Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the method is viable because the sample may be matched to objective criteria or proportions in a manner that is appropriate to the particular research exercise . |
| 2 | It is proposed , therefore , to establish a separate scheme under which options may be granted to overseas employees in excess of the £100 000 limit up to four times annual remuneration . |
| 3 | In such instances , after discussion with the patient when appropriate , these problems may be referred to other members of the health care team such as medical staff , dieticians , physiotherapists or social workers . |
| 4 | one letter introducing the firm and its services may be sent to other professional advisers . |
| 5 | The OAU stated publicly what has been the worry among many developing countries : it welcomed rapprochement between East and West but warned that funds which might have helped alleviate poverty in Africa may be diverted to central Europe . |
| 6 | Your personal recollection of evaluation may be limited to semi-formal evaluation ‘ sessions ’ tacked onto the end of a study block or course , when you were invited to give your personal views and answer preset questions on the strengths and weaknesses of the work or study methods , quality of lectures , usefulness of discussions and so on . |
| 7 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 8 | Certain categories of staff have more chance of being offered accommodation , but this may be limited to single applicants living a reasonable distance from the parental home . |
| 9 | Heavy-metal cations , such as cadmium , nickel , lead , manganese and mercury , may be bound to colloidal particles in the soil . |
| 10 | two ice axe loops with top straps which may be adjusted to varying heights ; two compression straps at each side ; d-ring positioned on each shoulder harness strap . |
| 11 | The extent to which authorities can achieve gains depends , of course , on their bargaining power , which in turn may be related to current ( and local ) economic conditions . |
| 12 | Epidemiological studies have implicated dietary fat of animal origin as an important aetiological factor in the development of colorectal cancer which may be related to altered faecal bile acids . |
| 13 | Many of the variables which may be related to subjective risk may also be related to subsequent recall of situations . |
| 14 | The reason for an increase may be related to increased VLDL catabolism , which in turn produces the apoproteins and lipids forming an integral part of HDL . |
| 15 | An abdominal type of fat distribution may be related to increased androgenicity of these women . |
| 16 | They suggest that this factor may be related to genetic abnormality or more rapid progression of growth in younger women . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It may therefore be expected that the solutions obtained may be related to known cylindrically symmetric solutions , or to stationary axisymmetric solutions , which similarly have a pair of Killing vectors . |
| 19 | With this knowledge , electoral behaviour may be related to local area social and economic characterisation . |
| 20 | According to this author , management may be related to formal authority within an organisation and managers-get others to do their bidding because of their organisational position . |
| 21 | Difference in outcome may be related to different social profiles . |
| 22 | It has been suggested , for instance , that language-impaired children 's problems with syntax may be related to imperfect acquisition of verb argument structures . |
| 23 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 24 | Some elements may be traced to medieval times or even earlier , but in the main local government is a product of nineteenth-century urbanisation . |
| 25 | Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times . |
| 26 | At a hearing before an enlarged Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , seven Lords of Appeal in Ordinary held in Pepper ( Inspector of Taxes ) v. Hart , Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC dissenting , that , in limited circumstances , reference may be made to parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 27 | There is a recognition that export goods outside the Community may be made to different standards so that , by virtue of s10(4) , this will provide a defence . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes a decision has to be made to offer no evidence during the course of the trial ; and similarly pleas of guilty may be tendered to lesser counts . |
| 29 | In the former of these circumstances the old county histories may be searched to considerable effect , for not only may they describe the church as it then was , but give further clues as to where data may be found . |
| 30 | Study Philippians 2:3–4 and state specifically how this passage may be applied to marital ( sexual ) relations . |