Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle . |
| 2 | both soil and groundwater may be treated in one step ; |
| 3 | Ten Have & heynen suggested that differential Mn uptake during crystal growth may be caused by two processes : |
| 4 | Its sexual effect may be summarised along two lines . |
| 5 | But it is also true that warrants to the security services may be renewed for six months at a time . |
| 6 | The right lasts for 5 years initially from the date of registration but may be renewed in 5 year stages up to a maximum of 25 years . |
| 7 | Unemployment benefit may be cut to six months |
| 8 | THE women 's European golf tour , which in the mid-1980s comprised more than 20 tournaments , may be cut to 11 this year . |
| 9 | b ) culture and sub-culture : the behaviour and standards of a nation or society may be determined by one culture . |
| 10 | Typically a landowner is offered a consideration of , say , £2000 per acre to grant an Option to purchase , which may be exercised within 12 months by the developer . |
| 11 | This danger may be met in two ways . |
| 12 | The overall dependency ratio may be subdivided into two constituent elements ; the elderly dependency ratio , known in the USA as the ‘ gerontic ’ dependency ratio , and the youth dependency , or ‘ neontic ’ , ratio . |
| 13 | I may be subdivided into three elements . |
| 14 | In psychological theories of semantics , the meanings may be stored in one of a number of ways that are described in further detail below . |
| 15 | Each entry may be stored in two versions , the original as taken from the database and stored unconditionally by Oedipus , and the most recent copy , saved at the discretion of the lexicographer ( by employing the protect command ) . |
| 16 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 17 | Whenever an enabling bill is submitted , it is passed to the relevant committee or committees for detailed scrutiny and recommendations ; in turn it may be sent to one or more subcommittees . |
| 18 | Faxes may be sent to 221–25 71 311 . |
| 19 | After the breeding season , baleen whales disperse and individuals may be separated by hundreds of kilometres . |
| 20 | Visits from the prisoner 's family may be limited to one half-hour twice a month , but since that may involve a 400 mile round journey even such infrequent visits may not be possible . |
| 21 | Positive evidence that axes of similar form enjoyed a symbolic status may be cited from one of the megalithic uprights of the Breton passage-grave of Gavrinis . |
| 22 | The decision about which other teachers to select for appointment also rests with the governing body , but this function may be delegated to one or more governors , the headteacher , or one or more governors and the headteacher acting together . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the twentieth century may be regarded from one aspect as the culminating stage in a process whereby the world has been transformed , not into a single political system , but into a single political arena in which there are no longer isolated and autonomous units , but all states and political movements are enmeshed in global politics within which they exhibit varying degrees of dependence or independence . |
| 24 | The provision of this " safe pasture " may be achieved in two ways : |
| 25 | Delivery may be achieved in one of several ways . |
| 26 | In most laboratories standardization is to 15 or 20 minutes but some researchers recommend only 10–15 minutes ( Friedman & Johnson , 1982 , Lewis , 1984 ) and still others suggest that significant changes in the final analytical figures obtained may be detected after 35 minutes of shaking ( Mizutani , 1963 ) . |
| 27 | POLITICIANS MAY BE squabbling over who owns the bombs and ordinary Russians and Ukrainians may be queuing for three hours for a sausage , then three more for a potato , but some good news is coming out of what was once the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | In the patient example , the fact that the person occurrence is female is important , so important that the patient entity may be split into two separate entities — male patients and female patients . |
| 29 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 30 | Throughout the text , other works are cross-referenced for more detailed or specific assistance to a practitioner who may be looking into one particular area in more detail . |