Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A primary objective for ODA-funded BGS support for the Geological Survey Department is the training of junior professional and technical staff so that both posts may eventually be filled by local staff . |
| 2 | State enterprises may be converted into limited-liability companies or joint-stock companies , but financial institutions or saving co-operatives may only be converted into joint-stock companies . |
| 3 | Mail may only be sent to other LIFESPAN users using option 6.5.0 — Send Mail Message . |
| 4 | In Stage II , however , resits may only be given on compulsory modules , normally including projects and dissertations . |
| 5 | Certain status changes may only be authorised by senior lexicographers . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , certain landlords tend to abuse rights of access and as a first step the tenant should ensure that the right is subject to reasonable notice and may only be exercised at reasonable times , except of course in cases of emergency . |
| 7 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 8 | In the coming weeks the The England party is due to visit outposts such as Cuttack , Jampshedpu and Ahmedabad which may only be reached by tortuous train journeys of up to 15 hours , some requiring overnight travel between games . |
| 9 | The Information Memorandum may only be released to potential acquirors once we have received the signed confidentiality letter . |
| 10 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 11 | The core of these theories maintains that contractual obligations may only be incurred by voluntary consent . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court enjoys an effective if indirect and delayed veto over legislation and executive actions , and its decisions where based on the Constitution may only be overridden by constitutional amendment ( involving the approval of two-thirds majorities of both the House and the Senate and of three-quarters of the states ) . |
| 13 | The Supreme Court enjoys an effective if indirect and delayed veto over legislation and executive actions , and where its decisions are based on the Constitution they may only be overridden by constitutional amendment ( involving the approval with two-thirds majorities , of the House and of the Senate , and of three-quarters of the states ) . |
| 14 | Poizner ( 1979 ) infers that spatial processing dominates in sign perception even though these lexical items may normally be experienced in temporal sequences , just as in spoken language . |
| 15 | These confounding factors may largely be excluded by future case-control studies . |
| 16 | They may soon be joined by elected sympathisers . |
| 17 | He may soon be caught in other local-government traps |
| 18 | Police may get new-style baton THE police may soon be issued with new-style batons to replace the old truncheon which has hardly changed in 150 years . |
| 19 | It is sadder still that the weight of being given funding may soon be lifted from FAB by the London Borough 's Grants Unit proposal to cut FAB 's grant . |
| 20 | Revision of aseptic technique may best be covered by one-to-one teaching , whereas the care of the terminally ill patient may best be discussed at a tutorial . |
| 21 | Such images have little flexibility and may easily be destroyed by mundane realities . |
| 22 | At the moment , trade marks may be registered in individual countries but there are moves to develop an integrated European system although this will present difficulties as the same or similar marks may already be registered in different countries by different proprietors . |
| 23 | to be designed for ‘ unstressed operation ’ so that processing may generally be completed within normal working hours |
| 24 | Roots may just be retained in small market towns like Grantham , Selby and Chipping Norton , in spite of the tourists . |
| 25 | Their facility in acclimatizing may still be called into frequent use during the lifetime of individuals , for example in the annual frost-hardening of herbaceous plants . |
| 26 | For this crime , Fenrir was sent into exile forever more , though his leering face and slavering jaws may still be seen in rosy cloud formations at sunset . |
| 27 | The democracy movement outside China may only play a more substantial role if a new power vacuum allows the exiles to return home — although , like Sun Yat-sen 's Tongmenghui party after the 1911 revolution , they may still be outmanoeuvred by domestic political forces . |
| 28 | If the mark is unregistered it may still be protected by common law , and its owner could take steps to prevent its use by asking the court for an injunction under the tort of passing off . |
| 29 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 30 | Nearer our own time , millstones were fashioned from the gritstone rocks of the upper slopes for the many water-powered mills in the district , and debris of this industry may still be found by diligent search near Sand Tarn . |