Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less , indeed , than my late brother 's good name , which I consider to be more important than any financial inconvenience you may be caused by the expiry of copyright . |
| 2 | You may be limited by the hours the crêche is open as not all remain open in the evening , or begin early enough in the morning . |
| 3 | If this is the case , you may be taxed on the income in your new residence — and not in the UK . |
| 4 | Of course , other people may respond differently to you and you may be boosted by the results you get . |
| 5 | If you wish to obtain cover please send £5.00 to the office so that you may be added to the list . |
| 6 | On your arrival you may be greeted by the pretty Welsh Palomino pony nodding to you from the field beside the car park , or by the friendly Great Dane , known as ‘ Puppy ’ . |
| 7 | Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain . |
| 8 | If the developer has not sought planning permission prior to the commencement of work and has started work which requires planning permission , he or she may be served by the local planning authority with an enforcement notice . |
| 9 | once the spawning is complete the female must get out of the male 's way and should be removed from the breeding tank , otherwise she may be harried to the point of being killed . |
| 10 | If the ‘ reluctant ’ learner can be introduced to the library — to see a video or hear some music — he or she may be encouraged by the absence of school pressures and associations of poor performance , and by the interest of an adult who is not , nor does not appear to be , part of the school teaching/discipline system . |
| 11 | Taking my cue from her collaborations with David Steele and Andy Cox of the Fine Young Cannibals ( who have produced three tracks for the album ) , I suggest that eventually she may be drawn beyond the usual limits of rap , towards creating real verse and chorus songs . |
| 12 | He or she may be teased by the other children and remain alienated from them into adulthood . |
| 13 | She may be identified by the fact she has hairy haunches and cloven hooves , like a goat , concealed under her gown . |
| 14 | If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs . |
| 15 | At the top of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy self-actualisation needs . |
| 16 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 17 | We may be placed in the same street , but there is room for both of us and more . |
| 18 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 19 | We may be reminded of the ‘ hummadruz ’ , or mysterious humming with no apparent cause , which occurs from time to time , particularly at ancient sites . |
| 20 | As these fish are mostly open spawners , it is pointless supplying numerous caves made of rockpiles as they may be moved during the fish 's excavations . |
| 21 | They may be hampered in the efficient winding up of your affairs by the limited powers Parliament gives to the next of kin in these circumstances . |
| 22 | Therefore , in any year , they may be expensed ( when they have generated revenues ) or they may be stored in the balance sheet ( for example , as closing stock , when they have yet to generate revenues ) . |
| 23 | Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August . |
| 24 | Most proceedings may be commenced in either court , though they may be transferred to the other court in due course ; of the rest , there are some which should always be commenced in the county court and others which should always be commenced in the High Court ( notwithstanding that the county court has jurisdiction to hear the case ) . |
| 25 | They may be recognised by the courts as part of the constitutional background against which a particular decision is taken ( Carltona v. Commissioner of Works ( C.A. , 1943 ) ) , but will not be enforced directly . |
| 26 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 27 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 28 | Where the terms are applied to a large scale transaction , or at the commencement of a trading relationship , they may be scrutinised by the business 's trading partner , and there may even be some degree of negotiation . |
| 29 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 30 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |