Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The differing emotions in horses may be revealed by a slight tightening of a muscle or a movement of the whole body . |
| 3 | Activity with tools may be undertaken by the whole class as a supervised group , or may be later activities undertaken by small groups of their own volition , and the circumstances under which this latter is to take place must be carefully organized in advance . |
| 4 | And at VAG , if a house purchase falls through , further survey fees ( in addition to the one building society and one private survey already carried out ) may be reimbursed with the prior approval of the personnel manager . |
| 5 | BRITISH BUSINESSMAN John Ward may be reimbursed by the Kenyan Government for the £500,000 he says he has spent investigating the murder of his daughter Julie in the Masai Mara reserve five years ago . |
| 6 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 7 | The screw may be hidden beneath a coloured plastic disc , which needs levering out |
| 8 | The tentacle pores are relatively large armed with 2 flat scale-like tentacle scales , and occasionally the first arm pore may have 3 , the third may be hidden beneath the other two . |
| 9 | One plate may simply override the other , but another possibility is that a ‘ flake ’ of continental crust from the upper surface of the downgoing plate may be thrust over the adjacent plate for a distance of perhaps 100 km or more . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If a tap drips persistently , it may be caused by a damaged tap seating which is chewing up the surface of any washer fitted . |
| 17 | Lastly , on systems with zone control , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve which is isolating part of the system . |
| 18 | If the system has zone control and all the radiators in one part of the house are cold , the problem may be caused by a faulty motorised valve , which is isolating part of the system . |
| 19 | It is particularly common amongst ex-judo players , and may be caused by an awkward fall . |
| 20 | A crisis may be caused by an actual or threatened loss or hazardous event , which challenges and outstrips the actual coping capacity of the client and/or the family ( Caplan , 1961 ) . |
| 21 | It may be caused by an accidental or inadvertent release from an industrial plant , and the effects may range from annoyance ( e.g. odour ) through minor illness or discomfort ( nose , eye and breathing irritation , coughing , nausea ) to , in some cases , serious illness or even death as happened at Seveso , Bhopal and Chernobyl ( table 7.3 ) . |
| 22 | This latest controversy follows a report published yesterday in the British Medical Journal which suggests childhood leukaemia may be caused by an unidentified infectious agent , such as a virus . |
| 23 | This increase may be caused by the increased alcohol consumption in the country because most pancreatitis episodes are caused by alcohol in Finnish studies . |
| 24 | The figures do not take into account the stress which may be caused by the competitive element involved ; they relate simply to the physical benefits . ) |
| 25 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 26 | Under the statute , such a warrant may be granted on the spurious ground that the police suspect that public order offences may be committed by large numbers of people . |
| 27 | The draftsman should , therefore , consider whether to impose on the tenant a limit to the number of persons who may be employed in the demised property in order to avoid overloading the available facilities . |
| 28 | Although the phrase ‘ care workers ’ is not in general use , the term has been chosen to describe a wide range of people who may be employed in the voluntary or statutory sectors and who have responsibility for the services made available in the community to support old people and their caring relatives . |
| 29 | There are similar sanctions which may be employed against a reluctant witness in the county court and High Court . |
| 30 | Such decisions of the Commission may be challenged before the European Court , provided that the complainant company has been directly and adversely affected by the conduct of which complaint has been made . |