , if unpublished , may only be known to the researchers and to their supervisors . |
| 11 | Managership of a module may only be changed to another user in the same branch of the user tree as the current manager ( ie. either an ascendant or descendant of the current manager ) . |
| 12 | Ownership of a module may only be changed to another user in the same branch of the user tree as the current owner ( ie. either an ascendant or descendant of the current owner ) . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 14 | The obese diabetic ( Ideal body weight > 120 per cent : Metropolitan Life Insurance Company , 1959 ) must be encouraged to lose weight as this has been found to have a blood-pressure-lowering effect which may or may not be related to concomitant reduction of dietary sodium ( Reisin et al , 1978 ; Tuck et al , 1981 ; Fagerberg et al , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods . |
| 16 | In all four clustered contractions were reported , which may or may not be related to swallowing , which may be peristaltic in nature , or which develop simultaneously at different levels of the oesophagus . |
| 17 | But as family size may not be tending to zero , it is evident that income and material benefits are not the only considerations in determining family size . |
| 18 | As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state . |
| 19 | It is also stipulated in the agreement that the only works of art that may not be transferred to Bilbao from New York are those that are subject to American legal restrictions , or works that are too fragile to travel . |
| 20 | It is important to remember that such relationships as are displayed in the thesaurus may not be transferred to the index . |
| 21 | However , the number of self-injuries identified in Edinburgh through referrals to the Regional Poisoning Treatment Centre may have been an underestimate of the total number of cases referred to hospital ( Kreitman 1977 ) , and , in addition , a high proportion of patients with self-injuries may not be referred to hospital at all ( Kennedy and Kreitman 1973 ) . |
| 22 | At the same time it affirms that academic staff may not be dismissed for holding particular beliefs or following particular lines of inquiry , and that senior staff may not be dismissed to be replaced by more junior , and cheaper , staff . |
| 23 | Counter arguments may not be employed to full effect , and individual injustices ( perhaps involving parents who have been subject to wholly baseless accusations ) may not be exposed . |
| 24 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 25 | Sub-text : ‘ I have to convey my message , which is more important than yours ( and I may not be listening to you ) . ’ |
| 26 | Generally unschooled in the scientific method , judges have the legal duty of deciding what may or may not be presented to a jury . |
| 27 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 28 | These self-imposed restrictions may not be limited to the negative emotions . |
| 29 | Even if such a licence were issued , a copy may not be sent to me . ’ |
| 30 | But he conceded that rising gas prices , while the cost of coal was falling , could mean further developments of gas-fired stations may not be justified to the same extent in future . |