Example sentences of "may be [verb] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 2 | ( 5 ) A sale contravening subsection ( 4 ) above may be treated as fraudulent by the buyer . |
| 3 | ( 5 ) A sale contravening sub-section ( 4 ) above may be treated as fraudulent by the buyer . |
| 4 | If , in the absence of this , he does bid and the reserve price is reached then this may be treated as fraudulent by the buyer . |
| 5 | I will elaborate on the point that I made about the disruption that may be caused when additional tens of thousands of people are brought into the area , if the development at King 's Cross goes ahead . |
| 6 | Similarly , an element which has been mentioned before may be presented as new because it is unexpected or because the speaker wishes to present it in a contrastive light . |
| 7 | The one dissenting voice that is made explicit to us is the Reeve 's : As has been noted , the Reeve 's Tale is often read as a much darker piece than the Miller 's Tale , and such readings are usually rooted in the reading of the Reeve 's character : a character who may be presented as corrupt , as well as frightening , in his General Prologue portrait . |
| 8 | In his will the Dean expressed the desire that ‘ my body may be kept until unequivocal signs of my death shall have taken place … |
| 9 | Or even worse they may be misdescribed as vestigial bequests from our primate ancestry — yet another example of the naive reductionism which sometimes passes as orthodox science . |
| 10 | Increasingly , investigators have become aware of a rather heterogeneous range of problems ( some of them not particularly easy to formulate ) which may be characterized as ethical . |
| 11 | His advice , therefore , may be rejected as uninformed and undesirable by the footballers ( even though events prove it to be correct ) . |
| 12 | Thus , it is uncertain whether and to what extent consent may be regarded as absent where the defendant uses neither violence nor the threat of it . |
| 13 | Where violence is neither used , threatened nor feared , it is not at all clear whether and when consent may be regarded as absent . |
| 14 | Any dietary factor which delays the absorption of carbohydrate may be regarded as beneficial — and here , once again , is where dietary fibre appears in a valuable preventative and protective role . |
| 15 | The report says home phone calls can be useful but only in high phone-ownership areas , and they may be regarded as intrusive . |
| 16 | CBT may be regarded as similar to expert decision support , an off-line supportive system . |
| 17 | In Read v. Lyons , Lord Porter commented that ‘ non-natural user seems to be a question of fact … and in deciding this question I think that all the circumstances of time and practice of mankind must be taken into consideration so that what may be regarded as dangerous or non-natural may vary according to the circumstances . ’ |
| 18 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 19 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 20 | The following three forms of rates of interest may be regarded as suitable for use where it is envisaged that the rate of interest should fluctuate from time to time according to market rates : |
| 21 | The most important consideration was freedom of action ; an understandable response , as childbearing may be regarded as equivalent to a fifteen-year sentence of partial house arrest , without remission for good behaviour . |
| 22 | However , even near synonyms may be regarded as equivalent for some purposes , but not others . |
| 23 | This kind of administrative structure may be regarded as likely to lead to the implementation of policies that are at variance with those favoured by elected local councils . |
| 24 | Finally , in the Annex there are set out a number of terms which , according to the previous draft of art 3(3) , was to be an indicative list of terms which may be regarded as unfair . |
| 25 | The final text adopts a compromise position which changes its status to " an indicative and non-exhaustive list of the terms which may be regarded as unfair " . |
| 26 | Of the four terminal variables V i , I i , V o , I o , any two may be regarded as independent and the other two may then be determined or expressed in terms of them . |
| 27 | The former approach may be regarded as paternalistic or a proper expression of public policy , and the latter as showing respect for the autonomy of the individual or as permitting the exploitation of the worker , depending on one 's point of view . |
| 28 | Either residents or staff at various levels may initiate such developments and this usually reflects a real problem in living with or caring for people who may be regarded as disruptive or anti-social . |
| 29 | In that regard it appears that membership of an association creates between the members close links of the same kind as those which are created between the parties to a contract and that consequently the obligations to which the national court refers may be regarded as contractual for the purpose of the application of article 5(1) of the Convention . |
| 30 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |