Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 2 | ‘ You may be robbed or murdered in London . |
| 3 | The intention may be to assess or evaluate : |
| 4 | We pray that you will protect your people from squabbles , over matters which are not relevant to your commission of preaching and teaching the gospel throughout the world , so that in this decade of evangelism , your church may be united and strengthened , and not divided and weakened . |
| 5 | If they are caught in its blast , they may be killed or injured . ’ |
| 6 | Although in some branches of the law a defendant may be treated as intending the known inevitable or likely consequences of his act , that is not so here , for it would stretch the tort too far to impose liability where ‘ the reasons which actuate the defendant to use unlawful means are wholly independent of a wish to interfere with the plaintiff 's business , such interference being no more than an incidental consequence foreseen by and gratifying to the defendant . ’ |
| 7 | For this purpose it should be noted that contracts with a UK counterparty may be treated as entered into in the UK , depending on the facts , and the better view is that advice given to an investor in the UK should normally be treated as given in the UK . |
| 8 | So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993 , it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91 . |
| 9 | This subsection is expressed to apply only in certain defined circumstances , but it is , I think , common ground that it may be treated as having general application . |
| 10 | ( b ) he is not guilty of murder by reason only of the fact that , because of voluntary intoxication he is not aware that death may be caused or believes that an exemplary circumstance exists ; or |
| 11 | the periods during and conditions under which options may be granted and exercised ; |
| 12 | The graph icon on the Quatro Pro speedbar lets you design a floating graph which may be sized and positioned anywhere on the notebook page . |
| 13 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 14 | The place of review may be summarised as shown in Figure 5.6 . |
| 15 | The precise restrictions the Committee recommended , and which were imposed at the beginning of the experiment , may be summarised as follows : |
| 16 | The controls now remaining may be summarised as follows : — |
| 17 | Because it took anthropomorphism to the nth degree , Mr Lendrem 's conclusions may be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) When ducks sleep they close their eyes . |
| 18 | Its contents may be summarised as follows . |
| 19 | The key distinctions may be summarised as follows : |
| 20 | Making use of quotations from Mill , the argument may be summarised as follows : |
| 21 | These reservations accepted , the core curriculum which primary schools have tried to meet ( irrespective of their teaching method or organisation ) may be summarised as follows . |
| 22 | The major recommendations following from this analysis may be summarised as follows ( Maud 1967 , Vol . |
| 23 | The reasons for the growth in local authority expenditure during the 1960s and early 1970s may be summarised as follows . |
| 24 | The procedures involved in the project may be summarised as follows : |
| 25 | ‘ The factors which induced Woolwich to make the payments are set out in paragraphs 12 to 16 of Mr. Mason 's affidavit dated 1 December 1987 and may be summarised as follows . |
| 26 | ‘ The factors which induced Woolwich to make the payments are set out in paragraphs 12 to 16 of Mr. Mason 's affidavit dated 1 December 1987 and may be summarised as follows . |
| 27 | Mr. Munby , in his admirable skeleton argument , has suggested that the approach which best accords with principle may be summarised as follows : |
| 28 | This is found in section 7 of the Act , which may be summarised as follows : |
| 29 | The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows . |
| 30 | The main themes underlying this examination of poverty among older women may be summarised as follows . |