Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Providing patients with information on admission to hospital and throughout their stay may be acknowledged as an important part of nursing but frequently , discharge is a very rushed affair . |
| 32 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 33 | This is especially useful in a museum context , where vast numbers and types of objects representing different specialisms may be united by the thesaurus . |
| 34 | The difficulty is that the group arrangements may be conducted on a daily basis , making it difficult to calculate an exact balance on the morning of completion . |
| 35 | Whereas the discussion of strain and its measures involves kinematics only and may be conducted with no mention whatever of the forces that cause the deformation we must when considering stress involve ourselves in mechanics , that is , the nature of the forces operating on a system and the application of Newton 's laws ( we exclude in this discussion any relativistic effects ) . |
| 36 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 37 | Tests may be conducted during the pregnancy to establish whether certain types of mental handicap are present . |
| 38 | These tasks may be conducted by the originator or one or more of the consultants who may have expressed a willingness to help . |
| 39 | Alternatively , a search may be conducted by the usage of any group of additives . |
| 40 | Informal monitoring may be conducted throughout the trial together with discrete observation of staff behaviour about which notes may be written . |
| 41 | They believe that the parasites which spread malaria by infecting red blood cells , may be killed by the release of highly reactive substances called ‘ free-oxygen radicals ’ from specialised cells produced by the body 's immune system . |
| 42 | in severe cases the affected fish may be treated at a higher dose 10mg per litre in a separate hospital tank , for five days . |
| 43 | If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest . |
| 44 | At one level , the spectrum as a whole may be treated as a fingerprint , which can be used simply to recognize the product of some reaction as a known compound . |
| 45 | The tax treatment of discounted debentures is very complex but in many cases the " discount " may be treated as a deduction when computing the profits of a company which reduces the cost of the discount to a company . |
| 46 | However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor . |
| 47 | If the option to renew is included in the terms of the new lease , the lease may be treated as a perpetually renewable lease taking effect as a term of two thousand years ( Parkus v Greenwood [ 1950 ] Ch 644 ; Caerphilly Concrete Products Ltd v Owen [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 372 ; Law of Property Act 1922 , s145 and Sched 15 ) . |
| 48 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 49 | The ‘ offer ’ probability may be treated as the product of ( i ) the probability that a vacancy will come to the individual 's notice and ( ii ) the probability that the individual , if available , will be ‘ offered ’ the job . |
| 50 | There is , however , another dimension to the debate , and this appears from the CLRC 's view that , where reckless driving causes death , this should not affect the label of the offence but may be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing in appropriate cases . |
| 51 | The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital . |
| 52 | The occasional outbreaks of Type II ostertagiasis in young adult sheep in the spring may be treated with the same anthelmintics . |
| 53 | The patient with perceptual problems may be treated by the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist simultaneously , to help his overall awareness . |
| 54 | But information may be treated by the speaker as given for a variety of other reasons . |
| 55 | Moreover , s11(2) of SGA 1979 provides that conditions may be waived , or a breach of a condition may be treated by the buyer as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 56 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 57 | The slightly lower figure for Stornoway may be caused by a greater tendency for cloud formation over the land to the west and south-west ( the sources of the prevailing winds ) , while exposed western coasts tend to have good sunshine records ( at sea level ) ( Green& Harding 1983 ) . |
| 58 | This may be caused by a badly adjusted carb or a blocked jet within the carb or by an air leak from the manifold gasket under the carb . |
| 59 | ACQUIRED immuno-deficiency syndrome , otherwise known as AIDS , the disease that is mystifying doctors and spreading rapidly among American gays , may be caused by a new strain of African swine fever virus that is infecting pigs in Haiti . |
| 60 | Second , blocks may be caused by a deficiency of enzyme co-factors — that is , various vitamin or trace element deficiencies . |