Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [conj] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prisoners ' Dilemma is an interesting metaphor for the fundamental biological problem of how cooperative behaviour may evolve and be maintained ; alternative approaches involve , for example , studies of how the patchiness that can be created by limited dispersal or population ‘ viscosity ’ might favour the evolution of altruism through the elevation of inclusive fitness within kin groups . |
| 2 | This fluid phase may migrate and be consumed in melting reactions elsewhere , or rise as a low-viscosity fluid , causing metasomatism in refractory lithosphere away from the melt zone . |
| 3 | The syllabus may influence and be influenced by the matter of staffing : who is going to teach what ? |
| 4 | Is he also a key person in any decisions made about the other offices which may exist or be proposed in his nation ? |
| 5 | Sandwiched between the sufferers and the directors or managers of the institution in which they work ( or overwhelmed by the pressures of survival if they work on their own ) they may expect or be expected to carry and solve the burdens of both . |
| 6 | 3 Check for items which may dislodge and be inhaled , e.g. loose or crowned teeth . |
| 7 | Packer and Pusey suspect that the likelihood of finding non-relatives in a coalition probably varies with the average age of its members , because young related males may die and be replaced by singleton males from other prides . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most difficult matter will be to resolve differences between the professional regulations of bodies whose members may wish or be permitted to form MDPs or , in the absence of complete harmonisation , to prescribe effective means for dissolution of an MDP where the standards required by one body only are put in jeopardy . |
| 9 | Sounds within words may change or be missed out altogether : |
| 10 | Some information is registered and acted upon , other information may register but be stored and recalled later whilst other information may not be registered at all . |
| 11 | They may overlie or be overlain by sexual difficulty which is endemic in an age group or among people with certain forms of disability . |
| 12 | Note that a judge or district judge may sue or be sued in accordance with the rules set out below , but if the court in which the action would be commenced is a court of which he is judge or district judge , then the action may be commenced in the nearest court or most convenient one of which he is not the judge or district judge ( Ord 4 , r 7 ) . |
| 13 | Any one of two or more partners carrying on business in England or Wales may sue and be sued in the name of the firm in which he was a partner when the cause of action arose ( Ord 5 , r 9(1) ) . |