Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 2 | They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator . |
| 3 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 4 | This aggression may be projected on to others , e.g. , middle management , or turned back upon himself . |
| 5 | Psychoanalysts have talked , for example , about the process of ‘ projection ’ , in which aspects of oneself of which one is fearful may be projected on to other people . |
| 6 | Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength . |
| 7 | The industry may be run down to 12 or 14 pits , and there may be no interest from the private sector , because long-term contracts may not be negotiated , especially in view of the amount of imported coal . |
| 8 | While scientists may be called on to use their knowledge to set priorities for action by conservation groups , the groups depend for funding and action on their public appeal . |
| 9 | Kevin Horlock may be called in to midfield |
| 10 | Yet although God is dark to man 's understanding , the reality of his being may be reached out to through love . |
| 11 | Verbs , nouns and adjectives that may take an infinitive with to may be followed by to without an infinitive to refer to a preceding verb or verbal group : Do n't go unless you want to ( Zandvoort 1957 ) . |
| 12 | The operative principle should therefore be one of a ‘ retributive maximum , as advocated by Norval Morris ( 1974 : 75 ) : while an individual offender may be punished up to the level indicated by the tariff , there is no obligation to do so if other valid considerations indicate that a more lenient course will be more constructive or humane . |
| 13 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 14 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 15 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 16 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 17 | I hold that on an appeal to the High Court under the Children Act 1989 the only findings of fact and the only reasons that may be relied on to support the decision of the justices under appeal , are those announced by the justices in accordance with rule 21 . |
| 18 | Consumers may be poisoned in their beds by improperly tested medical drugs , they may be killed over their dinner tables by unhygienically prepared food , they may be blown up to God knows where by the neighbourhood chemical complex exploding , and they may become fatally diseased in their living rooms by industrial pollution . |
| 19 | Lectures may be recorded on to cassettes for ward or school teaching programmes . |
| 20 | The USER_ACCESS keyword may be repeated up to 10 times allowing specification of up to 100 users . |
| 21 | The MODULE_ACCESS keyword may be repeated up to 10 times allowing specification of up to 100 users . |
| 22 | The DC_ACCESS keyword may be repeated up to 10 times allowing specification of up to 100 users . |
| 23 | The INDEX keyword may be repeated up to 30 times . |
| 24 | Under competitive tendering requirements , the responsibility for the production of meals may be contracted out to a commercial organisation . |
| 25 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 26 | A project set up to generate a new product or process may be an in-house activity utilizing the company 's own staff and resources , or it may be contracted out to another organization . |
| 27 | When time permits part of the class may be given over to considering past examination questions . |
| 28 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 29 | Matters previous transferred from the High Court under s 42 may be transferred back to the High Court ( s 42(4) ) . |
| 30 | The levels of these may be increased up to a thousandfold over basal . |