Example sentences of "may be term [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish . |
| 2 | They tend to be , characterized by the phrase ‘ its more than my job 's worth … ’ and may be termed petty officials . |
| 3 | First , in what may be termed classic jurisdictional fact cases such as ‘ if a furnished tenancy , or resources , etc. , exist , you may … ’ the courts well presume that the term , if it is classified as a jurisdictional fact , has a meaning which will be determined by the judiciary and not by the public body . |
| 4 | Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour , whose constituents do not like to be separated , may be termed bound collocations . |
| 5 | Provided , however , that it is properly grounded , failure to engage with it may be termed irresponsible . |
| 6 | The sort of oddness exhibited by 28 may be termed expressive paradox , since the expressive meaning carried by but is inappropriately deployed . |
| 7 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 8 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 9 | These persons were not necessarily well off , but they were literate in Sinhala if not in English and had a relatively high standard of living ; they may be termed local élites . |
| 10 | First , there are what may be termed contractual techniques which are arrived at by agreement between the parties . |