Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , an uncompetitive market structure may be maintained indefinitely because of barriers to entry and exit ; products are not , as in the model , homogeneous , but have differentiating characteristics which enable producers to raise prices without causing a total shift in demand to their rivals ; and finally , purchasers lack perfect information and hence may pay higher prices than they would if aware of alternative , cheaper , sources of supply . |
| 2 | Indexing may be conducted manually or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer . |
| 3 | Also , the increase in the number of liquid or soft stools , an important item of CDAI , may be caused either because of worsening of the intestinal disease or as a side effect of enteral nutrition . |
| 4 | A blanket punishment such as detention of a whole class must only be used as a last resort , otherwise people who are quite innocent may be detained incorrectly or unlawfully . ’ |
| 5 | These exemptions may be granted either as block exemptions for certain categories of agreement ( e.g. co-operative research and development , exclusive distribution , exclusive purchasing ) , or alternatively on a case by case basis . |
| 6 | No options may be granted later than the tenth anniversary of the Scheme . |
| 7 | It may be noted incidentally that if in any land the poll is higher than the national average one or more patties in it may receive a correspondingly larger allotment of seats , which , since the number of constituency seats can not be changed , will entail a larger allotment of list seats . |
| 8 | Pass all through the mill of your mind and do n't use forms unmeaningly , like buttons on the back of a coat … although house building is very much a practical art the practical elements may be met gracefully and pleasantly , there is scope for dignity , humour and even romance . |
| 9 | For example a second-order function , , may be defined so that the probability that the velocity at one point lies between u 1 and u 1 + du 1 and that at the other point simultaneously lies between u 2 and u 2 + du 2 is . |
| 10 | Expatriates may be sent overseas because there is a specific demand for their skills , because they are needed to train local employees in particular procedures or because the expatriates themselves are to receive training so that they can return to their home countries to pass on their newly acquired skills . |
| 11 | The value of diagnosing a condition that presents late in life with often only trivial symptoms , may be questioned especially when this entails changing long established eating habits . |
| 12 | Although all four strategies may be separated so as to discuss their major characteristics , in practice countries commonly adopt a combination of two or more types ; ( Murley , 1991 ; UN ECE , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | Damages may be denied even where the plaintiff is able to establish a factual link between the breach of duty and his damage . |
| 14 | The program may be run interactively or in batch from the process directory when the LIFESPAN process is not running . |
| 15 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 16 | Equally , however , some changes of a major character may be achieved more or less peacefully . |
| 17 | They may be defended simply because in certain circumstances not helping is to be preferred to helping . |
| 18 | The strategic review process may be represented schematically as follows : — |
| 19 | The client 's experience of anxiety for each of the five trials of each target may be represented graphically as in Figure 4.11 . |
| 20 | In the second instance , some posts may be advertised repeatedly but to no avail . |
| 21 | Equally , an obligation may be imposed even where there is no contractual relationship , provided it is obvious from the facts . |
| 22 | PATIENTS needing non-emergency treatment will face hospital checks to see if their health authority will pay — and may be turned away if the doctor sending them is from a district not having a contract with that hospital . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , the various oxides of sulphur and nitrogen may be turned briefly but importantly into radicals ( charged components ) of acids , sulphuric and nitric , which tend to make rain more acid . |
| 24 | Hence , dilating the nostrils may indicate anxiety , but may also indicate great interest in another horse , or , more simply , the nostrils may be dilated so that the horse can smell and learn something more of its environment . |
| 25 | Since aspects of each can be understood better in the light of their absence , each may be noticed more when it is not there than when it is . |
| 26 | It may be noticed too that our analysis rather simplified the relation between awareness and spontaneity , taking account of the awareness only up to the rousing of the impulse . |
| 27 | So the price may be tossed hither and thither like a shuttlecock , as one side or the other gets the better in the ‘ higgling and bargaining ’ of the market . |
| 28 | In other words , why do some groups advancing certain interests enjoy access to centres of government policy where their case may be made peacefully and with apparently good chance of acceptance , while others advancing different interests find access to these forums extremely difficult , if not impossible ? |
| 29 | An understanding of what lies between the parties may be made easier if we refer to some of the statutory provisions in the Rules of the Supreme Court regarding the taxation of costs . |
| 30 | The job of installing a new inspection chamber may be made easier if a pre-cast concrete inspection chamber or one of the modern glass reinforced plastic inspection chambers is used . |