Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be told that this is an academic quibble since our democratic politicians know what is of constitutional significance in our way of government , approach such matters differently from other reforms , and are politically if not legally constrained . |
| 2 | Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat . |
| 3 | You may be thinking that you have heard all this before . |
| 4 | You may be advised that the intended phraseology is appropriate and legally effective . |
| 5 | Instead of pointing out the errors you may be told that it is very good but have been better in a darker wood ! |
| 6 | e.g. At the beginning of a lesson you may be told that you are to " make written notes on the rise of Louis Napoleon , paying particular attention to his sense of historic mission , his coups and his writings " . |
| 7 | Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had . |
| 8 | We may be assured that , on the Judgement Day , ‘ no one shall be made to answer for what he knows nothing of ’ . |
| 9 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 10 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 11 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 12 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |
| 13 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 14 | It may be suspected that issues on which there would be widespread local resistance , but where a party political split is not clearly in evidence , rarely hit the news headlines because they are quietly negotiated in private discussions between the minister , or civil servants , and the local authority associations . |
| 15 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 16 | It may be felt that replacing two straight cores with a ring structure is too drastic a change to gloss over , but the mechanism is not too different in the two cases . |
| 17 | It may be felt that , when used with care , the maximin approach adequately reflects a conservative philosophy of decision-making . |
| 18 | Physical abuse is not known to be extensive and it may be felt that it has been excessively discussed in the context of ‘ dependence and independence ’ . |
| 19 | It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most . |
| 20 | From the production of these budgets it may be felt that certain aspects of the budgets need to be amended before they become operational . |
| 21 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 22 | It may be concluded that without the experience of events since 1979 , this ‘ faith in the possibility of change ’ could not have become the guiding principle of the prisons . |
| 23 | It may be concluded that the developing embryos and foetus show a pronounced sensitivity to the induction of malformations by radiation , particularly during the main phase of organogenesis . |
| 24 | It may be concluded that the problem of consent is unlikely to vanish whatever means are adopted to deal with it . |
| 25 | In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific . |
| 26 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 27 | There are two extremes : either it can be decided that the creditors are free to distrain on trust property as on any other ; or else it may be decided that the trust property is exempt from such execution . |
| 28 | A few patients who are admitted may be found to be unfit for anaesthesia , or it may be decided that their condition is unlikely to respond to surgery . |
| 29 | For example , it may be decided that a TK50 Tape will be used as an Offline Media Type , the Media Unit for this type of device is MUA0 : , and that Media Items LS0001 , LS0002 , LS0003 , and LS0004 are available tapes for Offline to use . |
| 30 | It may be decided that different restrictions should be applied to different partners , particularly in relation to area restraints . |