Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essential information conveyed in this way may be denied completely to blind students , or if converted to simple raised lines may become confused and meaningless . |
| 2 | From this point , a single-track lane with many gates may be followed upriver to rejoin the road a mile short of Dent : a journey not recommended to anyone in a hurry . |
| 3 | There are trees here , inviting a picnic , and a pleasant anglers ' path may be followed up-river to bring Ben Stack , the most shapely of the mountains hereabouts , into close view . |
| 4 | Pupils may be asked directly to describe a rule for predicting how many matches would be needed for any number of boxes , or they may instead be asked how many would be needed for , say , 500 boxes and then asked about their methods as referred to below . |
| 5 | Although a habitat may be manipulated particularly to encourage a bird species or group of species , this would involve the conservation of other forms of wildlife essential to that bird 's existence . |
| 6 | If no such package is available , one may be created specifically to complete the work identified by the DC . |
| 7 | If no such package is available , one may be created specifically to complete the work identified by the DC . |
| 8 | If no such package is available , one may be created specifically to complete the work identified by the DC . |
| 9 | One last example may be given here to demonstrate the dangers of biographers copying each other 's errors . |
| 10 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 11 | However , where , as in the case of arithmetic , subject matter is defined by characteristic tasks which may be used to assess its attainment , criteria may be written subsequently to test items , as a description of typical items . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) The register may be rectified pursuant to an order of the court or by the registrar , subject to an appeal to the court , in any of the following cases , but subject to the provisions of this section : — ( a ) Subject to any express provisions of this Act to the contrary , where a court of competent jurisdiction has decided that any person is entitled to any estate right or interest in or to any registered land or charge , and as a consequence of such decision such court is of opinion that a rectification of the register is required , and makes an order to that effect ; ( b ) Subject to any express provision of this Act to the contrary , where the court , on the application in the prescribed manner of any person who is aggrieved by any entry made in , or by the omission of any entry from , the register , or by any default being made , or unnecessary delay taking place , in the making of any entry in the register , makes an order for the rectification of the register ; ( c ) In any case and at any time with the consent of all persons interested ; ( d ) Where the court or the registrar is satisfied that any entry in the register has been obtained by fraud ; ( e ) Where two or more persons are , by mistake , registered as proprietors of the same registered estate or of the same charge ; ( f ) Where a mortgagee has been registered as proprietor of the land instead of as proprietor of a charge and a right of redemption is subsisting ; ( g ) Where a legal estate has been registered in the name of a person who if the land had not been registered would not have been the estate owner ; and ( h ) In any other case where , by reason of any error or omission in the register , or by reason of any entry made under a mistake , it may be deemed just to rectify the register . |
| 13 | The breadth of the catch-all provision was , I imagine , the reason why it was thought appropriate to make the power exercisable ‘ where … it may be deemed just to rectify the register . ’ |
| 14 | Promiscuity may be used compulsively to suppress uncomfortable emotions or to gain a sense of elation in order to change a disordered mood and is a common cross-addiction with other forms of addictive disease . |
| 15 | It may be used just to give the researcher a feel for what is being studied ; as a resource to back up or complement evidence produced from other sources ; or as evidence in itself , as the topic of the research . |
| 16 | To make a contribution to educational policy and practice by generating practical suggestions for how computers may be used effectively to stimulate exploratory and reasoned argument in the classroom , with particular reference to the curriculum goals of English and spoken language development across a range of curriculum areas . |
| 17 | No plant matter is actively used in the construction of the nest , but it may be used indirectly to anchor the nest and stop it from floating away . |
| 18 | There are several accepted techniques that may be used successfully to help manage and develop infant behaviour . |
| 19 | Several different types of finance may be used together to fund one project . |
| 20 | Point estimates of aquifer recharge can be made from single profiles , and several profiles may be used together to determine regional recharge . |
| 21 | Facts which are individually correct may be used together to distort a picture . |
| 22 | The therapeutic centre may be used typically to observe and monitor families which are not functioning well and to teach adequate parenting skills where these are lacking . |
| 23 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 24 | This allows the new DC to have the same information as the aborted one and may be edited thereafter to suit the new DC . |
| 25 | Also , metal from various sources may be melted together to make new castings . |
| 26 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 27 | Allowable losses for CGT purposes from a previous year of tax assessment may be brought forward to diminish the value of gains for calculation of CGT in the current year of assessment . |
| 28 | This submission is made on the footing that , under one or more of these paragraphs , the court is given a general discretion to order rectification in any case in which it may be thought just to do so . |
| 29 | Measurement of f at each of m values of t would provide m equations for the m unknowns ; however , since f is measured and so is inexact , it may be thought better to measure f at n values of t , where unc in order to minimise the effects of experimental error . |
| 30 | In the extreme case of abundant sediment and weak marine action , the levees on either side of the distributaries may be prolonged seawards to give a digitate delta , for example the Mississippi . |