Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [adv] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though variation in male success may be caused principally by differences in mate or territory quality ( whereas , in polygynous species , differences in mate number are the main cause of differences in success : Bateman , 1948 ; Wade , 1979 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 2 | Solid particles may be filtered out by yarn packages and by fabrics , and , if the deposit is dark , stains occur or the stains can absorb colour and become dark . |
| 3 | Riders may be separated only by seconds , but a good prologue ride is a valuable psychological boost . |
| 4 | This regulation of NaCl absrption may be achieved largely by modulation of acid-base transport systems . |
| 5 | This may be achieved either by way of limitation in the grant of the right itself or by way of separate covenant . |
| 6 | This may be represented pictorially by Fig. 2.1 . |
| 7 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 8 | You may input an unlimited number of addresses which may be called up by name , town , any of two user-defined fields or simply scroll through the list in ‘ Rolodex ’ fashion . |
| 9 | These may be followed up by agreement between members and the College some time after the programme . |
| 10 | Come with your healing , reconciling power , that fear and oppression may be cast out by love , prejudice be replaced by trust , hostility give way to gentleness . |
| 11 | A DEC Rdb/VMS relational database may be created automatically by LIFESPAN RDBI following the instructions in the RDBI configuration file ( see Appendix D ) . |
| 12 | Claims may be made both by contractors and consultants and the principles described here generally apply . |
| 13 | The recurrent descriptions of bishops restoring their cities may be inspired more by notions of the ideal bishop than the reality of an individual 's activities . |
| 14 | Other topics may be covered perhaps by stories , or by a video , or possibly through work with a time-line , or an outline session . |
| 15 | Unlike haemonchosis in sheep , grazing cattle over two years old are relatively immune although this may be broken down by drought conditions which lead to poor nutrition and heavy challenge from congregation of animals around watering points . |
| 16 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |
| 17 | ‘ Power games may be played out by others around you . ’ |
| 18 | Data may be obtained purely by observation but usually involve asking questions . |
| 19 | Early work is often missing from an artist 's oeuvre , while student work or juvenilia may be saved only by chance or possibly by a devoted family . |
| 20 | It means that there must be constant vigilance by the authorities ; it means that there must be methods of responding swiftly to alarm bells that may be rung either by staff or by children and that there must be alarm bells that can , in real life , be rung . |
| 21 | Athletics : British athletics may be torn apart by ITV contract |
| 22 | An alteration in your working pattern or routine is indicated — and may be triggered off by developments around the 24th . |
| 23 | What is more disturbing if we wish to achieve a simple separation of grammar and semantics is that on occasions one and the same deviance may be cured either by adjustment of closed set items , or by the replacement of open set items . |
| 24 | Alternatively , parties may be dominated more by individuals than by issues , and the process may be one of competition for political leadership ( Schumpeter , 1954 ) . |
| 25 | Moreover , 70 per cent or more of a spray aimed at foliage can be lost in droplets falling to the soil , and deposits on plants may be washed down by rain . |
| 26 | Some activities , distribution , haulage , advertising and marketing , may be carried through by specialist firms who also provide these services for other industries . |
| 27 | A traffic survey is being carried out at Sappers Corner , an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Hartlepool , and it has raised hopes that improvement works may be carried out by Cleveland County Council . |
| 28 | Green was evidently helping to sell it for Yates in Manchester , as Harrop 's Mercury , December 12th 1787 , p.1906 says , ‘ subscribers may be supplied also by Mr. Green , Manchester , who was an assistant in this work ’ . |
| 29 | John Winant , the US ambassador in Britain , wrote on 28 February that this reflected Britain 's concern with security rather than with ‘ commercial enterprise ’ ; ‘ It also reflects the British apprehension that they may be swamped competitively by US aviation and their consequent desire to guarantee themselves a percentage , even though small , of the available business . ’ |
| 30 | In the grasshopper Gomphocerippus rufus elements of the male courtship pattern can be related to the activities of single motor units and sound production may be described quantitatively by reference to the efferent discharge to known groups of muscles ( Elsner , 1968 ) . |