Example sentences of "may be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " 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 ) . |
| 2 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The question of the place of objects in the formation of mental imagery may be referred back to the discussion of play . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Two : concentrated distilled gin may be watered down to the correct strength . |
| 7 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 8 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 9 | The operative principle should therefore be one of a ‘ retributive maximum , as advocated by Norval Morris ( 1974 : 75 ) : while an individual offender may be punished up to the level indicated by the tariff , there is no obligation to do so if other valid considerations indicate that a more lenient course will be more constructive or humane . |
| 10 | In bed , the very heavy patient may be moved around with the Australian lift . |
| 11 | UB may be pencilled in for a show in the King 's Hall on January |
| 12 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 13 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 14 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 15 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 16 | The migrating cells may be made up of a mixture of all the different cell types in immature form , that go to all the sites and a particular type survives only if it arrives at an appropriate site — a sort of cell selection . |
| 17 | These zones may be made up of a mixture of land uses . |
| 18 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 19 | The remaining two thirds may be made up from a combination of full or half courses in many subject areas , for example chemistry , physics , maths , oceanography , geophysics , geographical sciences , meteorology , archaeology , astronomy , computer sciences , psychology , science studies , economics , arts subjects , languages , law , etc . |
| 20 | Cash deposits may be made up by the customer into standard bank packets and transported by security carrier to Cash Centres , where the credits are checked and applied direct to the account . |
| 21 | Many hoteliers boast of their whirlpool baths but a leading hotel engineer cautions that those on a suck-blow system can trap water in the pump , risking legionella , while detritus sucked in may be blown out into the next bath if the unit is not adequately maintained . |
| 22 | A multilateral treaty relationship may be broken down into a series of bilateral relationships . |
| 23 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 24 | Under competitive tendering requirements , the responsibility for the production of meals may be contracted out to a commercial organisation . |
| 25 | These problems may be sought out by a law centre with a view to running ‘ campaigns ’ to benefit all those in the local community who may be in similar difficulties . |
| 26 | An antechamber may be built on to the main egg-chamber . |
| 27 | Matters previous transferred from the High Court under s 42 may be transferred back to the High Court ( s 42(4) ) . |
| 28 | Each man is thrown back on himself alone and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart . |
| 29 | The levels of these may be increased up to a thousandfold over basal . |
| 30 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |