Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | in severe cases the affected fish may be treated at a higher dose 10mg per litre in a separate hospital tank , for five days . |
| 2 | Another major demand on woodland which is rarely discussed is the fuel requirement for cremating bodies , especially in eastern England where many thousands of cremations may be represented at a single cemetery . |
| 3 | ‘ We may be looking at a racial motive , but there is no doubt they were copying the other carjackings . ’ |
| 4 | International consensus on an agreement that would ban all mining and oil drilling activities in Antarctica may be reached at a meeting to be held in Chile in November . |
| 5 | In particular , as outlined below , one area of potential dissension and difficulty in the modern small private company is the very fact that some of the relevant legal rules and remedies are based on being able to distinguish the capacity in which a particular individual may be acting at a given time . |
| 6 | Students may be placed at a particular point in the range of modules depending on their competence profile . |
| 7 | THREE hundred jobs may be created at a superstore at Falkirk . |
| 8 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 9 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 10 | Substituted service may be made at a defendant 's place of employment or his bank or his former solicitor ( see Supreme Court Practice , Vol 1 , 65/4/16 ) . |
| 11 | It would be wrong to conceive of these two ‘ orders ’ as being respectively University and Ministry based , for both types of information may be collected at a number of levels including school and teacher 's centre level . |
| 12 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 13 | In addition , a sharply progressive personal tax system will make dividends a relatively unattractive source of income for the marginal tax payer compared to capital gains which may be taxed at a flat rate . |
| 14 | However , we can see here an example of how children may be exposed at a very early age to purposeful code-switching behaviour . |
| 15 | Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date . |
| 16 | A cash alternative may be offered at a lower price than the share offer but such an alternative may be safer if this is likely to happen . |
| 17 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 18 | Bryan Gould , Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , has said that the industry may be renationalised at a lower price than it is sold for . |
| 19 | Whilst incorrect operation may be established at a global level , failure is always apparent at this elemental level . |
| 20 | Many options may be purchased at a very small fraction of the cost of the underlying security . |
| 21 | This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model . |
| 22 | Two main types : ( i ) Operations Research models , which are an abstraction of real systems or processes which are used to represent the basic variable and constant features of the reality , so that its behaviour or process can be explored , explained and simulated ; ( ii ) Macroeconomic and econometric models which may be used at a company level , or at a more general industry or economy level . |
| 23 | The absence of a temple or shrine in the near vicinity and of any obvious religious objects or inscriptions , casts serious doubt on this suggestion , but a shrine may be found at a nearby sacred spring . |
| 24 | But an information gap is not necessarily the same as the operation of different schemata , which may be working at a deeper and less accessible level . |
| 25 | The grounds of appeal are not viewed formally and may be enlarged at a later stage . |
| 26 | Only one type of operation may be performed at a time . |
| 27 | Here , as in the Netherlands ( van Wijhe et al. 1980 ) , the ‘ gas window ’ may be expected at a depth of 4000–6000 m ( at a geothermal gradient of 32°C/km ) . |
| 28 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 29 | So , for example , a new fibre-tipped pen , in a range of such pens offered by a newcomer to the market , may be sold at a loss in order to draw attention to the range as a whole , and to establish a share of the total market . |