Example sentences of "[adj] may be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These may be organized by local groups such as stroke clubs , so that patients and their carers get together for outings or entertainments and shows . |
| 32 | These may be minimised by prophylactic penicillin V therapy , which should begin at about six months of age . |
| 33 | In some cases , the decision about quantity ( and indeed time ) may be dictated by considerations of future supply , particularly where these may be threatened by economic or political pressures . |
| 34 | Management consultants These may be engaged for certain specific tasks such as evaluating the bid , developing a post acquisition stategy or helping with submissions to merger control authorities . |
| 35 | Many children will not be used to ‘ sit down meals ’ or ‘ laying the table ’ , for instance , and skills like these may be learned in purposeful activities in school and practised spontaneously in play . |
| 36 | He may not be authorized to make changes to other components ; these may be owned by other design teams or may have become " fixed once production has commenced . |
| 37 | The last three may be combined in so-called grand unified theories , or GUTs , which are not very satisfactory because they do not include gravity and because they contain a number of quantities , like the relative masses of different particles , that can not be predicted from the theory but have to be chosen to fit observations . |
| 38 | Employees ' attitudes towards the country concerned may be based on false pre-conceptions . |
| 39 | The abundance and the functional effects of N-Oct 3 may be regulated by different mechanisms : ( i ) transcription of N-Oct 3 may be regulated in a temporal and tissue specific manner , ( ii ) the RNA half life might be controlled by sequences in the 3' untranslated region as suggested by our findings ( iii ) a bias in translation in favour of N-Oct 5 proteins may serve to neutralize the effects of the N-Oct 3 protein . |
| 40 | The lack of any faster dissociation species from this large footprint does not necessarily mean that each of the 3 available sites have long dissociation times , but that binding to site 3 may be excluded for steric reasons as well . |
| 41 | A book may have to be examined for the author 's motives in writing it and for the librarian 's motives in buying it ; and though one copy purchased may be regarded as a reflection of user interest in the title the purchase of five may be regarded as instructional support . |