Example sentences of "may be [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joints may be swollen and sore . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 5 ) A sale contravening subsection ( 4 ) above may be treated as fraudulent by the buyer . |
| 4 | ( 5 ) A sale contravening sub-section ( 4 ) above may be treated as fraudulent by the buyer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It may be noted that socio-economic conditions of parents ( as assessed by the father 's or the breadwinner 's occupation ) also play a role in the incidence of low birth weight ; it is the highest among the offspring of non-agricultural manual workers , lower among those whose father works in agriculture and lowest in the non-manual workers ' stratum . |
| 8 | ( It may be noted that equitable rights may themselves form the subject of a trust . |
| 9 | The procedure is particularly apt if there is a risk that the goods may be destroyed or disposed of before trial of the action but it is not confined to such situations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In his will the Dean expressed the desire that ‘ my body may be kept until unequivocal signs of my death shall have taken place … |
| 13 | In a school setting this would mean that differing objectives may be met and individual teachers supported , which would lead to overall harmony but not necessarily maximise purely educational outcomes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once the substrate is bound to the surface of the enzyme , covalent bonds may be formed or broken . |
| 17 | The variables for each level transform may be defined and fixed , or may be ascribed by associations which are varied or satisfied at each stage ( either by direct calculation or by in-built interactive procedures ) . |
| 18 | If one separates them , it may be assumed that vocational courses are more valid than non-vocational , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 19 | Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category . |
| 20 | His advice , therefore , may be rejected as uninformed and undesirable by the footballers ( even though events prove it to be correct ) . |
| 21 | From the production of these budgets it may be felt that certain aspects of the budgets need to be amended before they become operational . |
| 22 | In contrast , HDL levels may be elevated or normal in Type I diabetic subjects ( Garcia et al , 1974 ; Mattock et al , 1979 ; Lopes-Virella et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Where violence is neither used , threatened nor feared , it is not at all clear whether and when consent may be regarded as absent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The report says home phone calls can be useful but only in high phone-ownership areas , and they may be regarded as intrusive . |
| 27 | CBT may be regarded as similar to expert decision support , an off-line supportive system . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |