Example sentences of "may be [verb] by reference " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purely procedural rules may be binding by reference to the rules in force at the time when the procedure is applied . |
| 2 | Words or phrases may be defined by reference to other documents . |
| 3 | These approaches may be illustrated by reference to an example , Neugraben , a suburb of the city that pioneered Tempo 30 , Hamburg . |
| 4 | These various levels of legal right , interest , and values may be illustrated by reference to treaties and third parties . |
| 5 | This and also the danger which , as it seems to me , lurks in the encouragement of judicial excursions into the parliamentary preserve of legislative policy , may be illustrated by reference to two cases . |
| 6 | These adjustments to measurable criteria may be made by reference to research studies or to ‘ expert ’ judgement . |
| 7 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 8 | It also , and this is new , includes ‘ the type of company and its principal business activities , ’ the type to be ‘ given by reference to the classification prescribed for the purposes of this section , ’ while the principal business activities ‘ may be given by reference to categories of any prescribed system of classifying business activities . ’ |
| 9 | As the language system is the focus of our study here , we start with the idea of the linguistic variable ( for example the vowel /a/ in such items as cat , bad , have ) , and our first task is to discover what the possible variants of a variable may be : subsequently , the quantitative distribution of linguistic variants may be demonstrated by reference to the familiar speaker-variables of social dialectology , such as age and sex of speaker . |
| 10 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 11 | 4 For five movements with more than one section but with only a single total timing ( nos. 3 , 4 , 6,15,18 ) , tempos of the different sections may be postulated by reference to tempo relationships in table 1 , themselves established in most cases by reference to the time-words found in the sources ( see also table 2 ) . |
| 12 | Its contents may be verified by reference to the works quoted in the bibliography , especially those of Kinsey and his collaborators and by Masters and Johnson in the United States ( although stemming from studies in another and slightly different culture they hold much validity for Britain also ) and by Chatham , Eysenck , Felstein and Gorer in the United Kingdom . |