Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're tired of typing all the time , you may be relieved to know that the keyboard could soon be a thing of the past , thanks to rapid developments in the world of pen based computing . |
| 2 | You may be pleased to know that all glass doors in Sri Lanka and India remained intact during my visit although there were one or two other incidents , of which more anon . |
| 3 | You may be interested to know that the name of every legator in recorded in a Book of Commemoration kept at our Headquarters . |
| 4 | And if , as I 'm certain once you visit here , you find you want to come back again , you may be interested to know that there is a way you can share in this magnificent Highland retreat , time after time . |
| 5 | There is no indication as to why this name was chosen but you may be interested to know that a Grizzled Skipper is a butterfly that , unlike the Grizzled Skipper card , is not at all colourful . |
| 6 | You may be interested to know that in January 1993 , the total number of visitors to Winfrith Technology Centre was 1821 . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 8 | In your case you may be able to say that your spouse has committed adultery and you find it intolerable to live with her ; or that you have lived apart for two years and you consent to the divorce . |
| 9 | If on the other hand you are someone at home in the complex plane then you may be able to recognise that the argument of a complex number will provide the sort of phase relationships that we hinted at when we mentioned circularly polarised light . |
| 10 | You may be surprised to know that there are as many as four different components to moral behaviour : |
| 11 | You may be surprised to learn that it can do . |
| 12 | You may be surprised to learn that it is taken from the book ‘ The Jews and Their Lies ’ by Dr. Martin Luther the great Protestant reformer . |
| 13 | You may be surprised to learn that the vast majority of our members paying by cheque do so reasonably promptly , like yourself . |
| 14 | You may be surprised to find that gutters and downpipes are regarded as luxuries by most kit garage manufacturers , and having them as part of the kit can add as much as £150 to the price on large double garages . |
| 15 | You may be surprised to find that she does n't want to shackle you with a ball and chain . |
| 16 | For instance , in some intuitive , non-technical sense of ‘ probable ’ , we may be prepared to assert that it is to some degree probable that a very heavy smoker will die of lung cancer . |
| 17 | In this way we may be able to see that he would both agree and disagree with the Archbishop 's statement . |
| 18 | If they go into therapy , they may be disappointed to find that while their marriage is improving or more comfortable generally , sex has ‘ gone off ’ as it starts to become more variable and follow their actual mood . |
| 19 | They may be interested to learn that snowstorms in the Alps have been known to throw a spanner in the clockwork of everyday life too . |
| 20 | Similarly , it may be intriguing to learn that on-line columns of silica-immobilised algal cells can eliminate problems such as overlapping peaks in anodic stripping voltammetry of trace metals . |
| 21 | Although it may be correct to say that when the Accounts were audited they ‘ gave ’ a true and fair view of the company 's financial position it is difficult to say whether or not they now ‘ give ’ a true and fair view . |
| 22 | To this extent it may be correct to say that there is a rule of law against the application of an exceptions clause to a particular type of breach … and in Photo Production v Securicor Lord Diplock recognised that the parties are free to modify their contractual obligations " within the limits that the agreement must retain the legal characteristics of a contract " . |
| 23 | At such times , it may be useful to recall that the current financial services regime was set up to remedy the regulatory failures of the previous system , which was one of regulation under statute by a government department . |
| 24 | It may be easy to argue that there are too few women doing physics and too many doing English ; reversing these trends , however , is an enormously difficult task , as the GIST team found out ( see Whyte 1986 ) . |
| 25 | However , while it may be easy to accept that girls are treated differently from boys in schools , the crucial issue of what is taught in schools may be more complex and controversial . |
| 26 | For them it may be right to say that no conceivable circumstance in their lives would change the nature of their convictions . |
| 27 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 28 | It may be helpful to know that the courts have treated the following as contracts of sale contracts : to make and supply ships ' propellers according to a specification , Cammell Laird v. Manganese Bronze & brass ( 1934 H.L. ) ; to prepare and supply food in a restaurant , Lockett v. A. & m . |
| 29 | It may be helpful to recall that the " beneficial owner " covenants imply : ( i ) Full power to conveythe vendor has a good right to convey the whole property and interest agreed to be conveyed . |
| 30 | Pairs of square brackets indicate that the enclosed formula is to be taken as an E , with round brackets for properties ; where it may be necessary to indicate that a sequence of E P is a clause within some larger construction rather than a simple entity-identifying expression , we shall use scroll brackets as our notational device . |