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

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31 Unfortunately not all key sequences may be represented in this manner .
32 Because of the exemptions provided by the DTI and the SIB respectively , these restrictions in practice normally do not apply to what may be called in general terms business investors , typically persons who are ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 above ) .
33 Point A must , therefore , be on the individual 's budget line ( or , as it may be called in this case , his consumption possibilities line ) .
34 The social worker is not usually involved in the early stages following the patient 's stroke , but may be called in later if the patient is fairly severely disabled , or is an old person likely to need long-term support at home .
35 Other researchers express more cautious optimism as they point out that the carbon dioxide fertilization effect may be offset in some regions by changes in climate .
36 Such kinds of nationalism , which may be strengthened in some cases by the dominance of a particular religion , are not , in their most intense form , generally conducive to the development of a liberal democratic society , as may be seen from certain current trends in Eastern Europe .
37 The precise characterisation of this agent awaits further study but it is clear that most patients with NSAID enteropathy have normal 1 4 C glyocholate breath tests , urinary indicans , and vitamin B 1 2 absorption , all of which may be affected in non-specific intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndromes .
38 Provided that they are consistent with the basic principles set out , as my hon. Friend rightly said , in among other places , the patients charter , the fact that different decisions may be reached in different parts of the country is not surprising .
39 Correspondingly , the two eddy types in Figs. 21.10 and 21.11 may be related in some way rather than occurring independently .
40 A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation .
41 The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action .
42 They may be advertised in local newspapers or on local radio .
43 Revenue from increased sales achieved in this manner may be invested in further development of IT and as soon as a new generation of IT systems is developed the previous generation may be offered for sale on world markets .
44 Social workers may be asked in future to undertake a functional and financial assessment before state funds can subsidise an elderly person in a private rest home .
45 Each individual case will be treated on its merits and special terms and premiums may be imposed in certain cases .
46 Research in biotechnology will continue , although controls may be imposed in some areas .
47 Suspended sentence — activation — whether activation of a suspended sentence is subject to restrictions on the maximum aggregate term of imprisonment which may be imposed in particular circumstances
48 The money supply is of no intrinsic significance : it only matters to the extent that it may be manipulated in such a way as to achieve other intermediate objectives of macroeconomic policy such as interest rate or exchange rate stability .
49 This type of biography must be particularly carefully scrutinized since it may be lacking in much criticism of its subject .
50 But in our rushed , modern lifestyle we often rely on convenience foods and snacks which may be lacking in proper nutrition .
51 Using the church spire as a pointer , the GC may be discerned in this aerial view of the Horns Bridge area sometime in the 1930's .
52 Half-lines may be expanded in typical ways : there may be one , and only one , optional expansion of the verse in one , and only one , of its first two positions .
53 Equitable leases may be created in four different ways : 1 .
54 Certain common elements in the New Primary Approach and the Primary Education Improvement Project — ambitious goals and policies , unrealistic time scales , high hopes and eventual very fragmentary success — may be traced in other big centralised projects throughout Africa .
55 Many of the familiar aspects of modernization , such as a rise of individualism and of specification in material culture use and scientific-rational order , may be traced in these studies , but the evidence provides a means of analysing such changes in terms of the structural organization of everyday objects for the population as a whole , and acts as a balance to the more common literary and self-reflective accounts or these changes .
56 There is still no childhood vaccine although researchers at Southampton University — funded by the National Meningitis Trust — believe one may be developed in five to ten years .
57 As before , this may be developed in either of two ways , provided unc as r increases : x = q + Fx , suggesting the regression formula unc or unc Though the computations may be different , these two formulae are equivalent ; for if xo = 0 the regression formula gives unc and so on .
58 At the moment , trade marks may be registered in individual countries but there are moves to develop an integrated European system although this will present difficulties as the same or similar marks may already be registered in different countries by different proprietors .
59 Although third party claims may be made in all areas of international law , the topic will be examined only in three specified areas .
60 The notice of objection was expressly stated to be ‘ without prejudice to any challenge that may be made in any subsequent proceedings , for instance by way of an action in negligence . ’
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