Example sentences of "may be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if Nissan gains market share at the expense of cars which would have been manufactured in the UK anyway , problems may be caused for other companies , especially Rover which relies principally on the UK market for its sales . |
| 2 | Firstly , legal aid is not available for libel , but it may be granted for malicious falsehood . |
| 3 | Leases may be granted for short periods of less than a year , up to 999 years . |
| 4 | Samples of the soil , and in some cases all the excavated soil , may be kept for dry sieving or wet sieving in order to retrieve environmental evidence and very small finds . |
| 5 | The central issues which require resolution are the criteria to be used to determine whether a capital instrument represents debt or equity and the treatment of instruments like convertible debt which will or may be exchanged for other instruments . |
| 6 | Land in Bismark Street , Leeman Road , York , may be earmarked for sheltered housing under plans by the city council . |
| 7 | I agree that this scheme is significant not only because of what may be achieved for good in the north-west , but because it can act as a model for planning for other areas and for other denominations . |
| 8 | Bethpage , New York-based Grumman Corp may be looking for computer-related acquisitions , but in the meantime , it is to use up some of its cash pile by spending up to $100m buying in its own shares . |
| 9 | You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week , or 24-hour a day care . |
| 10 | The legal advice scheme may be invoked for initial advice and assistance , but the litigant who requires the services of a lawyer in civil proceedings must rely on the provisions of the representation element of the legal aid scheme or meet the cost himself or herself . |
| 11 | As part of restructuring , the company may be asked for new security , charges on rental streams , new floating charges or inter-company guarantees . |
| 12 | The most common use of these logical operations is to extract , test , and alter selected parts of words of other data-types ; for example , an integral fixed-point number may be tested for odd or even by extracting and testing the right-hand bit ( at least in two 's complement or sign-and-magnitude representation ) . |
| 13 | If this is not possible , a variant module may be created for inaccessible modules . |
| 14 | Students may be registered for full-time or part-time study , and the appropriate degree is awarded after submission of a thesis and its approval by a Board of Examiners . |
| 15 | Exceptions may be made for specific schedules which may be the subject of separate warranties . |
| 16 | A well-reared puppy should have a fair amount of bone and a strong , straight front , that is the forelegs should appear parallel when viewed from the front , the feet turning neither in nor out ( a certain allowance may be made for puppyish softness ) . |
| 17 | At the other end of the scale , rules would define precisely the shots that may be made for specified circumstances , confining all shots to the head and shoulders of the Member who has the floor , for example ( this solution has been adopted by the Canadian House of Commons ) . |
| 18 | For private and voluntary homes , these can vary from home to home and different charges may be made for single and shared rooms . |
| 19 | If you have health insurance , you may be covered for private treatment abroad anyway . |
| 20 | Maize may be grown for human consumption ( corn on the cob ) , animal grain , or arable silage . |
| 21 | Such land may be zoned for immediate development or for development within a specified period of five or more years . |
| 22 | Even within the same series of experimental trials opposite field superiorities may be obtained for similar stimuli processed in different ways . |
| 23 | Diazepam may be given for unresponsive panic attacks . |
| 24 | Two samples are collected ; a — 150 mesh sediment which is analysed for up to 28 elements and a panned concentrate which is examined microscopically and may be analysed for particular elements . |
| 25 | There is a need for good quality equipment , and by varying the colour , shape and size of things provided , the opportunity may be extended for one-to-one correspondence , sorting and ordering . |
| 26 | Management consultants These may be engaged for certain specific tasks such as evaluating the bid , developing a post acquisition stategy or helping with submissions to merger control authorities . |
| 27 | Spanish may be studied for single honours or as part of the MA ( Honours ) in Modern European Languages . |
| 28 | A small amount of the resultant PCR product may be saved for long term storage . |
| 29 | This may be done for rhetorical reasons and is a common ploy in politics . |
| 30 | Brittle Power may be written for American readers ; but it deserves careful perusal everywhere . |