Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some research and development contracts the degree of technical uncertainty may be such that the requirement can not reasonably be specified in terms of an end result . |
| 2 | Nuances of parental behaviour may be misinterpreted . |
| 3 | In Fig. 1 , for example , it will be seen that if the front of the vault is not correctly placed , the size of the brow ridges and degree of frontal recession may be unduly accentuated . |
| 4 | The simplest tool employed by the sedimentologist is the geographical map on which variations of individual parameters may be plotted , so that patterns of regional variation may be recognized . |
| 5 | A model with these capabilities will provide an important means through which systematic investigation of the effects of economic policies on different spheres of economic activity may be conducted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The second adjustment is less recognised , but more noteworthy : Japanese businesses are coming to believe that the country 's long-term rate of economic growth may be no more than 3% a year . |
| 8 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 9 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 10 | Feminist research involves exposing the ways in which the ‘ male-as-norm ’ principle operates in political and sociological analysis , rejecting arbitrary divisions between the moral and the political , re-evaluating women 's contributions as ‘ private ’ persons to political life and an awareness that women 's ‘ restraint ’ in traditional areas of political activity may be a rational response to the nature of their political environment . |
| 11 | Although that sense of political strategy may be true , it is not the whole explanation of the binary policy in general , or of the polytechnic part of it . |
| 12 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The client 's experience of anxiety for each of the five trials of each target may be represented graphically as in Figure 4.11 . |
| 15 | A small amount of each tube may be removed or the tubes may be cut and the ends closed . |
| 16 | The idea of mass-marketing individualism may be paradoxical , but it is not new . |
| 17 | Evidence of the existence of dry rot may be found in a musty smell pervading a suspect space ; the presence of a whitish cotton-wool-like fungal growth on timber ; cracking and bulging of joinery mouldings such as skirtings and door linings owed to the shrinkage of hidden fixing timber which has been attacked by the fungus ; and readily apparent ravaged timber showing deep cracks across the grain , giving a ‘ cubed ’ appearance . |
| 18 | Scholarships to cover the cost of full-time study may be available from Government or International Agencies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This fall in the velocity of circulation of broad money may be explained in terms of several factors . |
| 21 | A copy of that document may be seen , by prior arrangement , at the Administration Unit , RHQ . |
| 22 | Let us call to mind the ‘ representative firm ’ , whose economies of production , internal and external , are dependent on the aggregate volume of production of the commodity that it makes ; and , postponing all further study of the nature of this dependence , let us assume that the normal supply price of any amount of that commodity may be taken to be its normal expenses of production ( including gross earnings of managements ) by that firm . |
| 23 | Breaking out of that isolation may be one of the greatest challenges now facing our imagination . |
| 24 | Self-promotion of that sort may be a matter for amused comment , but it is widely accepted that one may choose one 's Place in the pecking order , or try to , and that in Britain parentage does not irreversibly define class . |
| 25 | The full measure of that remark may be gauged when it is recalled that he was a senior member of the University Senate and a Fellow of Peterhouse , Cambridge . |
| 26 | While radio can overcome the problem of illiteracy in reaching a mass audience in a country like Tanzania , a large part of that audience may be unable to ‘ talk back ’ to the radio because they can not write . |
| 27 | It may also be desirable to set aside a small area for short-term parking and the use of that area may be restricted to the tenants ' visitors . |
| 28 | So far , studies have concentrated on how the AMPA receptor-mediated component of synaptic transmission may be modified in LTP . |
| 29 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 30 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |