Example sentences of "it may be [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It may be beneficial to have separate exchange and completion .
2 In order to distinguish between the internal payment certificates for labour-only sub-contractors , labour and material sub-contractors , nominated suppliers and nominated sub-contractors , it may be useful to use different coloured documentation for easier identification .
3 It may be impractical to have local authorities of different sizes for each and every local public good that any locality may provide .
4 Moreover , whereas it may be easy to collect fixed charges from consumers with telephone or gas installations , it is harder to enforce a fixed charge for the right to travel by rail and a fare per journey reflecting marginal cost .
5 It may be appropriate to release supplementary information during this stage ( i.e. final audited accounts , latest management accounts and budgets ) or it may be preferable to delay this until phase II or III .
6 In such cases it may be appropriate to consider continuing full cover on behalf of the new owner of the property until the end of the monitoring period , at which time we will be responsible for any remedial work required .
7 On larger sales or ones with special confidentiality considerations it may be appropriate to prepare additional document for distribution such as a second phase transaction pack .
8 Miller comments that in the case of children with learning difficulties , including mentally handicapped children , it may be helpful to calculate mental age using a development test or a standardised test of intelligence and to compare the MLU predicted by chronological age with that predicted using the child 's mental age .
9 In order to confront the denial system of the sufferer , but at the same time not cause it to be so aroused as to be counter productive , it may be helpful to avoid specific terms such as " alcoholic " , " drug addict " , " anorexic " , " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " anorexia " and substitute a phrase such as " stress and depression and problems with alcohol ( or drugs or food etc ) " or simply " problems in your life " .
10 Where the bearings of timbers are inaccessible , it may be necessary to drill deep holes for saturation of the buried beams ' ends by injection .
11 For example , it may be necessary to install duplex softners operating in service/standby mode to ensure that softened water is available at all times , even during the night .
12 It may be necessary to give chloral as well .
13 The right person may just happen to come along , or it may be necessary to take certain steps to help this happen .
14 But many jobs require very specific education or training and it may be necessary to take careful steps to ensure that the right people apply .
15 Unless there is macroscopic , radiologically detectable disease it may be necessary to perform cytogenetic and immunohistochemical studies on biopsy specimens , possibly even obtained from laparotomy , to exclude lymphona .
16 Another very important area requiring care is that of adequate speed for complex routines ; it may be necessary to sacrifice other ideals of structure , memory-size and transferability in order to make the performance right , and this must take priority .
17 It may be necessary to make artificial materials .
18 With only one or two filters , it may be necessary to have adequate storage for filtered water to keep up the supply while filters are out of action .
19 Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency .
20 With care it is generally possible to express most ideas clearly and accurately ; however , on occasions it may be necessary to adopt particular language or legal formulae in order to express an idea accurately .
21 ( establishments having limited access for accompanied wheelchair users ; it may be necessary to walk short distances and negotiate single steps )
22 While this part is constrained to produce only rotary motion in one plane , it may be necessary to provide additional offset functions ( in the X and Y directions ) to allow it to be drawn about a sensible ( local ) origin .
23 This chapter indicates , too , that it may be profitable to re-examine old and currently unfashionable case studies .
24 If so , it may be possible to include specific provisions to prevent them recurring .
25 The experiments show that this seems to depend both on temperature and pressure , but other experiments show different results ; when these matters are fully resolved then it may be possible to design experimental circumstances where optimal fusion occurs .
26 In particular it may be possible to issue common form probate without the need for any court procedure .
27 That is to say , it may be possible to give powerful functionalist explanations of linguistic phenomena by reference to pragmatic principles .
28 As we have already stated , it may be possible to use completed documents directly as input to a data dictionary system so that the data is held in a readily-accessible computer format as well as on paper forms .
29 Furthermore , by isolating amplification products contained on partially overlapping restriction fragments , it may be possible to use repeated rounds of IRS-PCR amplification to march along contiguous restriction fragments .
30 Investigation of this ‘ crosstalk ’ between receptors may prove difficult in HGT-1 cells because muscarinic cholinergic and gastric recetor have not been detected ( McKenna et al , unpublished data ) , although it may be possible to induce cholinergic receptors by culturing the cells with butyrate ( J P Bali , personal communication ) .
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