Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] a variety " 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 | The text may be presented in a variety of styles . |
| 4 | Such home-ground environments may be bounded in a variety of ways . |
| 5 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
| 6 | Pupils may be assessed by a variety of different procedures during their school careers . |
| 7 | Instead claims by and against third party organisations or individuals may be made in a variety of domestic and regional , formal and informal arenas . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In most languages , participant roles are systematically defined through a closed system of pronouns which may be organized along a variety of dimensions . |
| 10 | In addition to the main distinction based on participant roles , the person system may be organized along a variety of other dimensions . |
| 11 | Texts may be organized in a variety of ways , the naturalness or otherwise of their organization being determined by a multitude of factors . |
| 12 | This may be justified on a variety of hard to refute grounds , such as the person is needed to keep production or a service going without disruption . |
| 13 | Information may be gathered in a variety of ways , including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms . |
| 14 | The information may be collected by a variety of methods : the company 's internal accounting system , marketing research system and marketing intelligence system . |
| 15 | They may be deployed in a variety of circumstances to greater or lesser effect . |
| 16 | Research contributing to existing areas may be funded from a variety of sources and so we tend to avoid it . |
| 17 | This may be done for a variety of reasons including someone 's anxiety that the original figures were just too unlikely to be reliable . |
| 18 | Economic models may be estimated in a variety of ways . |
| 19 | Interpretation may also be difficult if risk factors are examined in a protocol which comprises several treatment arms , since the effects of non-pharmacological factors may be obscured by a variety of treatment effects . |
| 20 | This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model . |
| 21 | Such systems may be used for a variety of purposes . |
| 22 | Semantic information may be used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |
| 23 | The same device may be used for a variety of potential functions , just as different devices may share a single function . |
| 24 | The program designer in creating material of a much less familiar kind , needs a clear view of how the teaching unit may be used by a variety of teachers and how he may help them use it effectively . |
| 25 | This chart shows how a fact may be used in a variety of ways according to the historian 's purpose . |
| 26 | Words derived from a verb stem by means of the suffix -ing may be used in a variety of meanings and functions according to the context in which they occur . |
| 27 | A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes : |
| 28 | These specialist assessments may be performed by a variety of mental health professionals including social workers , psychiatrists , community psychiatric nurses , and psychologists . |
| 29 | State regiments are always infantry , and may be equipped in a variety of different ways with different types of armour and weapons . |
| 30 | Because toll goods can be made excludable , they may be provided by a variety of private sector organizations , such as profit-maximizing firms or clubs and associations . |