Example sentences of "[det] may be [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 2 | That may be expressed in simple terms , but it is the reality . |
| 3 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |
| 4 | Some may be tempted by old dogmas , but most are identifying deeper hungers within themselves . |
| 5 | Works of art of ‘ the same high quality ’ as the Guggenheim Museum in New York , and encompassing ‘ all the essential works in the Guggenheim collection ’ will be loaned to the new museum , initially for a period of twenty years , though this may be extended to seventy-five years or indefinitely , according to the agreement . |
| 6 | Children are assessed while staying at the Institute for up to four weeks ( this may be extended in some cases ) . |
| 7 | At first sight this may be seen as careless farming with so much seed being wasted . |
| 8 | A similar biochemical picture to this may be seen with severe heart failure . |
| 9 | This may be done for rhetorical reasons and is a common ploy in politics . |
| 10 | This may be done by grazing calves on new grass leys , although it is doubtful if this should be recommended for replacement dairy heifers , as it would result in a pool of susceptible adult animals . |
| 11 | This may be done by two methods . |
| 12 | This may be done by tight twisting , using small crocodile clips , or by soldering . |
| 13 | This may be done in various ways , but one simple and useful device is to adopt two auxiliary variables : unc and to write the equations in the form unc Then if we now write unc and unc proportional to exp unc and again seek the complementary function , the four equations may be written , with a little rearrangement , unc This equation can clearly be written in partitioned form as unc or unc where unc The quartic determinantal equation obtained from this first-order set of equations may be seen by inspection to be identical with that obtained from the quadratic formulation . |
| 14 | Writeable control store is attractive in tailoring a computer for a particular application , but there are major problems , in potential loss of compatibility with the manufacturer 's standard software or even between problem programs ; this may be compounded by multi-programming , and errors in microprogramming ( particularly as the latter is usually more complicated than conventional programming ) . |
| 15 | Like the task-leader role , this may be split among several people . |
| 16 | As before , this may be developed in either of two ways , provided unc as r increases : x = q + Fx , suggesting the regression formula unc or unc Though the computations may be different , these two formulae are equivalent ; for if xo = 0 the regression formula gives unc and so on . |
| 17 | This may be caused to some extent by the general abstractness of the language ; but it is also a matter of the kinds of syntactic presentation and complexity that James favours : ( i ) Just as he seems to avoid calling a spade a spade , so James seems to avoid putting first things first . |
| 18 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 19 | This may be achieved with careful allocation of charge codes to users for reserving module names ( there is no harm in having many as opposed to few charge codes ) , and use of the LIFESPAN database management facilities like offline and module version deletion . |
| 20 | This may be achieved through better driving habits , improved traffic flow systems and road networks and car pooling . |
| 21 | This may be achieved by some clause in the guarantee such as ‘ Apart from his obligations under the terms of this guarantee , the manufacturer shall not be liable for any loss howsoever arising . ’ |
| 22 | Certain categories of staff have more chance of being offered accommodation , but this may be limited to single applicants living a reasonable distance from the parental home . |
| 23 | A needs-led approach should begin from but not be restricted to the user 's definition , as this may be limited by low expectations or lack of knowledge about resources ( Fisher , 1991 ) . |
| 24 | This may be renewed at regular intervals , or when the person responsible points out that it is getting low . |
| 25 | It is most unlikely for an odour per se to cause actual physical damage , but where it causes a diminution in the selling value of the property or injures the plaintiff 's business by , for example , causing potential customers to be lost , this may be regarded as sufficient invasion of the plaintiff 's interest to be tortious . |
| 26 | A significant proportion of dietary carbohydrate and starch remains unabsorbed in the small intestine , and this may be increased in acute diarrhoea . |
| 27 | This may be associated with disturbed sleep and irritability and so the scratching may not be noticed . |
| 28 | This may be associated with financial or housing problems , loneliness , problems with relationships , or difficulties coping with the responsibility of having a tiny baby . |
| 29 | This may be described in three-dimensional space by defects in crystalline order , by a para-crystalline array , by micro-crystals or clusters in an otherwise amorphous matrix , by " composite " models ( see Chap . |
| 30 | But the theory still needs a general concept of the state , and this may be elaborated in such a way as to retain , covertly , the idea of ‘ stateless ’ societies existing at the beginning and end of a historical process . |