Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text may be presented in a variety of styles . |
| 2 | Since they may be determined in a way favourable to the defendant , there is no need to decide any other complaints he might have about the conduct of his trial . |
| 3 | Although there is a very wide range of coldwater fish which may be kept in a garden pond the majority of pondkeepers choose Orfe or some of the many varieties of goldfish . |
| 4 | The brush is handy for vacuuming stubborn dust and dirt which may be lodged in a carpet and the crevice tool will reach into awkward corners such as under kitchen units , although it is n't long enough to reach to the very back . |
| 5 | Such home-ground environments may be bounded in a variety of ways . |
| 6 | The cached information may be stored in a file referenced by the logical name LIFESPANCACHE and must be set up by the user . |
| 7 | These various theories may be defined in a number of ways . |
| 8 | Nor is it quite obvious on second thoughts that even in the most literal usages the visual metaphor is wholly dead ; however accurately ‘ insight ’ may be defined in a dictionary , could I handle the word with any confidence without being guided by its grammatical and semantic affinities with ‘ sight ’ ? |
| 9 | The point may be illustrated in a reaction function diagram . |
| 10 | This idea may be illustrated in a study of the rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) by Lynn Carpenter , D. C. Paton and M. A. Hixon . |
| 11 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 12 | As we saw in Chapter 5 , your freedom to move elsewhere may be limited in a number of ways . |
| 13 | ‘ Caseness ’ may be blurred in a setting where relationships with the community are close . |
| 14 | These difficulties may be overcome in a number of ways : |
| 15 | Instead claims by and against third party organisations or individuals may be made in a variety of domestic and regional , formal and informal arenas . |
| 16 | Texts may be organized in a variety of ways , the naturalness or otherwise of their organization being determined by a multitude of factors . |
| 17 | and er analogist principal applies in relation to article eighty six and to this article the effect upon trade must flow from the abuse , however , the definition of the market arises in relation to establishing dominants , there are many cases which established , the market in which an undertaking is dominant need not be the same market as where the abuse occurred accordingly to establish an article of eighty six case , dominants may be proven in a market where there is no effect upon trade . |
| 18 | Statistical representativeness is not , of course , assured simply by means of large numbers ; a large sample , running into several hundreds or thousands may be selected in a way which makes it unrepresentative of the general population , while a small sample may , conversely , meet more precisely the criterion of representativeness . |
| 19 | Information may be gathered in a variety of ways , including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms . |
| 20 | Together , they represent a considerable problem for speech recognition systems : a given word may be uttered in a number of ways such that it never exactly matches the examples with which the system was trained . |
| 21 | Table 6.2 illustrates how the approach may be applied in a back to nursing workshop . |
| 22 | Trend Kwikcoat is fast-drying , so that up to three coats may be applied in a day ; its acrylic base ensures it does not turn yellow ; it is low in odour ; and brushes may be washed out in water . , . . |
| 23 | These features may be formalized in a number of ways ( one is illustrated in Exercise 10–2 below ) . |
| 24 | They may be deployed in a variety of circumstances to greater or lesser effect . |
| 25 | Only in 1835 , after intermittent rioting , subsequently suppressed by the Coldstream Guards , did the magistrates cautiously suggest that unrest had ended , ‘ Otmoor , being now it may be hoped in a state of permanent tranquillity ’ . |
| 26 | This force may be expressed in a person , ‘ old man ’ , ‘ old woman ’ or other names being given to the mythical figure supposedly dwelling in the last sheaf of wheat . |
| 27 | Social policy may be studied in a number of ways . |
| 28 | 8 Sunday settled this book and wrote letter — 24 plates done with the first ground in 32 days — I think when the days get long — one of these plates may be done in a day … |
| 29 | Out-patient treatment may be done in a hospital , clinic , private practice or at the patient 's home . |
| 30 | They may be written in a college course or in the practice of a profession . |