Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be [vb pp] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | For example , both radio and television may be perceived first and foremost as entertainment ; or a particular national newspaper may be considered to be primarily the voice of the government rather than a general organ of information . |
| 32 | An extension through this surface may be taken to be the familiar two parts of the exterior Schwarzschild space-time . |
| 33 | When the visiting spouse is accompanied by offspring or other family members , further modification of the partners ' behaviour may be perceived to be necessary . |
| 34 | The difference between the two types of selection may be assumed to be of psycholinguistic importance . |
| 35 | Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm . |
| 36 | This means that because of the high initial sensitivity of most organisms to ciprofloxacin , the risk of mutation may be considered to be relatively low . |
| 37 | Using the condition , the denominator may be shown to be proportional to , which in steady state is strictly positive for . |
| 38 | It is characteristic of fixed capital that it has an assumed lifespan — without taking into account the problem of technological obsolescence — and therefore its replacement may be said to be time-proportional . |
| 39 | This account of the functioning of the family in modern industrial society may be considered to be defective in a variety of respects . |
| 40 | House , furniture , people Doll 's house furniture may be sorted to be placed in particular rooms . |
| 41 | Change to the concretion may be thought to be extraordinarily difficult , for the imagery is built into the literature and thought structure which form the basis of the religion . |
| 42 | A second sense in which the inner-city phonology may be said to be complex is in the incidence of lexical items that have two alternative vowel pronunciations quite distinct phonetically and phonemically from each other . |
| 43 | Section 4 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 adds a new and more important form of interlocutory relief , available in the county court and High Court , whereby goods the subject of present or future proceedings for wrongful interference may be ordered to be delivered up to the claimant , or a person appointed by the court , on such terms and conditions as may be specified . |
| 44 | The most obvious reason why there is a greater concern with visual images than with the printed word may be thought to be the emergence of the new media — film , television and even the computer . |
| 45 | Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association . |
| 46 | A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years . |
| 47 | In some instances an applicaton may be deemed to be bogus after a two-year delay . |
| 48 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the edges are blurred and no one is sure just when youth may be said to be past and the second stage of adult life begun . |
| 49 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 50 | Simple practice without analysis may be seen to be part of the craft tradition ; crafts people and their wares not being subject to literary criticism in the way that arts people are and historically have been . |
| 51 | If the database comprises data representing three-dimensional articles , for example a database of co-ordinates describing sculptures or industrial designs , that database may be considered to be a collection of artistic works so represented or to be a literary work as a compilation . |
| 52 | The RVE for an amorphous polymer may be expected to be no more than 10 nanometres or so . |
| 53 | As Stocking has shown , an innovation may be shown to be effective but not adopted widely , whereas another innovation may not have been demonstrated to be effective yet can become widely accepted in practice . |
| 54 | The dealer who supplies an expert system may be deemed to be supplying a service ( that is , providing the advice available from the system ) even though others , such as the experts who provided the knowledge used in the system and the makers of the system , are responsible ( in a non-legal sense ) for how the system operates . |
| 55 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 56 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 57 | Their family reputation may be thought to be at stake ; the parents may fear lest care of the grandchild should become their responsibility ; the prospect of the girl 's becoming a " bad girl " may weigh heavily ; punishment — of the girl , the man concerned or both -may be a primary demand . |
| 58 | As long as one remains within a biblical and Christian tradition , the problem may be thought to be without solution . |
| 59 | With regard to income tax , of course , the danger is that the powers of the protector are such as effectively to make him a trustee in which case the trust may be deemed to be resident in the United Kingdom under FA 1989 , s110 if the settlor when he created the settlement was resident , etc in the United Kingdom . |
| 60 | Can he give some sort of time scale , given good will on both sides , and when the order may be expected to be placed ? |