Example sentences of "that may be [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ .
2 There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ .
3 Wittgenstein does not compare other answers that may be given to the two questions .
4 So , please think carefully before you take an axe to any ivy and consider the harm that may be done to countless woodland birds and insects .
5 The political damage that may be done to governments by industrial conflict may be illustrated by the fall of the Heath government in the course of the 1973–4 British miners ' strike .
6 What roughly he says is that he is committed to the following scientific arguments , arguments based upon scientific principles , regardless of any pain that may be caused to him or to others by so doing .
7 To better understand and service your needs , we make a special effort to answer all of our customers ' questions and to help them with any technical problems that may be related to MiLAN products .
8 The NNW–SSE orientation of early Permian nonmarine sedimentary basins reflects a changing tectonic style that may be related to the early opening of the north Atlantic .
9 Groups that may be related to the eldoniids include rotadiscids , paropsonemids and Velumbrella .
10 Turbulent flows have much higher entrainment rates than the corresponding laminar flows , a fact that may be related to the additional dissipation by the velocity fluctuations .
11 As a result of strong growth , firms hope to become sufficiently large to make a " name " and thus attract new issuers and build placing power , an objective that may be felt to be consistent with long term profit maximisation .
12 ‘ A healthy situation should be the first object that ought to fix the attention of the Society — because there is no person but is very well convinced that a marshy and low Ground exhales very unwholesome and putrid vapours which affect the bodies of individuals that may be exposed to their action either through the pores or attracted by the breath , or otherways by the Food and Drink — if these particles will affect healthy bodies , their effect must be much more pernicious on diseased animals , therefore the Veterinary Infirmary should not be established in an atmosphere continually charged with particles destructive to health .
13 Note 1 : The ‘ number of channels ’ specifies the number of analogue inputs that may be connected to the ADC chip .
14 At any one time , though , there are a number of relationships that may be said to be in a constitutional haze .
15 Fragment VII , comprising the Shipman 's , the Prioress 's , " Chaucer 's " , the Monk 's and the Nun 's Priest 's Tales , can be seen as a group of consistently recalcitrant texts : texts which somehow contradict the expectations that may be brought to them , either in the light of the genre to which the tales belong or in the light of the character of the teller as we might suppose we know it before the tale is told .
16 The same procedure should be followed in the case of other searches , the Schedules that may be attached to the official Certificate of Search , and also answers to your preliminary enquiries and requisitions on title made of the seller .
17 Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on .
18 Features include : Stopwatch — from th sec to 9 hrs 59 min 59.99 secs. 30 lap memory , countdown alarm that may be set to the second , pre-set split times for accurate analysis of race pace .
19 For between the basic drives that may be attributed to human nature and the social structures of human culture there enters a critical indeterminacy .
20 It is conformally flat everywhere except at the boundaries of the interaction region where there are impulsive gravitational waves that may be considered to be generated by the collision .
21 This applies both to standard reports that may be added to a report library to be called off on demand and to ad hoc reports that are produced to answer a special request .
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