Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Discrimination Sexual and racial discrimination can be highly distressing and can take a variety of forms — you may be refused a job , miss out on promotion or suffer harassment by your employer or colleagues .
32 Cooperative acquisition may be taken a stage further if a system of centralized acquisition is introduced .
33 Paradoxically , although the task of updating the information system each month may be considered a chore , many managers insist on doing this task themselves .
34 This may be considered a kind of ‘ deal ’ made with society and other organisations , in which self-determination is allowed in return for high standards of service .
35 Thus , expression of lysozyme mRNA in vivo may be considered a marker for inflammatory rather than resident macrophages .
36 Thus in the medical field , especially with interventionist techniques involving implantation of human products , for example blood or biologics , this may be considered a supply of services because the courts will be reluctant to regard matter of human origin as " goods " ( see Perlmutter v Beth David Hospital ( 1955 ) 123 NE 2d 792 ) .
37 A good rule of thumb is that a model may be considered a potential hit if at least half its base area lies under the template , while models whose bases are only touched or grazed can be ignored .
38 In this way bank bills may be re-discounted a number of times before maturity .
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