Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] may be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time a subtle change may be made to the details of the computation of the index . |
| 2 | Otherwise , mature profitable products may be loaded with the costs of new product development and closed down too quickly . |
| 3 | A variety of economic strategies may be used to control air pollution , although the use of emission charges and emission permits are the most frequently cited ( table 7.2 ) . |
| 4 | Even without evidence of a causal role in schizophrenia , the reduction of overprotective parenting may be seen to be a valuable preventive strategy for other psychiatric problems . |
| 5 | Where is it clear that reliance may be placed on our association with the preparation of financial information , and where that reliance is not justified by the nature of the association , we should take every opportunity to make the nature of our position clear ( for example , in discussing information , prepared but not reported on by ourselves , with a client 's bankers ) . |
| 6 | The oral shield may be rounded and triangular or distally lobed and like a blunt flattened arrow head . |
| 7 | So the relative position of bureaucracy and other political institutions may be seen historically as a consequence of transitions in capitalism and the state . |
| 8 | That decision may be taken instead by the EC summit due to be held in Rome in 12 months ' time — although the practical effect will be to delay the start of the intergovernmental conference by only a few months to early in 1991 . |
| 9 | The inner city provides a medium through which the political project may be legitimated and the site on which new forces of economic change may be played out . |
| 10 | Sand blown from the very wide sand flats at low tide may be trapped on the bank by pebbles or by such debris as barbed wire or any of the usual drift commonly found on beaches . |
| 11 | In the case of a building which consists of a multi-storey part where this has been vertically compartmented from the remainder each part may be considered separately . |
| 12 | Certain specialists such as female dieticians and nutritional experts may be employed in the health sector but in general positions in the contract catering field remain exclusively male . |
| 13 | At many large computer centres they are literally costed in money ; or each user may be allotted a ration of time , measured in seconds , and a ration of space , measured in ‘ words ’ . |
| 14 | Estimates of the total market value of each segment may be compiled on the basis of those determining variables used to define and quantify the segment . |
| 15 | He argues that the value-creating activities may be summarized in nine categories as below ; each of the support activities may support any of the primary activities . |
| 16 | That expertise may be applied directly or indirectly ; for example , a person writing a report may draft it out on paper and then hand it to a word processor operator who enters it into the computer . |
| 17 | An interim payment may be ordered by the court on application , but an order will only be made when it is clear that the defendant will be held liable at trial . |
| 18 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 19 | There is also an increasing trend towards agroforestry which involves a combination of tree and agricultural crops ; the silvicultural component may be used to provide a crop and to ensure environmental protection . |
| 20 | Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills . |
| 21 | Therefore they must be vigilant to ensure that any advice or document-passing with legal advisers for which legal professional privilege may be sought at some stage is done with external legal advisers . |
| 22 | A number of more specific indices may be calculated from aggregate death and population data . |
| 23 | If the High Court agrees that the sentence is too severe , then that sentence may be amended . |
| 24 | Their privacy and low visibility may be exploited by enforcers who , as a strategic consideration to secure compliance , can hold out the prospect of the ultimate sanction for deviance — the public display of the polluter as a defendant in court . |
| 25 | This fall in the velocity of circulation of broad money may be explained in terms of several factors . |
| 26 | As a generalisation Korean communism may be divided into Koreans living in the Soviet Union and loyal to Moscow ; Koreans working with the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) ; Koreans operating as guerrillas in Manchuria and pursuing forays against the Japanese ; and Korean communists working secretly in Korea . |
| 27 | A quite specific case may be used as an example . |
| 28 | A contract of supply may state expressly that the supplier is to be exempt from performance of some terms of the contract of supply , or that liability may be restricted in some way or other . |
| 29 | The bargaining relations between state enterprise unions and the political authorities may be seen in terms of Pizzorno 's well-known concept of ‘ political exchange ’ . |
| 30 | Nowadays , parental responsibility may be viewed in the same light for school attendance as for child care generally , namely : ‘ the duty to care for the child and to raise him to moral , physical and emotional health … the fundamental task of parenthood and the only justification for the authority it confers ’ . |