Example sentences of "[pron] may be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 2 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 3 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 4 | He knew that this was the moment when he should have said firmly : ‘ I may be moving to London , but not with you . ’ |
| 5 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 6 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 7 | Although I may be forced to . ’ |
| 8 | Someone may be referred to as mulish , a vixen , a shrew , dogged , cowed . |
| 9 | Present-day streamfloods from isolated uplands follow the upper parts of formerly much more integrated and lengthy drainage systems , but deposition as the volume of water is reduced by percolation and evaporation chokes the middle and lower parts of the valleys , which may be converted to dune fields . |
| 10 | One of the practical tasks which may be taught to the patient in prone lying is how to get up from the floor . |
| 11 | A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 12 | ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 13 | Such a profit element may include not only a straightforward management fee but also a hidden profit , such as a discount , which may be given to the headtenant under a block policy of insurance . |
| 14 | There are three basic books which may be studied to good effect : A Complete Guide to Heraldry by A.C. Fox-Davies , revised in 1969 by John Brooke-Little , the present Norroy and Ulster King of Arms ; Boutell 's Heraldry , also revised by Brook-Little ( 1983 ) ; and A New Dictionary of Heraldry ( 1987 ) edited by Stephen Friar . |
| 15 | Among the Dutch paintings on offer are two by Pyke Koch in the style termed Magisch Realisme , which may be compared to the German Neue Sachlichkeit . |
| 16 | As habitus , this distinction between the Kantian and anti-Kantian aesthetic is both derived from material conditions , and in turn provides an insight into a classificatory scheme which may be applied to an infinite number of actual material and consumption domains . |
| 17 | In order to recognize the different characteristics of individual fabrics it is helpful to know a little about the raw materials used ( i.e. , fibre content ) and the weave and various finishes which may be applied to it , as it is the combination of these factors that affect its appearance , how it handles and its performance . |
| 18 | The nether millstone is the nuclear industry , which is protected by the mysterious ENOR — the existing nuclear operating regime — which protects the nuclear industry so that all its power stations will run whenever they are available to run , a condition which may be applied to Sizewell B as well . |
| 19 | Bean ( 1980 ) , in relation to the 1959 Act , makes some points about psychiatrists which may be extended to GPs . |
| 20 | The kernel of the unconscious system is the whole set of instinctual wish-impulses which may be represented to consciousness by dream images . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there is information which may be said to be external to the company , commonly referred to as market information . |
| 22 | It is such questions which one must ask of Christians , particularly Christians who would be feminist , who explain that the creation story ( or any other part of the Christian story which may be said to be sexist ) is to them a ‘ true myth ’ . |
| 23 | The departmental secretary has a standard letter on file which may be refined to the precise addressees and description of the opportunity . |
| 24 | Your salary is £8,250 exclusive of live-in benefits , which may be assumed to be equivalent to a further 20 per cent . |
| 25 | Counselling is concerned with coping mechanisms which may be related to physical health problems , or may be personal and linked to relationships , or sociocultural issues including spiritual beliefs , or may be linked to economic difficulties . |
| 26 | Apart from the El Chichón cloud , the most intriguing aspect of this record is a pair of dips in January and March 1982 , before El Chichón erupted , which may be related to a ‘ mystery cloud ’ of material in the stratosphere . |
| 27 | In addition a coarser time scale of LDO occurrence exists ( Fig. 1 ) which may be related to intervals of major global ocean-atmosphere reorganization . |
| 28 | The possibility of increased virulence in these antibiotic resistant strains ( which may be related to the presence of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance and virulence factors ) suggests that attempts to limit their selection by judicious use of narrow spectrum antibiotics should be considered at all times . |
| 29 | There are a number of studies which suggest that it is sensible to think of subjective risk when driving as a continually fluctuating quantity which may be related to both estimated and objective risk . |
| 30 | Many of the variables which may be related to subjective risk may also be related to subsequent recall of situations . |