Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion . |
| 2 | This is thought to facilitate moving around on twigs and branches which , for a bird that lays its eggs in nests that may be hidden in thick vegetation , is an advantage . |
| 3 | Physical indications that may be caused by defective vision : unusual head position while working ( poking forward or held sideways ) ; work held at an unusual distance or angle ; frowning , squinting or facial grimaces when trying to read ; complaints of headache or dizziness during visual activities ; covering one eye with the hand , or closing it ; aversion to bright light . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This means that several hundred of the 40,000 deaths from lung cancer each year may be caused by passive smoking . |
| 6 | Recent evidence favours the idea that inflammatory bowel disease may be caused by mesenteric vasculitis . |
| 7 | Aggression may be caused by nagging pain , which your dog is unable to express to you , and which is soothed by acupuncture . |
| 8 | Other fears may be caused by unpleasant shock or injury . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Firstly , legal aid is not available for libel , but it may be granted for malicious falsehood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In these circumstances a decision not to adjourn may be challenged by judicial review . |
| 14 | In insulin-deficiency states ( as in Type I diabetes ) lipoprotein lipase activity , estimated by post-heparin lipolytic activity , may be impaired with resultant hypertriglyceridaemia . |
| 15 | Intravenous acetylcysteine remains the antidote of choice in Britain for patients presenting to medical care early enough ; oral methionine , another precursor of hepatic glutathione , is probably inferior to acetylcysteine as vomiting is common after overdose and metabolism to glutathione may be impaired by increasing liver dysfunction . |
| 16 | This information may be relevant as a reminder or it may be presented as new information . |
| 17 | Just as for two-terminal networks , the large-signal response of a four-terminal network may be determined by graphical analysis of the static characteristics . |
| 18 | Such subordinate staff , including enforcement officers , as may be determined by Senior Management . |
| 19 | Samples of the soil , and in some cases all the excavated soil , may be kept for dry sieving or wet sieving in order to retrieve environmental evidence and very small finds . |
| 20 | Price-off coupons , either in or on the pack , may be redeemed against future purchase of the product . |
| 21 | Results presented here suggest that the two α subunit variants in humans may be regulated by alternate splicing . |
| 22 | For example , a local authority 's education programme may be subdivided into pre-school education , primary education , secondary education and adult education . |
| 23 | The doctors point out in the British Medical Journal that , though crack dependency is not a direct risk factor for Aids , prostitutes ‘ trying to maintain expensive crack habits may be tempted into unsafe sex practices … which in turn may lead to an increase in the spread of Aids ’ . |
| 24 | In residential environments where boundary enforcement is strong , adolescents may be tempted into boundary-transgressing behaviour which may well generalise later on to drug/alcohol seeking behaviour . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , property folk may be tempted by eastern promise if markets in western Germany start to cool . |
| 26 | As with a privatisation , small investors may be tempted by short term profits and , like Eurotunnel , the issue is a hostage to many variables . |
| 27 | Therefore , for equilibrium to subsist a part of the surplus-value must be accumulated as constant capital , and only a further portion may be accumulated as variable capital . |
| 28 | As we get older , we may be abused by other authority figures — teachers , doctors , bosses . |
| 29 | Sometimes , the mortgage advance will be sent by cheque and on other occasions it may be sent by telegraphic transfer . |
| 30 | Some aspects of our environment may be prized above economic development , while others may be less highly valued and reasonably the subject of trade-offs . |