Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route must be led , on sight , without clipping the bolt , to make an ethical statement . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him . |
| 3 | Category ( e ) should also cater for the situation where a payment may be made to another insurer in accordance with current market practice as opposed to a specific agreement , e.g. a Travel insurer may seek partial reimbursement from us as Home insurers having dealt with a claim which is covered under both policies . |
| 4 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 5 | Where the Local Government Superannuation Regulations apply and the employee is not eligible to be a member of that superannuation scheme , a payment will be made to the employee under the terms of the Regional Council 's Gratuity Scheme subject to the conditions of the scheme being met . |
| 6 | Ask an occultist for an explanation and a variety will be offered . |
| 7 | At the same time it feared that Britain 's vulnerability to modern weapons was such that her value as a base might be short-lived . |
| 8 | If such a provision may be interpreted subjectively — for example if further finance may be withheld if the borrower 's financial condition suffers an ‘ adverse change ’ and that term is not further defined — it will be unsafe to rely on borrowings under the facility being available . |
| 9 | A provision may be a substantive rule : it may be optional ; illustrative ; mandatory ; or procedural ( a means by which the substantive rules are to be implemented ) . |
| 10 | The effect of such a provision may be to replace the normal absolute obligation to deliver on the agreed date with an obligation to use best endeavours . |
| 11 | If , for example , a provision may be of doubtful import , such resort would be perfectly legitimate … ( p145 ) Because Chalmers saw codification as an improvement in the form of the law , resurrection of old authorities is easy . |
| 12 | A provision will be void for uncertainty where there is real conceptual uncertainty — for example an option to renew " at a rent to be agreed " where there was no indication of how the rent was to be agreed , not on what basis , not what was to happen if the parties failed to agree ( King 's Motors ( Oxford ) v Lax [ 1969 ] 3 All ER 665 ) . |
| 13 | Using conventional x-ray films , a bone loss of some 30 per cent would be needed before a clinician could be sure that changes had occurred . |
| 14 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 15 | Such a trial would be unethical , however , given the unfavourable risk/benefit ratio of cyclosporin treatment in this setting . |
| 16 | There are virtually no placebo controlled trials of acute relapse of extensive ulcerative colitis with which to compare these results , and such a trial would be unethical . |
| 17 | The recommendation that costs thrown away as a result of the death or illness of a judge in the course of a trial should be paid out of public funds has been given effect by the Administration of Justice Act 1985 . |
| 18 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 19 | A sister can be a girl 's best friend — and sometimes her biggest rival . |
| 20 | In areas where it is more entrenched , particularly the deeper waters off Cap Ferrat , a submarine will be used . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , it is not clear how to characterise those contexts , like the following , in which a hyponym can be more normal than one of its superordinates : |
| 22 | If this is inconvenient , a passageway may be possible , with doors leading from the side . |
| 23 | A survey by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) predicts that the UK will be one of the worst performing nations next year , and warns that a recession will be a real risk if interest rates rise again . |
| 24 | But installing a kitchen can be expensive — especially if you have to correct mistakes . |
| 25 | A well-planned kitchen is an asset in any home , but fitting a kitchen can be expensive and mistakes will be costly to put right . |
| 26 | By inspection , it is evident that such a function may be written as unc when x , y are written as columns . |
| 27 | A function may be defined with any number of parameters of any type , and may return ( using = ) a string or numeric result . |
| 28 | A function can be a many-one mapping or a one-one . |
| 29 | As a result , a function can be replaced by another , perhaps more efficient version , without changing the rest of the program as long as the external behaviour remains the same . |
| 30 | Before a function can be managed , one must understand how it works and Fig. 17 suggests how the exhibition communication process works . |