Example sentences of "[noun] may [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have tended to speak as if it existed in some obvious and consistent way in higher education , but as some of the above quotations pointed out , the undergraduate curriculum may be influenced by other manifestations of organized knowledge , in particular research and professional practice . |
| 2 | These attitudes may be moulded by parental influence ( and hence positively — or negatively — correlated across generations ) and may be influenced by the social climate . |
| 3 | The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant . |
| 4 | Equally , bargaining may be affected by internal political change . |
| 5 | Within care centres public law cases may be heard by designated family judges or nominated care judges . |
| 6 | Given the scale of such organisations , where an IM strategy does exist , the development of strategy and the completion of particular projects may be handled by different parts of the organisation , possibly with a co-ordinating or quality assurance role linking them . |
| 7 | Such breaks , which occur in deep mountain valleys more often than in lowland valleys , are not always easy to interpret , as similar forms may be caused by lithological differences or by glaciation . |
| 8 | Both institutional and personal racism may be experienced by elderly people and their families . |
| 9 | A particular complementary technique may be recognised by orthodox circles in one country but condemned in another ; an example is osteopathy . |
| 10 | It is such considerations of equity and judgement that make the course-work component in examinations suspect , however much its assessment may be regulated by published sets of criteria . |
| 11 | In patients without evidence of nephropathy a similar diet and drug regimen can be used and , if there are features of nephropathy , the inexorable decline of renal function may be slowed by good control of hypertension ( Mogensen , 1982 ; Parving et al , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | There is also evidence that bureaucratic advancement may be obtained by successful efforts to cut back on departmental expenditure . |
| 13 | Although investment plans may be curtailed by high interest rates , current borrowing by many firms can not easily be curtailed . |
| 14 | The recent technical improvements in BR planning ( Allen and Williams 1985 : 92–6 ) are unlikely to eliminate political influences ; indeed , as already noted , the effectiveness of action plans may be undermined by subsequent government alteration of planning objectives . |
| 15 | Large nodules may be detected by lateral thoracic radiography . |
| 16 | With this in mind , many companies give the customer the benefit of the doubt when this does not involve high cost , even though they suspect that the fault may be caused by inappropriate use of the product on the part of the customer ; for example , garden fork manufacturers may replace prematurely broken forks , even though the break may have been caused by work for which the fork was not designed . |
| 17 | These penetrate the foot of the molluscan intermediate host and develop to the infective L3 , and during this phase the mollusc may be eaten by paratenic hosts such as birds and rodents . |
| 18 | Learning to allow emotions to be felt and to be dealt with appropriately in human relationships may be helped by specialised counselling within a treatment centre specialising in addictive disease . |
| 19 | For the adolescent boy or girl , the confusion may be worsened by growing evidence for him or her that previous ideas and attitudes , based entirely on childhood experience , may not be appropriate in his or her new relationships or in the new society of which the youngster is now accepted as part . |
| 20 | Formal goals may be displaced by informal and incompatible goals that reflect the interests of members who happen to be in a position to substitute their goals for those of ‘ the organization ’ . |
| 21 | the bladder may be disturbed by certain drugs , by an infection , constipation or an emotional upset . |
| 22 | The influence of a particular piece of research may be transmitted by personal contact , or through media other than publications , and the quantification of such informal communications presents researchers with some rather intractable problems . |
| 23 | Advocates of funding by tax finance therefore claim that ‘ underfunding ’ of the NHS may be remedied by increasing government expenditure on the service . |
| 24 | Such market effects may be caused by changing consumer attitudes , for instance in the UK to the wearing of fur or seal-skin clothing ; or by direct legislative interference . |
| 25 | Recent research has shown how glaciers may be affected by periodic surges in which ice may be transmitted down-glacier at speeds 10–100 times faster than normal and this has been identified from small glaciers and also from some ice sheets on a continental or subcontinental scale ( Sugden and John , 1976 ) . |
| 26 | The discrepancy between the retrospective and prospective studies in the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli in colorectal carcinomas may be explained by incomplete documentation of pseudomelanosis coli during the endoscopic detection of a carcinoma , whereas adenomas are easily detected as depigmented white areas in a mucosa of brown-black pigmentation . |
| 27 | These studies show that if we can define a population with a high risk of recurrent disease then the outlook may be improved by medical treatment . |
| 28 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 29 | A bald statement that the exercise of public functions may be challenged by judicial review does not , however , tell us all there is to know about the sort of decisions which are amenable to judicial review ; and so now we must consider a number of distinctions which can be drawn between types of public functions . |
| 30 | Some examples of such arrangements were given above as illustrations of the way in which governmental functions may be performed by non-governmental bodies . |