Example sentences of "and [adv] may be " in BNC.

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1 The general solution for the effect on ( ) and on may be written : where the coefficient D is assumed positive and the definition of D is analogous to that in Lecture 6 .
2 The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle .
3 With a majority of 21 , they are in a position to vote in any Speaker they wish , and so may be inclined to reward one of their own party .
4 To a certain extent these differences are common to all predators , and so may be ignored , because the reason for attempting the analysis of predator assemblages in the first place is to determine differences between them .
5 Teeth are more easily overlooked in the thick debris of the pellets than are the mandibles and maxillae and so may be under-represented solely for this reason .
6 It has been found , however , that the corrosive effects of digestion on bones and teeth in the predator 's stomach are not duplicated by any other alteration process and so may be used to identify bone assemblages derived from predators .
7 More advanced courses may include elements of document design , and a survey of available systems and technologies with a comparison of their capabilities , but they are still normally designed to teach specific skills and so may be considered as ‘ service ’ courses .
8 For example , the distinctive 60cm bed of laminated diatom ooze which occurs at the base of the 4.4Myr interval is present at sites 847 , 849 , 850 and 572 and so may be correlated over a longitudinal extent of at least 2,000km .
9 In contrast , tax rates are relatively easy to alter and so may be the more appropriate means to adjust fiscal policy when changing economic conditions require action .
10 In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests .
11 fatet : firstly , the child may not have seen the word written down , and so may be attempting to spell a visually unknown word ; secondly , the d-t error is caused by the similarity of the sounds ( cf. 5(d) below ) .
12 This usually leads to removal of the effect of any repeating pattern such as a 2 , 5 or 0 in the last digit because every digit in the number divided is involved in the division , and so may be altered .
13 The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored .
14 Some women are financially dependent on other members of the family and so may be dependent on someone else to pay their Poll Tax bill .
15 This payment is allowable on taxation and so may be recoverable from the losing party .
16 This stresses that the phi system is one of dimensionless numbers and so may be correctly used for statistical analysis to derive factors such as the standard deviation , skewness and kurtosis of grain size distributions ( McManus , 1963 ; Krumbein , 1964 ) .
17 This sets out the objective in each area and at each stage and so may be appropriate for a long or complex assignment .
18 The power of the bureaucracy merely corresponds to the power of the state as a whole and so may be quite compatible with the power ( or lack of it ) exercised elsewhere in the state apparatus .
19 is a fluctuating function and one can measure its mean square , which is where the average is over t , by the procedure of eqn ( 19.1 ) , and so may be taken inside the integration with respect to t' and t " .
20 And long may be .
21 Likewise it is often not sufficiently recognised that the ‘ state ’ which would supposedly execute the progressive measures might be very much disinclined to do so and anyway may be the object of considerable public mistrust .
22 The law of nullity covers not only cases where the purported marriage was void , but also those where the marriage , though initially valid , is voidable , and thus may be set aside .
23 A child is often unacquainted with the precise and specialised social functions which are conventionally ascribed to either speech or writing and thus may be confused when asked to acquire ‘ skills ’ whose functions he or she can not see or act upon .
24 Affinitive relationships are a further type of connection between index terms , and thus may be codified by a similar statement to that encountered in respect of hierarchical relationships : A is permitted , but consider using B or C or , … ,
25 In the literature of creativity one factor appears consistently , plays no part in conventional design and thus may be used to distinguish between the two .
26 For we have to consider the possibility that curriculum planners might assume an employment relationship where one does not exist ( any longer ? ) and conversely may be unaware of , or ignore , one that does .
27 People aged 65 and over may be entitled to a higher personal allowance than the basic , by virtue of their age .
28 First one concerning A. In view of the level of con concern expressed on police funding , would the chairman of the Police authority agree that some f that some protection of Police funds locally and nationally may be necessary .
29 This nucleotide is extruded from activated platelets and also may be derived from injured tissues and erythrocytes ( Bergvist & Arfos , 1976 ) .
30 Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support .
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