Example sentences of "may be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although a second group of trucks was allowed over the river by the Serbs yesterday , UN officials fear it may be halted short of its destination .
2 I I 've a feeling that er she may be seeing individual students this Friday er and that 's all so er I do n't think there will be a tutorial .
3 They also have not yet learned to use their eyes together ( called binocular vision ) , so they may be seeing double or seeing only through one eye .
4 You may be granted Legal Aid subject to the payment of a financial contribution , usually payable by instalments .
5 A lease may be granted subject to the " usual covenants " .
6 It is true that during bouts of acute psychotic illness — or as an accumulating effect of several episodes — there may be impaired social and intellectual functioning , but this has more the appearance of a secondary consequence and , in any case , is by no means seen in all individuals .
7 ( If all the salad is not used immediately , it may be kept refrigerated — without the shredded lettuce — for up to 2 days . )
8 In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ .
9 In order to protect the privacy of those whose lives are recorded , the material may be kept confidential for some years , or may be available only in a form where individuals can not be identified .
10 Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end .
11 I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open .
12 The designer may be kept aware of other objects intruding into his space by excursion or wireframe descriptions , whilst working on a solid or surface model .
13 The hands may be kept busy so that the mind can reflect , and see the pattern inherent in the tangled mass of threads .
14 Not everyone can or needs to excel at everything , and unless people are allowed to concentrate on what they are good at we may be wasting valuable resources .
15 Fields which may be frequently accessed may be designated key fields by the database administrator and held on the index , to facilitate this easy access .
16 For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked .
17 ( So that tests may be sent direct to them ) .
18 Other forms ( FLRA and FLRB ) may be sent direct to Ipsley Court .
19 COOK 'S NOTE : The petits choux may be served warm or cold .
20 Similarly , although it may be felt necessary for children to have some understanding of violence ( trench warfare ; personal violence ; the physical , visual , and verbal violence of city life ) , one would wish children to be spared the direct experience of it .
21 Techniques of zero-based and flexible budgeting need organisational sophistication in setting objectives and interpreting results , which may be felt inappropriate to relatively small surveying practices .
22 It may be felt desirable to inform guests that one party was previously a devoted husband or wife , a widow or widower , who after years of loneliness should be congratulated on at last having found happiness again .
23 This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing .
24 Each turn may be regarded equivalent to a ring in which a current I flows .
25 This is of course not valid near the ends but if the solenoid is long enough , eqn ( 3.71 ) may be regarded valid for most of its length .
26 If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix .
27 Western economic pressure may be creating mental ill-health in the Third World ; and Western ‘ hi-tech ’ psychiatric methods are so inappropriate in this context that they may be doing little to mend the damage .
28 In much of our reflection on this question , we shall also be dealing with a third , which will be as important , that of the nature of certain other necessary or nomic connections , which hold between what may be called nomic correlates .
29 Although supplementary facts should not , in general , be added to a problem , the case is different with what may be called omitted facts .
30 First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest .
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