Example sentences of "may be amenable to " in BNC.

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1 Petroleum wastes may be amenable to activated carbon adsorption if they are relatively small ; bulkier molecules , such as polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) , are difficult to treat by adsorption due to size exclusion from the adsorbent 's micropores .
2 In some cases these may be amenable to the problem-solving approach described in Chapter 5 , once drying-out has been completed .
3 These are all aspects of learning that have been shown to present difficulties to some visually handicapped children , but which may be amenable to remediation .
4 Moreover , a body may be amenable to judicial review even if , to use a graphic phrase of Lord Donaldson MR , it ‘ operates without visible means of legal support ’ .
5 Apart from the correctness of the analogy drawn by Simon Brown J. in Wachmann 's case [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , and the suggestion that the visitors to the Inns of Court may be amenable to judicial review , there was no dispute about the correctness of any of these submissions .
6 Patients developing tolerance to adenosine-mediated protection because of recurrent anginal episodes may be amenable to preconditioning with either a muscarinic or an adrenergic agonist depending on the level in the signalling pathway at which tolerance occurs .
7 Some risk factors in childhood may be amenable to prevention .
8 For example , glycosylated proteins which are unsuitable for display on filamentous bacteriophage may be amenable to selection in a retroviral display system .
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