Example sentences of "may be [verb] [coord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joints may be swollen and sore . |
| 2 | The procedure is particularly apt if there is a risk that the goods may be destroyed or disposed of before trial of the action but it is not confined to such situations . |
| 3 | In a school setting this would mean that differing objectives may be met and individual teachers supported , which would lead to overall harmony but not necessarily maximise purely educational outcomes . |
| 4 | Once the substrate is bound to the surface of the enzyme , covalent bonds may be formed or broken . |
| 5 | The variables for each level transform may be defined and fixed , or may be ascribed by associations which are varied or satisfied at each stage ( either by direct calculation or by in-built interactive procedures ) . |
| 6 | In contrast , HDL levels may be elevated or normal in Type I diabetic subjects ( Garcia et al , 1974 ; Mattock et al , 1979 ; Lopes-Virella et al , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Families may be split and huge rifts created if it is felt that the wrong choice has been made . |
| 8 | This family is characterised by a large disk often covered with granules , spinelets or sometimes with thickened skin ; the bar shaped radial shields extending almost to the middle of the disk ; the papillae on the jaw usually spine like ; the arms may be branched or simple , covered with granules and distally with bands of minute hooks . |
| 9 | The calmness , even dullness , of one partner may be containing and useful to an excitable other , just as the more emotive response of the latter may engage and bring spontaneity into an otherwise stable and ordered life . |
| 10 | The possibility remains , however , that the two approaches may be developed and reconciled , and a work by Reichman ( 1985 ) has achieved some success in compiling exhaustive formulae for the combinations of moves in conversation , and linking these to particular turn-taking mechanisms . |
| 11 | Babies infected in the womb early in pregnancy may be miscarried or stillborn . |
| 12 | Thesauri may be printed or available on screen . |
| 13 | Some may be converted and disillusioned , others will be unconverted but believing or searching people . |
| 14 | These may be scaled or distorted primitive three-dimensional shapes ( cylinders , blocks , wedges , etc ) . |
| 15 | Similarly , the women may be isolated and destructive or glamourous and powerful ; possible to be pitied , perhaps to be envied . |
| 16 | These orders do not contain a blanket exemption for agreements that come within their terms but provide that in deciding whether or not an agreement is registrable no account shall be taken of any restriction : which limits the extent to which the person accepting the restriction may compete with the acquired enterprise , or may be engaged or interested in , disclose information to , or otherwise assist any business which so competes , provided that the restriction subsists for no longer than the permitted period . |
| 17 | The flow from the tap stops — and there may be hissing or bubbling noises as well . |
| 18 | As the all-party condemnation of mass picketing in Britain in the 1980s demonstrated , few politicians will express public support for militant trade-union tactics , and even those supporters of the labour movement may be reserved or critical in their attitudes . |
| 19 | The oral shield may be rounded and triangular or distally lobed and like a blunt flattened arrow head . |
| 20 | A contract may be written or verbal , but the intention of the verbal form may be more difficult to determine at a future date . |
| 21 | If the transaction is not likely to proceed , much of the advisers ' expensive time may be lost and unnecessary costs incurred . |
| 22 | Summarised reports may be viewed or printed . |
| 23 | On completion of the program this output file may be viewed or printed as appropriate . |
| 24 | On completion of the program this output file will contain any detected CRC errors and may be viewed or printed as appropriate . |
| 25 | Waste materials may be contaminated or laborious to separate . |
| 26 | Practice may be intended or unintended . |
| 27 | Indeed , the assumption that they have characteristics in common may be mistaken or misleading . |
| 28 | However , the charges on both money and other property may be postponed or other property substituted , especially where the money or property is required to provide somewhere for the assisted person to live . |
| 29 | A post as professor — known for historical reasons as a ‘ chair ’ — may be established or personal . |
| 30 | The leave of the court or of some other official agency may be required and official assistance may be available to those who choose to avail themselves of it ; but no special steps to initiate the actual business of service abroad will be mandatory . |