Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International consensus on an agreement that would ban all mining and oil drilling activities in Antarctica may be reached at a meeting to be held in Chile in November . |
| 2 | THREE hundred jobs may be created at a superstore at Falkirk . |
| 3 | Substituted service may be made at a defendant 's place of employment or his bank or his former solicitor ( see Supreme Court Practice , Vol 1 , 65/4/16 ) . |
| 4 | It would be wrong to conceive of these two ‘ orders ’ as being respectively University and Ministry based , for both types of information may be collected at a number of levels including school and teacher 's centre level . |
| 5 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 6 | This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model . |
| 7 | Two main types : ( i ) Operations Research models , which are an abstraction of real systems or processes which are used to represent the basic variable and constant features of the reality , so that its behaviour or process can be explored , explained and simulated ; ( ii ) Macroeconomic and econometric models which may be used at a company level , or at a more general industry or economy level . |
| 8 | Only one type of operation may be performed at a time . |
| 9 | Here , as in the Netherlands ( van Wijhe et al. 1980 ) , the ‘ gas window ’ may be expected at a depth of 4000–6000 m ( at a geothermal gradient of 32°C/km ) . |
| 10 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 11 | So , for example , a new fibre-tipped pen , in a range of such pens offered by a newcomer to the market , may be sold at a loss in order to draw attention to the range as a whole , and to establish a share of the total market . |