Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 The strategic review process may be represented schematically as follows : —
4 The client 's experience of anxiety for each of the five trials of each target may be represented graphically as in Figure 4.11 .
5 Such an order may be made so as to ensure that there is a home for the children of the marriage .
6 They are an expression of underlying inequalities which , while they may be categorized primarily as economic and social , must also be seen as political .
7 The pupil 's classroom and working groups ( how an individual 's behaviour may have a function for the whole group who may then try and prevent him from changing it ; how groups may be handled so as not to ‘ need ’ one child 's particular behaviour and instead support his progress )
8 For elders with histories of secure attachments , a diminished capacity to desire new attachments may be accepted sagely as age-appropriate — or feared and rejected as an unwelcome sign of old age and impending death .
9 These agencies may be seen alternatively as implementers that affect the character of policy or as independent creators of policy forever in a relationship of tension with the ‘ centre ’ .
10 The empirical work may be seen broadly as implementing the simple framework set out in Section 9–1 ( applied to current rather than lifetime income ) .
11 It so happened that in 1885 a Royal Commission had been set up " to investigate and report upon , the condition of the blind in the United Kingdom , the various systems of education of the blind … the employments open to and suitable for the blind and the means by which education may be extended so as to increase the number of blind persons qualified for such employments . "
12 This may be demonstrated algebraically as follows :
13 The important ones may be stated briefly as follows :
14 Several operations have been cancelled at the John Radcliffe Hospital today … and more may be stopped tomorrow as staff struggle to cope with a sudden influx of emergency patients … officials say there is no single cause for the sudden rise in admissions …
15 Some art criticism in a catalogue may be included so as to document the history of taste .
16 Fantasy may be experienced both as pleasurable and as dangerous .
17 The decision of an expert may be known either as 'speaking " or " non-speaking " .
18 The project will investigate formally the gains that result from coordinated policies on CO2 emissions , as against unilateral policies , and suggest how international agreements on CO2 emissions may be designed so as to ensure they are sustainable .
19 They may be concentrated naturally as in animal tissues like bone , blood , hoof and horn , or processed to contain a high proportion of one or more nutrients , or they may be bulky and contain very little as in plant tissues like peat , compost and leaf mould .
20 Such samples require the use of special techniques which may be described loosely as flow , flash and freeze methods .
21 Some more southern varieties , such as cow parsley and meadowsweet , may be driven northwards as their habitats are taken over by invaders from warmer climes .
22 As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created .
23 It should also be noted that although candidates may be admitted initially as prospective students for honours , admission to the honours courses is not guaranteed at the outset but depends on performance in classes taken in the first two , or in some cases three , years .
24 Modules may be taken individually as short courses by graduates and are accredited .
25 As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation .
26 On the other hand , taking the issue costs of equity shares to the statement of total recognised gains and losses may be considered right as it reflects the nature of these costs as a permanent loss of capital .
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