Example sentences of "may be [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 2 | Moreover , memory may be impaired for a variety of reasons , lack of initial attention is not the only possible explanation . |
| 3 | Some fromage frais and quark have a longer shelf life and may be kept for a week or ten days after purchase . |
| 4 | However , the key to the avoidance of uncontrolled complexity in any engineering domain may be to go for a complete and as rigorous as possible a description of the problem in hand before any detailed calculations are made on the precise properties of the postulated design . |
| 5 | There is no limit on the number of volume sets which may be defined for a particular installation , as the number produced depends on the number of charge codes for which modules are to be hard copied and the number of modules to be hard copied for those charge codes . |
| 6 | Or he may be looking for a particular foodplant , or flower for nectar , searching for a special smell or a particular electromagnetic emission . |
| 7 | They may have no religious beliefs , or may be looking for a much simpler ceremony . |
| 8 | BROOKE SHIELDS , who is not being offered many good roles since outgrowing her curvaceous teens , may be looking for a new career as a film critic . |
| 9 | Those who give the impression that they are fishing for information ; they may be looking for a recommendation for somebody else who may be suitable to approach . |
| 10 | A claim may be received for a piece of jewellery or a valuable , which is not specified under the policy , but the value of the item exceeds the policy limit for unspecified items . |
| 11 | In the U.S.A. you may be asked for a credit card imprint as security when checking into your hotel if you intend to charge meals , drinks , etc. to your rooms . |
| 12 | You may be asked for a replacement photograph if the one you supply is of poor quality . |
| 13 | Did you say to her , I 'm going out to re I 'm going out and I may be gone for a long time . |
| 14 | It 's , you know , it 's like what 's his Captain Oates was it , going out into the tent in the Antarctic or something , you know it 's sort of I may be gone for a while , you know , in the in the , into the wilderness and never to return so that in , in the British structure er politicians are , their loyalty is central rather than local because their political futures are determined centrally rather than locally . |
| 15 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 16 | Cereal crops — wheat , barley , oats , rye , maize , or ‘ dredge ’ mixtures — may be grown for a variety of reasons : for the sale of grain for milling , malting , or animal feed ; for home bread-making ; for feeding one 's own livestock either threshed and rolled or on the straw ; for grazing as a green crop ; for arable silage ; for ploughing in to increase fertility ; or for the sale of thatching straw . |
| 17 | Within school , pupils may be selected for a teaching group according to particular aspects of their school performance . |
| 18 | His family have a message for other parents who may be hoping for a similar hospital place for their glue-sniffing child |
| 19 | Authority may be given for a particular exercise of the power or for its exercise generally ( a distinction of some importance in relation to pre-emptive rights ) and may be unconditional or subject to conditions . |
| 20 | ( vi ) The same may be said for a passage of Paul . |
| 21 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 22 | Ophiomedea duplicata may be mistaken for a juvenile Ophiotrema alberti , it differs from that species by the following characters ; the jaw shape is as wide as long not longer than wide as in O. alberti ; there are fewer oral papillae and oral tentacle scales than in O. alberti , the ventral arm plates are bell shaped with a distinctly widened distal edge , the ventral arm plates of O. alberti being more pentagonal or rectangular with rounded edges and the distal edge indented but not widened . |
| 23 | Although a deal may be concluded for a strategically important acquisition at a fair price , the subsequent financial success of such an acquisition will be often dependent on the appropriateness of the deal structure . |
| 24 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 25 | You may be recalled for a second interview or apply to the same place some time in the future . |
| 26 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 28 | Examples of this kind of approach are common in the motor car retail trade in times of low demand , when one-year warranties are extended to two years , and interest-free credit may be offered for a limited period . |
| 29 | More intensive psychological care and psychiatric treatment may be required for a few . |
| 30 | ‘ You may inform them that the homestead 's master bedroom boasts a king-sized bed which may be hired for a small consideration . ’ |