Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the reader may be entertained by debating the correctness of this analogy , its inclusion is intended to underline the principle that the design of a study and the analysis of the resulting information are intimately related . |
| 2 | If a squint and amblyopia are detected early , the amblyopia may be treated by patching the good eye , so that the lazy one has to work . |
| 3 | Generally , sound timbers , such as wallplates and lintels which are built into masonry and which show only one or two surfaces to the building interior , may be treated by coating their exposed faces with a thick ‘ mayonnaise ’ preservative paste . |
| 4 | Slight damage may be treated by using staples to anchor pieces together , but if damage is widespread , replacement is the best bet |
| 5 | Under the Act , persons may be detained for questioning at a police station , without charge , for 36 hours on the police 's own authority , and for a further 60 hours subject to successful application for a magistrate 's order . |
| 6 | Before introducing a new set of coordinates , it may be noted in passing that Feinstein and Ibañez ( 1989 ) have considered an alternative coordinate system and have expanded a general solution in a different way involving Bessel and Neumann functions of zero order . |
| 7 | It may be noted in passing that particular terms of this type have been included by Feinstein and Ibañez ( 1989 ) in the class of solutions that will be described in Section 10.7 . |
| 8 | It may be noted in passing that , in the colinear case in which and , this generation technique is equivalent to putting which is effectively contained in ( 12.1 ) but with a change in the sign of V . |
| 9 | It may be noted in passing that the advertisement supplement , far from being a modern development first appeared in 1666 in this country . |
| 10 | It may be noted in passing that one of the results of their synthesis , here as in the case of Molla Yegan , is a certain idealizing of the early Muftilik in an important respect . |
| 11 | The symmetry of any property of a molecule may be determined by seeing how it behaves when operated on by the various symmetry elements that make up the overall symmetry point group of the molecule ( see Appendix ) . |
| 12 | If the animal is killed and its brain cut into thin microscope sections , the concentration of glucose in different parts may be determined by measuring the concentration of radiation . |
| 13 | There is a temptation that voluntary organisations may be tempted into offering services on the cheap . |
| 14 | A line graph , which is the unique frequency curve of the sediment , may be formed by linking the mid-points of the histogram columns ( Fig. 3.6 ) . |
| 15 | User defined characters may be printed using the following Escape sequence : On an unexpanded Z88 ( one without 128k or more in slot 1 ) , only 16 characters may be defined without encroaching on the PipeDream map . |
| 16 | It is difficult , therefore , to conceptualize in any rigorous way the embedding of junctions for if we define the continuum using the topological neighbours of the origin junction then an equally valid interpenetrating continuum may be defined by using the spatial neighbours and their topological neighbours . |
| 17 | The rates of diffusion of two gases may be compared by measuring the time taken for a given volume of each gas to diffuse through a porous surface under identical conditions . |
| 18 | As an alternative means of adding security , the bill[s] of exchange may be sent with shipping documents — the buyer only obtains title to the goods once the bill[s] have been accepted for payment at a future date [ or , if the bill is payable ‘ at sight ’ , when payment has been made ] . |
| 19 | The waterfall may be visited by hiring a boat and boatman ( enquire at Kylesku Hotel ) for a three-mile voyage to the far end of this loch , whence a short walk brings it into view . |
| 20 | The economy introduced by the suffix notation may be illustrated by writing out in full as follows Now the direction of dS in the coordinate axes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) is given by the direction cosines . |
| 21 | This problem may be illustrated by listening to a foreign language ( about which one has no knowledge ) and trying to determine the location of the word boundaries . |
| 22 | The segmentation problem for speech may be illustrated by listening to a foreign language about which one has no knowledge and trying to locate the word-breaks . |
| 23 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 24 | This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 . |
| 25 | The point may be illustrated by tracing the fate of two of the stones stolen at the time of the French Revolution . |
| 26 | The difficulty of becoming vividly aware of the worst without having a positive taste for it may be illustrated by listing underminers of eighteenth century faith in human perfectibility who have earned our thanks by laying the ground for a view of life reconcilable with the trenches , bombs and concentration camps of our own era — Sade , Maistre , Baudelaire , Dostoevsky , Nietzsche , Freud . |
| 27 | ( c ) Certain abstract words , like food , metal and beauty may be taught by grouping together a number of objects , models or samples belonging to the same class . |
| 28 | If for any reason a withdrawal time is missed the entire pattern of settling may be restarted by restirring and allowing the material to recommence settling until the required time interval has elapsed . |
| 29 | If the person to be served is represented by a solicitor , the document may be served by delivering the document at , or sending it by first class post to , the solicitor 's address for service ( Ord 7 , r 1(b) ) . |
| 30 | It is also provided that where a person , not named as a respondent , is in occupation , the originating application and other documents may be served by affixing a copy of them to the main door or other conspicuous part , and , if practicable , inserting them through the letter box , or by placing stakes in the ground with the documents ( in a transparent sealed envelope ) attached . |