Example sentences of "such [noun] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent studies on extensional flow suggest that measurement of the viscosity in such flows may contain information on the molecular weight distribution not easily obtained by other means . |
| 2 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 3 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 4 | It is not for us to decide whether or not a book is racist or obscene or seditious ; society has laid down laws to make such judgments and has conferred upon statutory bodies the power to advise and assess on such matters — however imperfect or fickle such institutions may appear in their assessments . |
| 5 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 6 | While such accounts may lack the flexibility of traditional savings accounts and are not intended to be a substitute , they do , nevertheless , offer better rates of interest on smaller investments as well as a cheque book facility for transferring funds . |
| 7 | Such enthusiasm may have had as much to do with the excited nationalism of wartime , as any substantial appreciation of these films ' merits , and it should not be supposed that British filmmakers had universally gone from being dull and unimaginative to become masters of the cinematic art . |
| 8 | These constituencies are broader and more diffuse than mere pressure groups , though such groups may comprise their most visible and vocal components . |
| 9 | Such groups may cohere together according to a wide variety of principles , e.g. by identification with a particular locality , a particular herd of livestock , a particular parcel of seed ( annually replaced ) , a particular lineage name transmitted from parent to child , and 50 on . |
| 10 | Clearly , whilst such groups may fulfil a valuable and useful social purpose , they could offer much more . |
| 11 | Obviously such discussions may extend further than mandatory requirements dictate and indeed , from time to time , emerging issues have merited reference through the appropriate channels to the Accounting Standards Board or to the Urgent Issues Task Force for further consideration . |
| 12 | Such discussions may involve an examination of textbooks and other reading assignments for readability , conceptual difficulty and relevance of content , as well as issues concerned with the presentation of the material , language modes and complexity used to explain what is required , and the use of different approaches to teacher-pupil dialogue . |
| 13 | Such contacts may occur on Work Experience , during Mini-Enterprise , or an industrial visit or within a GCSE project or module . |
| 14 | Such strategies may improve the condition of suspects but they do not deal directly with the real difficulties encountered by police investigators and do not necessarily improve the quality of their results . |
| 15 | 1.3 The employee 's duty not to make preparations in order to compete with his employer after he has left or to enable another to do so The employee can not make preparations during his employment , either during the working day or in his spare time , with a view to competing with his employer once his employment is over if such preparation may have a material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 16 | Such coins may bear the name of a regime or king whose dates are known . |
| 17 | Other rich countries call this dangerous nonsense , fearing that such cocktails may cause unforeseen chemical reactions . |
| 18 | It invites denigration , even denial , of the link between physical care and care for the whole person whose body needs tending , and therefore of the knowledge and skill which such activities may require . |
| 19 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 20 | Thus , while there may be preferences discernible in the choice of elements most-likely-to-be-concentrated-on within a sentence if that sentence is presented in isolation , such preferences may reflect the rather trivial fact that names are more salient than anything else , in isolation . |
| 21 | Such phenomena may have been present in three of our patints , in whom a slight bile acid malabsorption was found with the SeHCAT test , but in whom there was no increase in bile acid synthesis by the liver . |
| 22 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 23 | Such patterns may have become a conventional part of the mosaicist 's repertory , indeed , the similarity of these mosaics to some in north-eastern England ( part IV ) suggests a widespread acceptance of these forms of decoration . |
| 24 | Such clubs may have contributed to the desire for respectability of many seamen . |
| 25 | Such conflicts may increase the risk of depression but be resolved by a subsequent change in employment status . |
| 26 | The true nature and worth of such pursuits may elude their contemporaries , since history tends to impose a time-lag on the degree to which the public can keep in touch with the sensibilities of the artist . |
| 27 | Such policies may hinder attempts to achieve economic growth and may increase the level of unemployment . |
| 28 | Such birds may vary widely in morphology and taxonomic affinity . |
| 29 | Such struggle may involve spatial structuring of the society , as with the construction of residential segregation in urban areas to promote the interests of some groups and retard those of others ( as with racial groups in the United States : Johnson , 1984c , and chapter 5 below ) . |
| 30 | Papers subsequently published by such researchers may show no obvious Scottish connection in their titles , but it can not be assumed that the work is unrelated to their thesis topic . |