Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A log book or diary of activities may be maintained during the investigation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If anything , the most common strategy by far seems to be to abandon the thematic organization of the source text in favour of adhering to whatever word-order principles may be operating in the target language . |
| 4 | Details of the science experiments which the astronaut will carry out may be revealed in the next week or two , Professor Heinz Wolff , of Brunel University , said . |
| 5 | Whilst in general planning permission is required for all development , certain uses falling within a class specified in an Order made by the Secretary of State may be undertaken without the need for planning permission . |
| 6 | It is at this stage that a major computer study may be undertaken into the integrity of the proposed design , in terms of function , strength , economics , etc . |
| 7 | We suggest that the issue is not that ‘ a considerable possibility of overtreatment ’ exists but that potentially damaging and ineffective treatment may be undertaken outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial . |
| 8 | These duties may be undertaken from the System Manager 's account if preferred . |
| 9 | Allocation to the appropriate worker for further services may be undertaken by the team leader , calling on a social work assistant or occupational therapist . |
| 10 | The preparation of the material may be undertaken by the trial judge , or one of the trial judges , or by another judge or court officer whose primary work consists of such preparation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Other work of a less specialist nature — plumbing , plastering , roofing , flooring and wall tiling , painting and decorating — may be undertaken by the builder 's own work-force , labour only sub-contractors or labour and material sub-contractors . |
| 13 | Work for the degree of MPhil and PhD may be undertaken in the Unit as well as in the main department . |
| 14 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Analysis of both the coin and jewellery shows that the gradual debasement of the coin may be matched by the quality of the gold in the jewellery , pointing-to the coin as being the source of the jewellers ' raw material ( Hawkes , Merrick and Metcalf 1966 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ THIS RECORD might be the stuff of tragi-comedy , but the funereal tune with cumbersome guitars and world-weary singing kills any irony that may be hidden in the lyrics . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As the aggressor is propelled forward by his own weight , strength and momentum , he may be struck in the throat by any one of the basic hand techniques . |
| 21 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 24 | or , having been ordered for consumption off the premises , it may be despatched by the vendor outwith permitted hours . |
| 25 | This is especially useful in a museum context , where vast numbers and types of objects representing different specialisms may be united by the thesaurus . |
| 26 | Tests may be conducted during the pregnancy to establish whether certain types of mental handicap are present . |
| 27 | These tasks may be conducted by the originator or one or more of the consultants who may have expressed a willingness to help . |
| 28 | Alternatively , a search may be conducted by the usage of any group of additives . |
| 29 | Informal monitoring may be conducted throughout the trial together with discrete observation of staff behaviour about which notes may be written . |
| 30 | They believe that the parasites which spread malaria by infecting red blood cells , may be killed by the release of highly reactive substances called ‘ free-oxygen radicals ’ from specialised cells produced by the body 's immune system . |