Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | External views may be presented to the user through the use of host language programs or a query language but they may also be obtained through a dialogue , which approaches a natural language dialogue , or via a menu . |
| 2 | Other illustrations may be incorporated in the text and are often called ‘ cuts ’ or ‘ figures ’ . |
| 3 | A fuller treatment of the principles applicable to the interpretation of contracts may be found in The Interpretation of Contracts ( Sweet and Maxwell , 1989 ) by the author . |
| 4 | Eye-witnesses claim it dives beneath the surface of Loch Argyll , and its footprints may be seen on the muddy shore each dawn . |
| 5 | Expert skills may be related to the tangible , like bookbinding or open-heart surgery , or the more intangible , like negotiation or ability to analyse . |
| 6 | Otherwise , mature profitable products may be loaded with the costs of new product development and closed down too quickly . |
| 7 | These cases may be discounted for the present purpose , which is not to see what lay people believed or imagined about the law , but what distinctions and doctrines the jurists who developed it were employing . |
| 8 | These reactions may be terminated by the interaction with another radical or with one of the ‘ chain-breaking antioxidant molecules ’ ( such as vitamin E ) , or by one of the enzymatic antioxidant defences ( for example superoxide dismutase , catalase , or glutathione peroxidase ) . |
| 9 | Such notes may be included in the accounts or in separate documents annexed thereto . |
| 10 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 11 | According to the position of the court in the hierarchy other courts may be bound by the ratio of the case or may be in a position to overrule or amend it . |
| 12 | A reflection of clerical involvement in the world of the courts may be glimpsed in the large stained-glass window given to York Minster by Master Peter de Dene , king 's clerk , probably between 1307 and 1310 ( see plate 2.6 ) . |
| 13 | Haslam paints the picture of a corporate impresario who recognises the various talents and skills of those around him and orchestrates events so that these talents may be used to the greatest benefit of the enterprise . |
| 14 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 15 | Taxes may be grouped by the administrative arrangement for their collection . |
| 16 | The following keywords may be used in the RDBI configuration file : |
| 17 | Nomination forms may be obtained from the secretary general at the RSC , Burlington House , Piccadilly , London and the vacancy for which the form is required should be indicated . |
| 18 | If you do not already hold a valid passport , application forms may be obtained from the Post Office . |
| 19 | Forms may be obtained from the court and from the usual legal stationers . |
| 20 | In particular these transformations may be applied to the potentials for the metric functions that will be described in Section 12.4 . |
| 21 | The combination of the narrator 's voice with features associated with the characters ' thought patterns may be compared to the use of free indirect thought in fictions in which the " voices ' of narrator and characters are blended , sometimes almost inextricably . |
| 22 | In many societies , especially those in which healthy childspacing patterns have been traditional , the will to regulate fertility — at least by spacing — exists , and these patterns may be supported through the provision of modern means of family planning , the spread of relevant information , acceptance of its validity and its correct application . |
| 23 | Impressions and patterns may be made in the wet sand , either by hand or with the tools available . |
| 24 | Finally , there are ‘ authority constraints ’ ; for example , free school transport may not be available to children living within a certain distance of school ; or opening hours may be mis-matched with the timings of public transport , rendering the services effectively inaccessible to users dependent on public transport . |
| 25 | These improvements may be attributed to the adjustments , described in Chapter 6 , which BRAC had made to its standard lobon-gur message as a result of the 1984 observations . |
| 26 | Copies may be obtained from the Trust at Langholm , Dumfriesshire DG13 0HL or from the HFRO at Bush Estate , Penicuik , Midlothian EH26 0PY , UK . |
| 27 | Copies may be obtained from the Christian Conference of Asia , Communication , 4/F 57 Peking Road , Kowloon , Hong Kong . |
| 28 | rigidly enforced cycles of daily , weekly , and monthly back-up copying of documents , so that old copies may be retrieved in the event of complete failure of the text processing system . |
| 29 | Further copies may be held at the local public library . |
| 30 | During this time various encoding operations may be performed upon the stored information which enables some representation of the stimulus to be held in a short term memory store , after which it either drops out or is transferred into some other more durable store . |