Example sentences of "[adj] may be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be for technical reasons , or a matter of policy . |
| 2 | This may be of pure sample , but more often it is diluted with a salt , usually KBr . |
| 3 | This may be of particular value to investors from Germany and Switzerland , where the tax-sparing provisions in the Portuguese double tax treaties may be used in conjunction with a Madeira tax-exempt company to reduce the financing costs in multinational groups . |
| 4 | This may be of particular benefit in paediatric liver diseases where the diagnosis of PSC may be made without resorting to invasive techniques . |
| 5 | This may be of considerable importance , for in the non-diabetic there are long-established relationships between lipid and lipoprotein levels and macrovascular disease ( Gordon et al , 1981 ; Miller et al , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Erm , you can use ordinary spelling , you probably will use ordinary spelling , or phonetic transcription , this may be for short sections . |
| 7 | This may be through private study , distance learning or attendance at formal courses . |
| 8 | This may be through formal meetings and newsletters but it is likely to be done most effectively by talking to your son or daughter about his or her progress and following up these discussions with the school . |
| 9 | This may be through universal services which reduce social and economic risks in the community , or specific services aiming to improve the circumstances of vulnerable individuals and families . |
| 10 | This may be in live coverage , for news programmes , for special programmes reporting the proceedings of Parliament or for other documentary , current affairs or educational programmes . |
| 11 | This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on . |
| 12 | These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups . |
| 13 | This may be by direct knockdown or by severing the opponents ' kiteline . |
| 14 | Whatever the merits of alternative analyses , and however rare the 9,9 ideal may be among undoubted business leaders at the top of companies , the students are expected to take the Grid as gospel . |
| 15 | These may be of various forms . |
| 16 | This is not to say , however , that prevention is impossible , simply that preventive programmes need to concentrate not only on the removal or modification of isolated stresses , but also on the factors surrounding and responsible for such stresses , for these may be of equal or even greater importance in the development of later psychiatric disorders . |
| 17 | Some of these may be of long standing , an example being improving the standard of fire precautions in places of public resort . |
| 18 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 19 | This rule can not effectively be pursued if strict mens rea principles are applied , however appropriate these may be to other areas of the criminal law . |
| 20 | These may be into existing degree schemes in the same college or another , into specially planned third-year academic or professional courses , or into employment ’ . |
| 21 | Although the educational statistics available may be of questionable accuracy , particularly for the war-torn south , they do indicate patterns of difference . |
| 22 | Of more academic , secondary reference , works two in particular may be of special value . |
| 23 | However , it should be stressed that diagnosis is only one of the aims of assessment and diagnosis on its own may be of limited value in developing strategies for intervention ( Crystal 1984 ) . |