Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] may be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A senior cataloguer who has brought in significant new business through proven negotiating skills may be offered a Deputy Directorship at £20–25,000 . |
| 2 | Elite programmes may be characterised by their focus on a relatively small number of selected managers at a relatively high cost per person . |
| 3 | If relevant to clinical practice these in vitro observations suggest that pseudoallergic drug reactions may be regulated not by pharmacological specificity but by relatively non-specific protein binding properties . |
| 4 | In selecting a new class of options the clearing house attempts to ensure that at all times contracts may be exercised without any undue influence on the share market itself . |
| 5 | He 's concerned that banking attitudes may be holding up the recovery . |
| 6 | It therefore seemed reasonable that other colliding wave solutions may be generated by applying double-Harrison transformations to other Kasner metrics . |
| 7 | These receptors and G proteins may be considered as new classes of proto-oncogenes that might transform cells by enhancing the phosphoinositide-derived signals InsP 3 and DAG . |
| 8 | Eventually the situation continues to deteriorate which it probably will everything indicates that er the situation in Vareys is explosive , erm the U N nations may be forced to have to evacuate these people and obviously there are implications involved in that . |
| 9 | For complex operations steps may be added but the basic steps are : |
| 10 | As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) . |
| 11 | Although the extraction of semantic information from dictionary definitions may be considered an objective in itself , many researchers pursue a specific application , or at least have a range of applications in mind . |
| 12 | In sheltered lakes deltas may be built by much smaller rivers . |
| 13 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 14 | The recent technical improvements in BR planning ( Allen and Williams 1985 : 92–6 ) are unlikely to eliminate political influences ; indeed , as already noted , the effectiveness of action plans may be undermined by subsequent government alteration of planning objectives . |
| 15 | Cocaine metabolites may be detected in the serum or urine . |
| 16 | The money is considerably less than the £12 million that BAS is reported to have requested and has raised fears that some research projects may be terminated . |
| 17 | When cells are exposed to ionizing radiation , the chromosomes of the cell nuclei may be damaged by the production of gene mutations ( dominant and recessive ) , involving alterations in the elementary units of heredity which are localized within the chromosomes , or by the induction of chromosome aberrations , consisting of changes in the structure or number of the chromosomes . |
| 18 | If the search is successful a list of one or more study titles may be viewed at the end of the search . |
| 19 | Although investment plans may be curtailed by high interest rates , current borrowing by many firms can not easily be curtailed . |
| 20 | And in between the P C which we find on many peoples desks may be emulating a character terminal , may be emulating erm an X-terminal to provide that user interface to an individual . |
| 21 | Unfortunately not all key sequences may be represented in this manner . |
| 22 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 23 | Such ancient suture zones may be identified by various lines of evidence such as contrasting pre-collision geological histories either side of the postulated collision zone , the presence of deep ocean floor sediments and associated volcanic rocks , and preserved remnants of andesitic lavas erupted from the continental-margin orogen located on the originally overriding plate prior to collision . |
| 24 | Criterion descriptions may be regarded as setting curriculum objectives , as describing the performance of those attaining the objectives , and as specifications for test items or assessment situations . |
| 25 | As an example of its striking power , 28mm nails may be used , even into hardwood . |
| 26 | Up to 16 task mail messages may be accessed at one time . |
| 27 | Mail messages may be retained for a period of time after initial inspection . |
| 28 | On the pre-trial review applications may be made on notice for reference to arbitration , albeit more than £1,000 is in issue ( Ord 19 , r 2(2) and ( 5 ) ) . |
| 29 | Very large warehouse volumes may be involved — Ford , Dagenham is of the order of 225,000m 3 . |
| 30 | Criterion statements may be derived from the subject matter as a prelude to writing test items . |