Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reason for an increase may be related to increased VLDL catabolism , which in turn produces the apoproteins and lipids forming an integral part of HDL . |
| 32 | An abdominal type of fat distribution may be related to increased androgenicity of these women . |
| 33 | Such precise understanding of their needs , expressed by many women , may be related to earlier good experiences of being comforted by their own mothers . |
| 34 | The widespread regression at the end of Cretaceous times may be related to three major plate phenomena : the Laramide orogeny along the western edge of the American plate , the opening of the northern part of the North Atlantic and the further grinding together of the African and Eurasian plates to produce the early Tertiary Pyrenean folding of Cantabria , the Pyrenees and Provence in south-west Europe . |
| 35 | They suggest that this factor may be related to genetic abnormality or more rapid progression of growth in younger women . |
| 36 | Counselling is concerned with coping mechanisms which may be related to physical health problems , or may be personal and linked to relationships , or sociocultural issues including spiritual beliefs , or may be linked to economic difficulties . |
| 37 | There are a number of studies which suggest that it is sensible to think of subjective risk when driving as a continually fluctuating quantity which may be related to both estimated and objective risk . |
| 38 | It may therefore be expected that the solutions obtained may be related to known cylindrically symmetric solutions , or to stationary axisymmetric solutions , which similarly have a pair of Killing vectors . |
| 39 | With this knowledge , electoral behaviour may be related to local area social and economic characterisation . |
| 40 | Because bismuth is known to have a toxic effect on some microorganisms its therapeutic benefit in colitis may be related to this . |
| 41 | In these nutrient-poor waters , the fishes may be reliant on such vegetable input and , in turn , the homogeneity of the inundated forest of Amazonia may be related to this fishy connection . |
| 42 | According to this author , management may be related to formal authority within an organisation and managers-get others to do their bidding because of their organisational position . |
| 43 | Difference in outcome may be related to different social profiles . |
| 44 | It has been suggested , for instance , that language-impaired children 's problems with syntax may be related to imperfect acquisition of verb argument structures . |
| 45 | In this respect the role of an auditor may be likened to that of a watchdog rather than a bloodhound . |
| 46 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 47 | Our clinical findings suggest that the neuronal disorder may be compensated to some degree because the intestines are richly innervated . |
| 48 | Compaq Computer Corp says it expects its move into direct sales to generate up to 10% of its US revenues this year , and may be expanded to some foreign markets later this year : total US sales amounted to about $1,700m in 1992 , Compaq said . |
| 49 | Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation . |
| 50 | Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times . |
| 51 | Reference may be made to one other feature of the draft . |
| 52 | At a hearing before an enlarged Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , seven Lords of Appeal in Ordinary held in Pepper ( Inspector of Taxes ) v. Hart , Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC dissenting , that , in limited circumstances , reference may be made to parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 53 | Category ( e ) should also cater for the situation where a payment may be made to another insurer in accordance with current market practice as opposed to a specific agreement , e.g. a Travel insurer may seek partial reimbursement from us as Home insurers having dealt with a claim which is covered under both policies . |
| 54 | There is a recognition that export goods outside the Community may be made to different standards so that , by virtue of s10(4) , this will provide a defence . |
| 55 | Two objections , however , may be made to this reasoning . |
| 56 | Otherwise stock may be withdrawn to many areas without proper records being kept . |
| 57 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 58 | In the former of these circumstances the old county histories may be searched to considerable effect , for not only may they describe the church as it then was , but give further clues as to where data may be found . |
| 59 | Study Philippians 2:3–4 and state specifically how this passage may be applied to marital ( sexual ) relations . |
| 60 | Whereas the primary directions can be applied universally , the secondary may be applied to certain conditions or ailments . |