Example sentences of "as [modal v] [be] " in BNC.

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1 For grass roots workers , the findings are important as may are worried about how to intervene in cases of physical abuse , the stress involved and the fact that it may be too complex .
2 Where , and only where , such court established under this Constitution as may be prescribed by law is satisfied that —
3 And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography .
4 The expectations of the two parties may be very different , as may be the amount of time and effort they each put into the deal .
5 Sir : The internal market advocated by the Government for the NHS ( in particular for the hospitals ) may not be as new an idea as may be thought .
6 This latter task was not as trivial as may be supposed in a society where wood and straw huts burnt down regularly .
7 Unknown to many primitive societies , it provides a lightning-conductor for envy , as may be seen from the readiness with which gains of pure chance are left outside an otherwise highly egalitarian ( ‘ envious ’ ) system of taxation .
8 request the Congress to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as may be necessary and desirable to permit close and fruitful collaboration of scientists and engineers of Great Britain , the United States , and other friendly countries .
9 Both of them are ‘ such knowledge of effects or appearances , as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generations : And again , of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects . ’
10 The criteria used vary considerably between countries , as may be expected .
11 In 1771 , Miller 's successor , William Forsyth , reported to the Garden Committee that Mr Miller , an engraver , desired to view and take plants ‘ as may be of use in the work he is now engaged on ’ .
12 By its Contract with you ILG Travel Limited does not enter into an Agreement for carriage by air but only undertakes to reserve on your behalf accommodation on board an aircraft operated by one or other of the airlines mentioned in this brochure or such other airline as may be substituted .
13 There is just sufficient traverse on the axles to allow the limited motion necessary to produce a water-tight abutment , the pressure being maintained as long as may be necessary for the manoeuvring of the vessels .
14 You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought .
15 if the [ LEA ] does not itself decide the special educational provision that should be made for the child , but leaves that to be decided by the school , with remedial classes and other facilities as may be available in the school , the [ LEA ] is not itself determining the special educational provision for the child within the meaning in section 7(1) ; consequently , the [ LEA ] is not obliged to make and maintain a statement … .
16 It is the very temple of discomfort , and the only charity that the builder can extend to us is to show us , plainly as may be , how soonest to escape from it .
17 This was surprising in view of the fact that , under this Act , it is the local authorities who are empowered to provide and maintain such buildings , vehicles , apparatus , and equipment as may be required for the police purposes of their area .
18 That s as may be , but I ca n't imagine Elsie committing suicide .
19 to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of the ordinary shareholders are proportionate ( as nearly as may be ) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held or deemed to be held by them , subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , legal or practical problems arising in any overseas territory or by virtue of shares being represented by depositary receipts , the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange , or any other matter ; and
20 Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders .
21 When you use your Card for a transaction to be carried out with or through the agency of another organisation or individual , we reserve the right to supply to that organisation or individual ( as the case may be ) such information as may be appropriate in the circumstances .
22 Your intruder alarm ( or such parts of your intruder alarm as may be agreed in writing by us ) must be set before you your family or domestic employees retire for the night .
23 The first , as may be expected from the name , had letters as wide ( or half as wide ) as their height , and remain quite familiar to modern eyes , as being the face from which present-day upper-case ‘ Roman ’ type has descended .
24 As may be expected , most of the children attending school were the offspring of the more well-to-do traders and farmers , although exceptionally one or two daughters and sons of the labouring poor attended .
25 Participant observation usually refers to a situation where the observer becomes as near as may be a member of the group being studied and participates in their normal activities .
26 The duty to provide such public sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes of the Act , and to make such provision , by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise as may be necessary for effectually dealing with the contents of their sewers. ( s.14(1) )
27 The duty to provide such public sewers as may be necessary for effectually draining their district for the purposes of the Act , and to make such provision , by means of sewage disposal works or otherwise as may be necessary for effectually dealing with the contents of their sewers. ( s.14(1) )
28 A local authority , once satisfied that an odour amounts to a statutory nuisance is under a duty to serve an abatement notice in accordance with s.93 of the Public Health Act 1936 on the person whose act , default or sufferance gave rise to the nuisance or caused it to continue , requiring that person , in a specified time , usually two to six months , to abate the nuisance and to execute such remedial works and take such steps as may be necessary for that purpose .
29 That it be referred to the same Meeting to open a voluntary subscription to forward such means as may be thought most likely to promote the study of scientific Farriery … ’ .
30 It was resolved that ‘ the immediate objects of the Society are to establish a Fund by subscription , for collecting by premiums [ prizes ] well-authenticated facts relating to the diseases in horses , cows and sheep , their treatment and cure : — for establishing an extensive communication with foreign veterinary societies : — for the speedy and general circulation of such memoirs on the diseases of horses , cows and sheep as may be communicated to the Society ; — for providing an hospital for diseases in horses , cows and sheep : — and for promoting the science of Farriery by the regular education in it , on medical and anatomical principles ’ .
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