Example sentences of "may be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An open policy to trade may be maintained if the nation is doing well economically , but a less successful economic position may lead to swift and much more extreme action to erect trade barriers and bring in other sanctions . |
| 2 | Neither side feels that its principles may be maintained if it is tempted by the other . |
| 3 | More long-term data are scarce , but evidence suggests compliance may be maintained for at least four years with good blood pressure control and improved cardiovascular risk in non-diabetics ( Dodson et al , 1982 , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | A single dose may be needed to reduce a markedly elevated blood glucose and then glycaemic control may be maintained with twice-daily injections . |
| 5 | It was pointed out that if unproductive consumption is increased equilibrium may be maintained . |
| 6 | In this way basic existential security may be maintained , but at the cost of being less able to desire new attachments to new objects . |
| 7 | It is a means by which a relationship may be maintained with objects which are at the same time always potentially alienable . |
| 8 | Where a change of use occurs the local planning authority is concerned with the intended use to which the property is to be put in order that the character of the locality may be maintained in accordance with other development schemes . |
| 9 | ‘ As my Lord said , there may be particular kinds of libel which can not affect a corporation , but in respect of such libels as are injurious to it an action may be maintained . |
| 10 | Thus , an uncompetitive market structure may be maintained indefinitely because of barriers to entry and exit ; products are not , as in the model , homogeneous , but have differentiating characteristics which enable producers to raise prices without causing a total shift in demand to their rivals ; and finally , purchasers lack perfect information and hence may pay higher prices than they would if aware of alternative , cheaper , sources of supply . |
| 11 | These would include its use in emergency airway management in the field and in cervical spine injury as the neck may be maintained in the neutral position during insertion and laryngoscopy is not needed . |
| 12 | A log book or diary of activities may be maintained during the investigation . |
| 13 | The draftsman should either designate in the lease the place where the advertisement may be maintained , or grant the tenant a right to maintain an advertisement in such place as may be designated from time to time by the landlord or his surveyor . |
| 14 | Secondly , it acts as a source of capital and labour which can be indirectly utilised by other forms of capital that may be operating in different spheres of the economy . |
| 15 | That is , the results shown in Fig. 5.7 may occur because rats generalize readily between stimuli that have had the same consequence in prior training ; but equally it may be that they generalize less readily between stimuli that have had differing consequences ; or both processes may be operating . |
| 16 | If the cat is well and the food is good , then what we are dealing with is a problem in feline behaviour , and any of a number of factors may be operating . |
| 17 | If the process of taking evidence abroad is to serve its purpose , the evidence must be in a form which makes it admissible and gives it proper weight in the proceedings for which it was prepared , and this requires the authorities of the country in which the evidence is to be taken to show considerable flexibility in allowing , and it may be operating , modes of procedure which are quite unfamiliar . |
| 18 | If anything , the most common strategy by far seems to be to abandon the thematic organization of the source text in favour of adhering to whatever word-order principles may be operating in the target language . |
| 19 | Randomised trials of effective treatment may not be feasible in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as numbers of patients are small , event rates are low , and multiple initiating mechanisms requiring different treatments may be operating . |
| 20 | Among the smaller firms supplying the larger ones , some may be operating independently and others as subcontractors . |
| 21 | For example , in urban regeneration the local authority 's objective may be job creation , the objective of central government may be the reduction of crime , the contractor 's objective may be profit from construction , the developer 's objective may be profit from selling on a let facility , and the operator 's objective may be operating profits . |
| 22 | Again , in erm , in animal populations what studies of sexual behaviour actually shows is that individuals are not reproducing the species for the benefit of the species , they 're reproducing themselves and their own genes as fast as they possibly can , given whatever other constraints may be operating . |
| 23 | One explanation from this list is of particular interest : if the economy is in an unusually deep recession , firms may be operating at levels of output at which the marginal cost of production is falling . |
| 24 | Of course , both external and internal factors of this kind may be operating . |
| 25 | Details of the science experiments which the astronaut will carry out may be revealed in the next week or two , Professor Heinz Wolff , of Brunel University , said . |
| 26 | The differing emotions in horses may be revealed by a slight tightening of a muscle or a movement of the whole body . |
| 27 | Albert Schweitzer pointed out that there is a modesty of spirit which should not be violated , although occasionally one 's close friends may be revealed to one in special moments , almost like a flash of lightning which illuminates briefly but clearly . |
| 28 | Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness . |
| 29 | But when the therapist starts to enquire how they react to the problems at home a difference in opinion may be revealed . |
| 30 | It is also suggested that , provided we plunge below the surface of these theories , certain important links between them may be revealed . |