Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporations may be granted these devices , but they are normally permitted only to counties , cities and councils of standing ; and companies and institutions of an important national nature . |
| 2 | Fields which may be frequently accessed may be designated key fields by the database administrator and held on the index , to facilitate this easy access . |
| 3 | The bow may be fired three times in the shooting phase , but it must be fired at the same target ( be this a unit of troops , a monster , or whatever ) . |
| 4 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 5 | In much of our reflection on this question , we shall also be dealing with a third , which will be as important , that of the nature of certain other necessary or nomic connections , which hold between what may be called nomic correlates . |
| 6 | Although supplementary facts should not , in general , be added to a problem , the case is different with what may be called omitted facts . |
| 7 | ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency . |
| 8 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 9 | In the Mesozoic , stratigraphical subdivision has reached its greatest precision and it should be possible to construct what may be called isotachic maps ( Greek : isos = same tachos = speed ) . |
| 10 | This keyword may be duplicated 301 times for different LIFESPAN users . |
| 11 | The drawing shows the main design points for a single-stack system and the connections which may be made Detailed requirements are given in BS5572 : Code of Practice for Sanitary Pipework . |
| 12 | The landlord is usually the party who settles the form of the lease ( albeit it may be amended many times before execution ) and most of the covenants are inserted for his protection . |
| 13 | They may be suspected political opponents . |
| 14 | Such phrases may be repeated many times with slight variations in each repetition , so that the phrase at the end of the sequence is quite different to that at its beginning . |
| 15 | This action may be repeated several times which is why fluorescent lighting ‘ flashes ’ when first switched on . |
| 16 | Once established , the pancakes and solid sheet ice are subject to lifting by swell , which may be generated many miles away in open water , and to lateral pressures from winds ; sections split into floes which raft over each other , or form pressure ridges along their edges . |
| 17 | These commands are used to define geometric entities , that is points , lines and surfaces which may be given symbolic names . |
| 18 | The student may be given appropriate formulae with the investigation or you may want the student to obtain the formulae from eg books , the tutor or other sources . |
| 19 | Any chariot crew may be given short bows at an additional cost of +1 point per crewman . |
| 20 | She may have become an international superstar , wined and dined with kings and presidents , prima ballerinas , film idols , pop legends and sporting heroes ; she may be ferried around in motorcades and private yachts and planes ; and she may be given priceless jewels to wear . |
| 21 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 22 | Further works which may be deemed desirable acquisitions are : The English House by James Chambers ( London 1985 ) , English Vernacular Houses by E. Mercer , and The English Medieval House by Margaret Wood ( London , reprint 1985 ) . |
| 23 | A DC is created once , may be updated many times and is then submitted once . |
| 24 | A Product is created once , may be updated many times and is then registered once . |
| 25 | The first market may be offered complete packages of equipment , including a printer and additional storage units in addition to the central processor and visual display unit . |
| 26 | Police are appealing for anyone who may be offered large sums of foreign cash to exchange to contact Sunderland CID on Wearside ( 091 ) 567 6155 . |
| 27 | And they may be torn three ways , between the practical direction they are getting in the school , the advice they are being given in college and by their teaching practice tutor , and their own developing sense of the kind of teacher they would or would not like to become . |
| 28 | They tend to be , characterized by the phrase ‘ its more than my job 's worth … ’ and may be termed petty officials . |
| 29 | Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour , whose constituents do not like to be separated , may be termed bound collocations . |
| 30 | These persons were not necessarily well off , but they were literate in Sinhala if not in English and had a relatively high standard of living ; they may be termed local élites . |