Example sentences of "may be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important that national authorities administer Community rules in a coherent fashion and that companies are aware of their Community rights , some of which may be newly acquired , to ensure that they benefit fully from them . |
| 2 | The law is called upon to distinguish between information which may be legitimately used to make a stock market trade , and that which may not . |
| 3 | It relies instead on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power and the conditions subject to which that power may be exercised : a theory that contends that power may be legitimately held only for the purpose of furthering the public good . |
| 4 | An ordinary fully comprehensive car insurance policy usually includes damage to your own car , but sums for serious bodily injury may be strictly limited . |
| 5 | But for teachers who wish to use the video on the basis of a fuller teaching programme , there are also lesson plans for four periods per episode , and , where access to a video recorder or time in the teaching schedule may be strictly limited , ideas are included on how to use just one classroom period per episode . |
| 6 | If it is set too high then the end of tape may be physically reached and Offline will believe there is still space available . |
| 7 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 8 | They may be physically attached to the front cover of the publication , slipped between the pages or offered on the editorial pages . |
| 9 | CURRY lovers who regularly put themselves through the pain of eating hot , spicy food may be physically addicted to the ‘ high ’ it gives , according to new research . |
| 10 | In addition , applicants with high numbers of points awarded for medical reasons may be favourably treated . |
| 11 | The bridge of the nose is depressed with a ‘ saddle ’ appearance and the upper jaw may be small compared to the lower . |
| 12 | In an educational application , the user may be firmly channelled by the controlling software into pathways that suit the particular didactic purpose of the application . |
| 13 | Though tasks may be clearly stated ( school visiting , crime prevention enquiries , contact with ethnic minorities , etc. ) , outcomes , not being tangible , can not be measured . |
| 14 | Though tasks may be clearly stated ( school visiting , crime prevention enquiries , contact with ethnic minorities , etc. ) outputs , not being tangible , can not be measured . |
| 15 | However four main stages may be clearly defined , decision making , decision taking , solution implementation and control ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 16 | Its fate may be clearly seen in this view taken after the diversion of local trains to run via Oxspring and Barnsley . |
| 17 | If someone shines a small torch at one end , the light may be clearly seen to emerge from the other . |
| 18 | These relationships may be clearly seen if betas are considered as proxy measures of security volatility relative to that of the market . |
| 19 | they may be clearly demarcated from men ; and |
| 20 | Shivraj Jadeja and John Singh show how they may be double penalised under the Community Care Act |
| 21 | The contraction of the work caused by using cable patterns may be partly counteracted by working to a looser tension than usual and this should be tried on the sample . |
| 22 | The flat may be partly formed of sand swept from the island and partly of coral . |
| 23 | Another way in which reductions in stratospheric ozone levels may be partly offset has been suggested in Derwent ( 1982 ) , who believes that aircraft operations in the upper troposphere have caused an increase in ozone production . |
| 24 | While corticosteroids have an adverse effect on bone mass , this may be partly counterbalanced by improvement in the inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 25 | The reasons for this difference may be partly explained by the different techniques of measurement . |
| 26 | Indeed , the reason for the greater frequency of chronic diarrhoea in this study in comparison with others in the United Kingdom , may be partly explained by the subgroups of children who had recently travelled abroad and those who had an itinerant existance . |
| 27 | This may be partly explained by the large study population needed to show even a modest advantage ; the statistical power of the study being proportional to the number of deaths within the population . |
| 28 | The differences between our results and those of some published studies may be partly explained by variations in design and analysis . |
| 29 | The range of frequencies that we can respond to may be partly determined by our size . |
| 30 | The richness of the Malesian flora , for example , may be partly accounted for by the Laurasian elements in the lowland rain forest and the Gondwana elements in the heath forest and in montane communities . |