Example sentences of "may be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appreciate that this is a recurring argument , and that , ultimately , grants on the Council 's own expenditure may be treated this way . |
| 2 | I I 've a feeling that er she may be seeing individual students this Friday er and that 's all so er I do n't think there will be a tutorial . |
| 3 | ‘ For the first time since the start of the recession , ’ said Mr Hayward we may be seeing some glimmer of light , particularly as the figures tie in with the slight decrease in receiverships this quarter and with recent reports of an increase in business optimism . |
| 4 | Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service . |
| 5 | You may be granted Legal Aid subject to the payment of a financial contribution , usually payable by instalments . |
| 6 | Corporations may be granted these devices , but they are normally permitted only to counties , cities and councils of standing ; and companies and institutions of an important national nature . |
| 7 | Not everyone can or needs to excel at everything , and unless people are allowed to concentrate on what they are good at we may be wasting valuable resources . |
| 8 | Fields which may be frequently accessed may be designated key fields by the database administrator and held on the index , to facilitate this easy access . |
| 9 | No shot is fired and no further shots may be fired that game — the gun is now useless . |
| 10 | The bow may be fired three times in the shooting phase , but it must be fired at the same target ( be this a unit of troops , a monster , or whatever ) . |
| 11 | You may be reading this newsletter as someone the Regional Council has consulted in its efforts to identify the options for reform in Lothian . |
| 12 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 13 | Since Chinese officials have also said recently that there will be few major alterations to the Basic Law between its interim and final drafts , their intention may be to declare that proliferation of ideas about political reform indicates an absence of consensus in Hong Kong , and leave Mr Cha 's proposal in place . |
| 14 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
| 15 | This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing . |
| 16 | In non-contentious civil matters the client may be charged such sum as is fair and reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the case and , inter alia , its complexity , the skill and responsibility involved , the time spent , the number and importance of the documents , the amount or value of money or property involved , and the importance of the matter to the client . |
| 17 | Those affected may be vomiting many times a day and may also be abusing laxatives . |
| 18 | If the sales mix and the profit margins of the two products are different this causes problems because while overall sales volumes targets may be achieved total contribution will vary depending upon whether the higher or lower margin product dominates the sales mix . |
| 19 | Those who find it objectionable that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously may be assured that art represents the highest task and the true metaphysical activity of this life : witness the illustrious pioneer on my path , to whom I dedicate this essay . |
| 20 | Western economic pressure may be creating mental ill-health in the Third World ; and Western ‘ hi-tech ’ psychiatric methods are so inappropriate in this context that they may be doing little to mend the damage . |
| 21 | In much of our reflection on this question , we shall also be dealing with a third , which will be as important , that of the nature of certain other necessary or nomic connections , which hold between what may be called nomic correlates . |
| 22 | Although supplementary facts should not , in general , be added to a problem , the case is different with what may be called omitted facts . |
| 23 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
| 24 | ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency . |
| 25 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 26 | The focus of his concerns seem to have lain close to tradition , and although what he wrote may be called natural history and social history , such definitions trammel him . |
| 27 | He stated the position at p617 as follows : There is no question here of what may be called sentimental damage bereavement or pain and suffering . |
| 28 | In the Mesozoic , stratigraphical subdivision has reached its greatest precision and it should be possible to construct what may be called isotachic maps ( Greek : isos = same tachos = speed ) . |
| 29 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
| 30 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |