Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general practice is that a discount of up to one third should be allowed from a sentence but may be limited when the protection of the public is required , when there is a ‘ tactical ’ plea , or when an offender is caught red handed . |
| 2 | This may correspond with a ley or may be something of a more sinuous natural . |
| 3 | A grant of a licence in a restricted form , when a full licence has been applied for constitutes a refusal and may be appealed ( Wolfson v. Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 17 ) . |
| 4 | The latter are sometimes forgotten and left in the vagina at the end of a period and may be responsible for a persistent , foul , vaginal discharge , which is , however , easy to treat . |
| 5 | This technique usually involves instruction from a therapist but may be learnt with practice and patience alone . |
| 6 | Those with dementia may attend the day hospital for the elderly one day a week and may be supported in the community by one of two specialist psychiatric nurses . |
| 7 | It is true that this is likely to happen when a whole class has just embarked on a subject and may be thought ready to take Grade 1 all together . |
| 8 | A talk to probation officers will indirectly reach a section of the community — prisoners — who are not able to come to a bureau and may be seriously in need of a bureau 's services , as was seen in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | Models give a general picture , explain relationships in a simple way , organise by ordering and relating elements within a system and may be used to predict the likely outcomes of a course of events by assigning probabilities to known patterns . |
| 10 | Merger is of course a possibility and may be even desirable given OSF 's financial distress . |
| 11 | With regard to the latter , it is apparent that the problem of poverty is not one that affects the household considered as a unit but may be differentially experienced by members of the family . |
| 12 | Those wishing to move into the ‘ South ’ may be unable to afford to buy a house or may be able to buy only a much smaller house with the money raised from their existing dwelling . |
| 13 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |