Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter goal may be achieved either indirectly , through teachers ' attitudes , or , more directly , through the sex-segregation of play areas and particular activities . |
| 2 | Female influence was greatest in consumer decisions , and least in public affairs ( although , as in the above example of voting choices , the researchers say that the latter finding may be due to the men 's unwillingness to admit to having serious political discussions with women ) . |
| 3 | The latter finding may be a matter of sampling error , since a number of the 14 surveys reported relatively few women in those categories . |
| 4 | The latter situation may be illustrated by examples of the use of the word cul , which can , as in Modern French , have a simple sense of " back " . |
| 5 | The latter version may be more logically correct , but it jars on the ears , and is more difficult to say . |
| 6 | The latter method may be preferred where , for cosmetic reasons , the parties wish to present the transaction as a " true " merger rather than one party taking over the other ; however , it is more unwieldy and expensive and is not often used where there is a risk of a competitive bid being made for either company . |
| 7 | In the latter class may be included not only those which deflect a river such as the spit at Shoreham , Sussex , and Orford Ness , but also the bars and spits which often form across bays . |
| 8 | The latter measures may be carried out by a company representative or the organisation may choose to bring in an outside specialist to run this part of the communications exercise . |
| 9 | The former approach may be regarded as paternalistic or a proper expression of public policy , and the latter as showing respect for the autonomy of the individual or as permitting the exploitation of the worker , depending on one 's point of view . |
| 10 | The former meaning may be loosely paraphrased as : ( 26 ) one of the feats commonly expected of acrobats The second meaning can not be paraphrased by ( 26 ) . |
| 11 | For example , the same message may be segmented differently in response to different questions : |
| 12 | The same message may be sent to many people in the same system . |
| 13 | First , differing parts of the same premises may be covered by different ‘ occupiers ’ who have control over them , and secondly , certain parts may be jointly occupied . |
| 14 | Two applications in respect of the same premises may be heard together , even if one is by a new applicant and the other is not , Such a situation arises , for example , when the present licence-holder and a person claiming , with the owner 's consent , to be a new tenant or occupant , both lodge conflicting claims for renewal . |
| 15 | With the former rental is set up at such a rate that the full cost of the equipment is recovered plus a return , whilst with the latter the contract is shorter and the same equipment may be leased to a number of lessees . |
| 16 | ( As so often happens in secondary schools , the same individual may be enthusiastic in the one capacity for activity which he or she adamantly inveighs against in the other capacity . |
| 17 | The combination of these features emphasises a large problem for speech recognition — the same word may be spoken in many different ways and never match exactly what the system was trained with . |
| 18 | The same exercise may be adapted in other ways — for example , where do they live ? |
| 19 | A second problem which besets the researcher investigating the effects of unilateral cerebral lesions is the possibility that the same functions may be organised in different ways in left and right hemispheres ( Semmes , 1968 ) . |
| 20 | The same principle may be applied in legal proceedings where privilege is claimed . |
| 21 | The same sentence may be expressed as either a question or a statement simply by varying it 's pitch ( e.g. ‘ They 're here ! ’ and ‘ They 're here ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | The same person may be a formal carer in paid employment , and a family carer within the family , thus personally carrying a double burden of responsibility . |
| 23 | Det Supt Bob Wordsworth , who is heading the Cambridgeshire investigation , said : ‘ The same person may be responsible . |
| 24 | Again , the same question may be asked as that which I have asked in relation to Schüssler Fiorenza 's work : given that in every age women have been mistreated at the hands of men , how much do present-day women really have in common with biblical women ? |
| 25 | The same effects may be achieved by having a massage but , unlike a massage , the feeling of lightness can last for days and we can eventually learn how to release tension for ourselves . |
| 26 | Although the services provided by local government originate in these different ways , aspects of the same service may be considered from both points of view . |
| 27 | The first is that the brain is organized with a considerable amount of parallel wiring , so that information about the same event may be encoded in the activity of a number of cells , not necessarily adjacent to each other . |
| 28 | Other workers have shown increased expression of the carbohydrate antigen sialyl Lewis X in chronic hepatitis , with an intensity that seems to mirror the severity of the disease , and the same antigen may be associated with tumour . |
| 29 | What is more , the same conduct may be subjected to a series of different interpretations as subsequent events show it to be part of a pattern of conduct or as an isolated instance , as implicating a wider or narrower range of social relationships , and so on . |
| 30 | Another example demonstrating the same phenomenon may be seen in Fig. 2.41 . |