Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] may be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this may be understood using Figure 17–2 . |
| 2 | The reason for this may be understood with reference to figure 7.5(b) in which is the phasor representation of the potential difference between nodes B and D , that is , across the detector , before balancing is commenced . |
| 3 | Ideas for this may be found in Chapter 4 . |
| 4 | Secondly , Coleman may have been one of the numerous band of teachers , at present out of fashion , who put their main energies into what after all may be considered the prime function of a teaching institution — teaching . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 6 | Proof of this may be demonstrated by the relative lack of pleasure when smoking a cigarette with one 's eyes shut . |
| 7 | The elements of this may be recalled . |
| 8 | A clear example of this may be seen in the learner driver who grips the steering wheel so tightly with one hand that he has great difficulty in moving the wheel with the other . |
| 9 | In an age when all Unionists professed some form of religious belief and when Anglicanism was the assumption of those who professed no other form of Christianity in England , some of this may be taken to be assumption rather than conviction . |
| 10 | An example of this may be taken from a context in which it is rather familiar : atmospheric motions on the scale that governs the principal features of the weather . |
| 11 | The census of 1991 may be affected by these processes and since the census returns will form the basis of some resource-allocation calculations , severe underestimation of the needs of some areas may be the result . |
| 12 | Any one of these may be highlighted and then located in the database to display a full summary of its present rating with regard to the nature of the substance , its source and effect on man , and notes may be added to expand on this . |
| 13 | The levels of these may be increased up to a thousandfold over basal . |
| 14 | Not every one of these may be stocked by every newspaper shop or bookstall in the country but they are available somewhere and are read . |
| 15 | Each of these may be scored for as many as 50 categories and repeated for say 30 individuals . |
| 16 | TWO options have been put forward in the literature : ( 1 ) Sivapithecus is related to humans , which has little support ; and ( 2 ) Sivapithecus is related to the orang-utan. both of these may be combined with the third possibility that the orang-utan is the nearest living relative to humans , although there is much evidence against this proposition ( Box 1 ) . |
| 17 | To each of these may be added another if we count the faunal extinctions brought about by man in the last million years or so . |
| 18 | Each of these may be entered on its own , and in addition , the following combinations are allowed : |
| 19 | Each of these may be entered on its own , and in addition , the following combinations are allowed : |
| 20 | Also requested is the number of fish caught this trip , the location , and the general conditions mentioned above , though any of these may be excluded as required . |
| 21 | The first and second of these may be thought of , roughly , as equivalent to capital market constraints implemented by the stock market and banks ; the last as a form of managerial labour market constraint . |
| 22 | While Timbury recommended that it was preferable that these be provided in association with small geriatric hospitals , it was recognised that some of these may be provided " free standing " in the community . |
| 23 | In a given situation , more than one of these may be used — for example , fax signals being passed along a telephone line or telephone messages being sent using radio techniques as in a car telephone , cordless telephone or ship-to-shore link . |
| 24 | Article 100A provides that harmonization of national legislation for the purpose of establishing the internal market by the end of 1992 may be achieved by ‘ measures ’ ( rather than directives alone , as under Article 100 ) adopted by a qualified majority . |
| 25 | But the Christmas of 1992 may be remembered by the Australian tobacco industry as one of its bleakest ever . |
| 26 | Often , the vomiting of good may be thought to point to the presence of a simple , partial mechanical obstruction to gastric emptying . |
| 27 | Characters above the limit of 16 may be overwritten by map information when PipeDream is run . |
| 28 | A book may have to be examined for the author 's motives in writing it and for the librarian 's motives in buying it ; and though one copy purchased may be regarded as a reflection of user interest in the title the purchase of five may be regarded as instructional support . |
| 29 | C. 282 , p. 1 ) , and which by virtue of section 3(3) of the Act of 1990 may be considered in ascertaining the meaning or effect of any provision of the Rome Convention , explains the genesis of sub-paragraph ( e ) , at p. 33 : |
| 30 | Scenes such as these may be witnessed in many of the special units for disruptive and disaffected pupils which have been established in the last ten years . |