Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] may be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise my opinion may be based on ignorance . |
| 2 | Say you are my sister , that it may go well with me because of you , and that my life may be spared on your account' ( 12.11b-13 ) . |
| 3 | Please guide my spirit and raise me up from depths of misery , so that my soul may be carried through your wisdom and may struggle fearlessly upwards in fiery flight . |
| 4 | Their values may be depicted on an Argand diagram and it is normal practice to denote zeros by drawing circles and poles by marking crosses at relevant points . |
| 5 | Eye-witnesses claim it dives beneath the surface of Loch Argyll , and its footprints may be seen on the muddy shore each dawn . |
| 6 | Applicants for the Clinical Course Students from the Universities of Cambridge , Oxford and St Andrews reading for medical science degrees who have completed the appropriate parts of their course may be admitted to Phase II in order to complete their medical studies . |
| 7 | Those who are alleged to be unfit to practise by virtue of illness can be referred by the Investigating Committee , Professional Conduct Committee or any concerned citizen to a separate UKCC Health Committee , so that their cases may be considered with medical reports and advice available . |
| 8 | It is such considerations of equity and judgement that make the course-work component in examinations suspect , however much its assessment may be regulated by published sets of criteria . |
| 9 | Part of their resistance may be explained in terms of the inappropriate methods pursued in the past by well-meaning people who were ‘ foreigners ’ to the area . |
| 10 | Its existence may be conceded to be a matter of political fact , but its normative content is a matter of law : the courts are required to enforce the terms of the most recent statement of Parliament 's will , expressed in the usual form … |
| 11 | For example , where particular clients agree that their money may be placed with a particular bank with a view to earning a higher rate of interest but correspondingly accepting a greater risk of default by the bank , those clients ' claims will form part of a separate pool consisting of the assets placed with that bank or ( in the case of a designated fund account ) with a group of such banks . |
| 12 | The relationship of the structure of sCD2 to its function may be illuminated by contrasting its structure with that of the NH 2 -terminal fragment of CD4(D1D2) . |
| 13 | Ortega 's office on Jan. 4 condemned the officers responsible and the provision of army weapons under any circumstances " to any guerrilla movement , regardless of how just its struggle may be considered to be " . |
| 14 | Someone might say : " The conventionalist system is best because fairness requires that people be put on notice when their plans may be interrupted by the intervention of state power , depriving them of liberty or property or opportunity . |
| 15 | They may be exacerbated or their effect may be reduced by circumstances or special considerations . |
| 16 | We pray for the governments and peoples of eastern Europe as they enter a new era ; for Africa , that its peoples may be delivered from fear , oppression and famine , especially in Ethiopia and Sudan ; for the Israeli and Palestinian people that they may honour each other and seek the common good ; |
| 17 | Consequently , Comte believed that both the necessity of government and its functions may be deduced from the principle of the division of labour . |
| 18 | Their lives may be saved by either an appropriate mode of delivery or by ending the pregnancy at an appropriate gestational age — the optimal time for delivery ( the earliest date in a given pregnancy at which birth would carry a higher probability of healthy survival than would continued gestation ) . |
| 19 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 20 | The goal is to renew the earth and to cherish it so that its fruits , its resources and its wealth may be shared by everyone — and without leaving a legacy of pollution and destruction for the next generation . |
| 21 | Equally clearly , the jurisdiction in specified areas may be removed or its exercise may be restricted by Parliament . |
| 22 | Whether the less common B II state actually exists in solution is not clear and it has been suggested that its appearance may be linked to crystal packing effects ( 3–5 ) . |
| 23 | Its particulars may be specified by a diagram such as Fig. 19.4(a) . |
| 24 | With very young children , their contributions may be limited to saying in general what they think they would like and in colouring the cards . |
| 25 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 26 | Programmers do not need to worry about the fact that their applications may be running in parallel , Hinsley says , they merely need to think about the appropriate size of object and Taos will do the rest . |
| 27 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 28 | Its contents may be verified by reference to the works quoted in the bibliography , especially those of Kinsey and his collaborators and by Masters and Johnson in the United States ( although stemming from studies in another and slightly different culture they hold much validity for Britain also ) and by Chatham , Eysenck , Felstein and Gorer in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Its property or its business may be injured by defamatory statements whether written or oral . |
| 30 | A major part of its business may be supplied by , or making supplies to , other group companies and it will be vital to establish whether or not these arrangements are to continue . |