Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differing emotions in horses may be revealed by a slight tightening of a muscle or a movement of the whole body . |
| 2 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 3 | Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , s14(4) of SGA 1979 , which is replicated in other supply contracts ( s10(4) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) , provides , " An implied condition or warranty as to quality or fitness for a particular purpose may be annexed to a contract of sale by usage " . |
| 5 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 6 | The screw may be hidden beneath a coloured plastic disc , which needs levering out |
| 7 | ‘ Children may be thrust into a potentially dangerous situation through innocence , chance or youthful mischievousness , ’ said Police Press Officer , Jacqui Hanson . |
| 8 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 9 | Providing patients with information on admission to hospital and throughout their stay may be acknowledged as an important part of nursing but frequently , discharge is a very rushed affair . |
| 10 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 11 | The difficulty is that the group arrangements may be conducted on a daily basis , making it difficult to calculate an exact balance on the morning of completion . |
| 12 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 13 | in severe cases the affected fish may be treated at a higher dose 10mg per litre in a separate hospital tank , for five days . |
| 14 | If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest . |
| 15 | At one level , the spectrum as a whole may be treated as a fingerprint , which can be used simply to recognize the product of some reaction as a known compound . |
| 16 | The tax treatment of discounted debentures is very complex but in many cases the " discount " may be treated as a deduction when computing the profits of a company which reduces the cost of the discount to a company . |
| 17 | However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor . |
| 18 | If the option to renew is included in the terms of the new lease , the lease may be treated as a perpetually renewable lease taking effect as a term of two thousand years ( Parkus v Greenwood [ 1950 ] Ch 644 ; Caerphilly Concrete Products Ltd v Owen [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 372 ; Law of Property Act 1922 , s145 and Sched 15 ) . |
| 19 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | There is , however , another dimension to the debate , and this appears from the CLRC 's view that , where reckless driving causes death , this should not affect the label of the offence but may be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing in appropriate cases . |
| 21 | The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital . |
| 22 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 23 | The slightly lower figure for Stornoway may be caused by a greater tendency for cloud formation over the land to the west and south-west ( the sources of the prevailing winds ) , while exposed western coasts tend to have good sunshine records ( at sea level ) ( Green& Harding 1983 ) . |
| 24 | This may be caused by a badly adjusted carb or a blocked jet within the carb or by an air leak from the manifold gasket under the carb . |
| 25 | ACQUIRED immuno-deficiency syndrome , otherwise known as AIDS , the disease that is mystifying doctors and spreading rapidly among American gays , may be caused by a new strain of African swine fever virus that is infecting pigs in Haiti . |
| 26 | Second , blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors — that is , various vitamin or trace element deficiencies . |
| 27 | If a tap drips persistently , it may be caused by a damaged tap seating which is chewing up the surface of any washer fitted . |
| 28 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 29 | If the system has zone control and all the radiators in one part of the house are cold , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve , which is isolating part of the system . |
| 30 | The lack of rearrangement may be caused by a loss of an as-yet unidentified cis -acting rearrangement-promoting element , as suggested by the dramatic differences in the extent of rearrangement in the wild-type and mutant alleles coexisting in the same thymocytes of TCR -β heterozygous mice ( Fig. 4 c , third lane from right ) . |