Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 2 | Since the formal procedures of the law are used so rarely , the number of legal samples or prosecutions in which an officer may be involved are never taken as a sign of competence . |
| 3 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
| 4 | Three-mode lasers , especially in folded resonators , are probably more complicated than theorists would wish , but the class of lasers in which chaos of this type may be observed is probably very large , and such experiments may well prove useful in testing the universality of the " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 5 | Subjects which may be investigated are very wide-ranging and may be drawn from history , the environment , politics , culture or from issues of local concern — housing , consumer issues , education etc . |
| 6 | What antisocial impulses may be left are easily controlled , provided the basic genital needs are satisfied . |
| 7 | The exceptional circumstances in which execution may be refused are very narrowly defined . |