Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A first attack of herpes in the adult , sexually active woman can often go undiagnosed because the primary lesions may be hidden away in the folds of the labia and close examination is needed to identify the ulceration . |
| 2 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 3 | For example , the word ball may be either a noun , a transitive verb or an intransitive verb but for 99% of cases may be treated simply as a noun . |
| 4 | Now , the fact of a past service raises an implication that at the time it was rendered it was to be paid for , and , if it was a service which was to be paid for , when you get in the subsequent document a promise to pay , that promise may be treated either as an admission which evidences or as a positive bargain which fixes the amount of that reasonable remuneration on the faith of which the service was originally rendered . |
| 5 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 6 | The basic requirements for the grant of a patent are stated in section 1(1) of the Patents Act 1977 as follows : A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied , that is to say — a ) the invention is new ; b ) it involves an inventive step ; c ) it is capable of industrial application ; d ) the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) below … |
| 7 | If one set of product designs can be used as the basis for the development of another , then a CAD system may be employed effectively in the production of those drawings . |
| 8 | This change during the Regency may be noted even in the detail of interiors . |
| 9 | Motivation is the subject of an earlier chapter of this text , but it may be summarised briefly as the process which determines how much effort , energy and excitement a person is prepared to expend in his work . |
| 10 | They feel that , on alcohol advertising in particular , the EC has ducked the issues posed by a single market and satellite broadcasting ; and that as a result regulations may be cut back to the loosest common denominator . |
| 11 | In many cases , the arbitrator may be appointed only from a list of people approved by the brewer . |
| 12 | After it , a new plan for its future may be presented officially to the Scottish Office . |
| 13 | The information from the assessment may be presented orally at a case conference or it may be presented in the form of a written report . |
| 14 | Other apologies may be presented orally at the meeting . |
| 15 | However , the normal-state conductivity n may be determined indirectly through the measured normalized conductivity ( '/ n ) , because the excess conductivity prefactor exc is related to the independently determined coherence length ( 0 ) by Using equation ( 2 ) together with the experimentally determined values ( ( ref. 11 ) and ( ref. 12 ) , we obtain the zero-temperature residual normal-state resistivities and , where the subscripts K and Rb represent K 3 C 60 and Rb 3 C 60 , respectively . |
| 16 | The law states that the power to exclude a pupil from a county , voluntary or maintained special school may be exercised only by the head teacher . |
| 17 | The justification supposes that so long as a person is possessed of a right , that right may be exercised regardless of the consequences for others . |
| 18 | Studies of the molecular biology of hepatitis B virus have shown that the expression of HBsAg and pre-S2 protein is controlled by the same transcriptional promoter , whereas the expression of pre-S1 protein may be regulated independently by a second , usually less active , promoter . |
| 19 | An example of such indicia would be the Stigma ( or Stigmata ) Diabolicum — bloodless , insensitive patches which may be discovered anywhere on the body of the possessed . |
| 20 | Under current European Community regulations , individual patients may be referred elsewhere in the Community for treatment in certain specified circumstances , with the prior authorisation of the Department . |
| 21 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 22 | I trust you will look favourably on both these applications and on any others that may be sent in by the various organisations within the village . |
| 23 | Such enabling legislation may be introduced in one or both of the houses of Congress by individual elected members , or may be sent there by the Executive . |
| 24 | For that reality too may be reinterpreted philosophically as an illusion , a world of appearances , what Schopenhauer calls " the veil of maya " , interposed between ourselves and the ultimate reality — by which is meant the ground of being , the primordial oneness or unity of all individual things . |
| 25 | The child understands that these may be exchanged later for a big reward . |
| 26 | ‘ The aim of this inquiry into the order relating to case no. 596 , in the charge of Miss P. Sulkins , home visitor in the employ of the Bamborough Area Council for Social Service until last year — the pink file , sir — and transferred from the list covered by the South Midlands ( Eastern Section ) Administrative Area — the papers in the yellow folder , sir — is to try and establish an order of events that stretch over no little period in time , so that responsibility for the unfortunate outcome of these actions , or as some have chosen to prejudge this enquiry , lack of action , may be apportioned justly between the various bodies responsible under the Act . |
| 27 | Such a phenomenon may be illustrated further by the facts in Phillips Products v Hamstead Plant Hire ( 1985 ) 4 TrL 98 , which involved the hire of a crane and driver . |
| 28 | It may be rejected also on the grounds that it is patronizing . |
| 29 | If a specific sum is anticipated in 6 months time , and today 's price of the share in which it is intended to invest is considered low or is forecast to rise , then the price may be fixed now by the use of a call option . |
| 30 | Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength . |