Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A log book or diary of activities may be maintained during the investigation . |
| 2 | More long-term data are scarce , but evidence suggests compliance may be maintained for at least four years with good blood pressure control and improved cardiovascular risk in non-diabetics ( Dodson et al , 1982 , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | A single dose may be needed to reduce a markedly elevated blood glucose and then glycaemic control may be maintained with twice-daily injections . |
| 4 | It is a means by which a relationship may be maintained with objects which are at the same time always potentially alienable . |
| 5 | Where a change of use occurs the local planning authority is concerned with the intended use to which the property is to be put in order that the character of the locality may be maintained in accordance with other development schemes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Structuralism may be employed to excavate the principles of classification and order which unite what on the surface appear as highly disparate domains , so that for a particular society food preparation , kinship and myth may be revealed as transformations of each other . |
| 8 | Albert Schweitzer pointed out that there is a modesty of spirit which should not be violated , although occasionally one 's close friends may be revealed to one in special moments , almost like a flash of lightning which illuminates briefly but clearly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such mixture of affective psychosis and schizophrenia may be revealed in changes in the symptom profile that are observed when the person is studied over a period of time , or it may be evident within a single episode of illness . |
| 11 | The differing emotions in horses may be revealed by a slight tightening of a muscle or a movement of the whole body . |
| 12 | Stylometric studies may be undertaken for many different reasons . |
| 13 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 14 | Such searches may be undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategic review or in order to assist a client in implementing an agreed acquisition strategy . |
| 15 | Housing requirements may alter as families move through life , and different types of financial commitments may be undertaken at different points in the life-cycle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These duties may be undertaken from the System Manager 's account if preferred . |
| 20 | Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models . |
| 21 | It is worth noting that imaginative use of unsophisticated technology ( as discussed in Chapter 7 ) can aid this part of an investigation , enabling a large volume of activities that may be undertaken by specified functional groups to be readily summarised . |
| 22 | The design , costing , supervision and execution of a project may be undertaken by different individuals within the organisation but by informal agreement , not legally based demarcation . |
| 23 | Allocation to the appropriate worker for further services may be undertaken by the team leader , calling on a social work assistant or occupational therapist . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Rowan Clinic at the Royal London Hospital has a team of counsellors , so basic assessment may be undertaken by someone other than the client 's personal counsellor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion . |
| 29 | Research leading to the degrees of Master of Philosophy ( MPhil ) or Doctor of Philosophy ( DPhil ) may be undertaken in all Faculties . |
| 30 | Further procedures which may be undertaken in cases where more detailed information is needed or where it is suspected that there may be serious problems with vision include the visually evaluated response ( VER ) and the electroretinogram ( ERG ) . |