Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker . |
| 2 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 3 | Payment at today 's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments . |
| 4 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 5 | Evidence of the proportion of alcohol in a specimen of breath , blood or urine may be by a document which is : |
| 6 | Viewing may be by transmitted light , CL , or a combination of the two , observed through a lead glass window which absorbs X-radiation . |
| 7 | As noted previously , infection may be by ingestion of the free-living L3 , and this occurs in the majority of trichostrongyloid and strongyloid nematodes . |
| 8 | Housing , health and social work each provide part of the finance and the management of the project may be by a committee representing all three authorities or may be taken on by one of the participating organisations or by a voluntary body which specialises in carrying for dementia sufferers . |
| 9 | Transmucosal transport of the intact oligopeptide may be by the paracellular pathway associated with changes in tight junction structure that accompany Na + glucose activatd absorption . |
| 10 | Whereas the other forms of offensive conduct may be by words or conduct , ‘ disorderly behaviour ’ is specified to be capable of commission by behaviour only . |