Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 2 | Similarly , for juvenile offenders , the ‘ care order ’ under which they may be detained in an institution is for an unspecified period ; again , release is determined by rehabilitative , treatment criteria . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the submission of Mr. Collins ignores the fact that , since an injunction may be granted in an emergency to restrain an infringement of the law , for example the cutting down of a tree in breach of a tree preservation order ( see , e.g. , Newport Borough Council v. Khan ( Sabz Ali ) [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 1185 ) , it may well be impossible in such circumstances to resolve the issue of a possible defence on the application for an interlocutory injunction . |
| 4 | The text may be presented in a variety of styles . |
| 5 | Since they may be determined in a way favourable to the defendant , there is no need to decide any other complaints he might have about the conduct of his trial . |
| 6 | Although there is a very wide range of coldwater fish which may be kept in a garden pond the majority of pondkeepers choose Orfe or some of the many varieties of goldfish . |
| 7 | The abundance and the functional effects of N-Oct 3 may be regulated by different mechanisms : ( i ) transcription of N-Oct 3 may be regulated in a temporal and tissue specific manner , ( ii ) the RNA half life might be controlled by sequences in the 3' untranslated region as suggested by our findings ( iii ) a bias in translation in favour of N-Oct 5 proteins may serve to neutralize the effects of the N-Oct 3 protein . |
| 8 | The brush is handy for vacuuming stubborn dust and dirt which may be lodged in a carpet and the crevice tool will reach into awkward corners such as under kitchen units , although it is n't long enough to reach to the very back . |
| 9 | She may be dressed in a different uniform , and therefore must explain her role to the patient . |
| 10 | Such home-ground environments may be bounded in a variety of ways . |
| 11 | Firstly the storage requirement is significantly reduced since integers may be stored in a much smaller space than strings . |
| 12 | The cached information may be stored in a file referenced by the logical name LIFESPANCACHE and must be set up by the user . |
| 13 | These various theories may be defined in a number of ways . |
| 14 | Nor is it quite obvious on second thoughts that even in the most literal usages the visual metaphor is wholly dead ; however accurately ‘ insight ’ may be defined in a dictionary , could I handle the word with any confidence without being guided by its grammatical and semantic affinities with ‘ sight ’ ? |
| 15 | The point may be illustrated in a reaction function diagram . |
| 16 | This idea may be illustrated in a study of the rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) by Lynn Carpenter , D. C. Paton and M. A. Hixon . |
| 17 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 18 | As we saw in Chapter 5 , your freedom to move elsewhere may be limited in a number of ways . |
| 19 | Another was the suicide of Brennus after his retreat from Delphi , which may be represented in a famous bronze of the museum of Naples . |
| 20 | The above relationships may be represented in a more visually direct manner by plotting the matching scores of each grid along selected dimensions . |
| 21 | ‘ Caseness ’ may be blurred in a setting where relationships with the community are close . |
| 22 | These difficulties may be overcome in a number of ways : |
| 23 | Hence the situation we confront is one in which there are somewhat uncertain ( in the sense of being not precisely calculable ) physical limits to growth , which may be placed in a more or less distant ( but not indefinite ) future , and social limits to growth already manifest in a deteriorating ‘ quality of life ’ and its attendant frustrations , which attract increasing attention from social scientists . |
| 24 | Instead claims by and against third party organisations or individuals may be made in a variety of domestic and regional , formal and informal arenas . |
| 25 | A description of personality traits is beyond the scope of this book , but they may be categorised in a simple manner under three headings , thus : * role traits : which are those parts of the personality which determine how an individual will react or behave in particular situations , and will react to the expectations of others in that situation . |
| 26 | Texts may be organized in a variety of ways , the naturalness or otherwise of their organization being determined by a multitude of factors . |
| 27 | and er analogist principal applies in relation to article eighty six and to this article the effect upon trade must flow from the abuse , however , the definition of the market arises in relation to establishing dominants , there are many cases which established , the market in which an undertaking is dominant need not be the same market as where the abuse occurred accordingly to establish an article of eighty six case , dominants may be proven in a market where there is no effect upon trade . |
| 28 | Statistical representativeness is not , of course , assured simply by means of large numbers ; a large sample , running into several hundreds or thousands may be selected in a way which makes it unrepresentative of the general population , while a small sample may , conversely , meet more precisely the criterion of representativeness . |
| 29 | Information may be gathered in a variety of ways , including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms . |
| 30 | Grandfather or grandmother 's opinion may be communicated in a subtle manner , but even in today 's western society the opinion of the elders still carries great weight . |