Example sentences of "[noun] may [be] [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expertise of the adviser in the particular problem which emerges will doubtless influence the proposed course of action ( which might include a referral ) but the preliminary advisory skills may be possessed by a volunteer as by a professional . |
| 2 | A booking contract may be formed by a telephone conversation between the prospective guest and the hotel . |
| 3 | The CICR mechanism evident in eggs at fertilization may be sensitized by a sperm factor . |
| 4 | A direction may be given by a justices ' clerk . |
| 5 | Printed text may be produced by a computer or typewriter . |
| 6 | European efforts to reduce global warming by reducing the burning of fossil fuels may be offset by a rapid increase in US coal mining activity . |
| 7 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 8 | creating new ideas : group creativity may be achieved by a ‘ brainstorming committee ’ or ‘ think tank ’ ; , |
| 9 | The position of the hole for the ballvalve stem may be dictated by a backplate or specially strengthened section near the top of the cistern . |
| 10 | The lack of rearrangement may be caused by a loss of an as-yet unidentified cis -acting rearrangement-promoting element , as suggested by the dramatic differences in the extent of rearrangement in the wild-type and mutant alleles coexisting in the same thymocytes of TCR -β heterozygous mice ( Fig. 4 c , third lane from right ) . |
| 11 | No spending proposals may be developed by a department from the earliest stages without consultation with the Treasury . |
| 12 | For the member of staff concerned , the course may be most enlightening and motivating , but back in the reality of school this enthusiasm may be negated by a less than receptive staff . |
| 13 | Indeed the whole Chapter may be excluded by a reservation under Article 33 and Germany has taken this course . |
| 14 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 15 | These distributions may be controlled by a combination of subcrop factors ( i.e. presence of Westphalian A and B coal-bearing formations ) and the position of inversion axes ( affecting migration ) . |
| 16 | It was suggested that cross-domain recognition may be constrained by a lack of mutual dictionary coverage and the specificity of the collocations they represent . |
| 17 | The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE . |
| 18 | The easier these objects can be seen and felt , the easier it is to get the meaning across : ( a ) Names of things like pencils , tables and books may be taught by a pointing naming technique , the success of which depends on making clear what is being pointed out . |
| 19 | Such a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly may be generated by a mantle plume , an upwelling of hot mantle originating deep in the Earth 's interior , possibly at the core-mantle boundary ; alternatively , it may be caused by localized heating at shallower depths in the mantle . |
| 20 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) Not more than four occasional permissions may be granted by a licensing board in any one year on behalf of the same voluntary organisation or the same branch of a voluntary organisation . |
| 22 | Commissioners may be appointed by a judicial authority of either the requesting or the requested State , and the Convention enables courts to appoint foreign judges as ‘ commissioners ’ to examine witnesses directly ( under compulsion if necessary ) in their own language and under their own procedures and without the intervention of the local courts . |
| 23 | As we have seen , the speaker may not have any specific idea of the extra contextual assumptions that the hearer will supply and the extra relevance may be achieved by a wide array of weak implicatures . |
| 24 | The expert may be appointed by a third party , such as a company secretary instructing auditors to value shares , which is what happened in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 25 | Eleven more are also doomed — but Mr Gerrard wants to save four others , whose fate may be fixed by a court . |
| 26 | In certain circumstances proceedings for breach of other fiduciary duties may be commenced by a member on the company 's behalf in derivative form . |
| 27 | Second , blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors — that is , various vitamin or trace element deficiencies . |
| 28 | All methods of borrowing open to individuals may be used by a company with the additional method of issuing a debenture . |
| 29 | This attentional failure may be caused by a lowering of arousal level , which may be temporarily counteracted by the subject exerting special efforts to remain awake . |
| 30 | Your pet may be distracted by a scent , for example , and run off regardless of your instructions to sit . |