Example sentences of "[pron] may be [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The first symptoms which may be felt are hot flushes , night sweats , general anxiety and irritability , loss of self-esteem , insomnia , mood changes , poor memory , loss of confidence , loss of interest in sex and even formication ( the feeling of insects crawling just underneath or on top of the skin , probably caused by changes in the nerve endings ) .
2 Messages which may be reported are as follows :
3 Errors which may be reported are described in Appendix B.
4 Many civil laws are derived from the common law , e.g. tort of negligence , whilst in the area of hotel and catering law the majority of criminal offences which may be committed are statutory , e.g. involving the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 .
5 The decisions which may be appealed are a refusal to grant , renew , transfer or provisionally grant a licence ( s. 17(4) ) , the right of appeal being conferred on the applicant , a grant of a new licence , or a grant of a renewal , permanent transfer , or provisional grant of a licence ( s. 17(5) ) , the right of appeal being restricted to competent objectors who appeared at the hearing of the application .
6 The majority of African departments adopt these curricular policies and materials directly ; any changes which may be effected are of a minor quantitative nature .
7 Subjects which may be investigated are very wide-ranging and may be drawn from history , the environment , politics , culture or from issues of local concern — housing , consumer issues , education etc .
8 An estimate of the total operating costs of the tax ( administrative plus compliance costs ) , and recommendations on how they may be reduced are being made .
9 The only site other than the ano-genital region where they may be found is in the mouth and , when there , they have usually been acquired sexually .
10 Defining and explaining them and showing how they may be measured are the major objectives of this and the following chapter .
11 A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance .
12 The procedure for seeking access to information and the circumstances in which it may be denied are discussed at Chapter 16 , 10 .
13 When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise .
14 Ultimately , however , what may be needed is a set of proper procedural guides and guarantees which would ensure that whatever the legal rules may be , they are observed in practice 66
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