Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since aspects of each can be understood better in the light of their absence , each may be noticed more when it is not there than when it is . |
| 2 | We have seen how the vibration frequencies may be observed and how each may be allocated to a particular symmetry species . |
| 3 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 4 | We will now consider how pivoting may be carried out in the framework we have outlined . |
| 5 | Some will want to monopolise each week with their own problems and again this can abuse the group : a word in private may be needed , or careful leadership in the group . |
| 6 | That would be particularly inappropriate having regard to the considerable number of instances which exist of Parliament having legislated in various fields to define the circumstances under which payments of tax not lawfully due may be recovered , and also in what situations and upon what terms interest on overpayments of tax may be paid . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) The licensing board , if in its opinion any objection to the renewal of a licence is frivolous or vexatious , may find the objector liable in the expenses caused by such objection to such extent as the board thinks fit , or , if in its Opinion any such objection is unauthorised , may find the agent of the objector liable in the expenses as aforesaid ; and the amount of any expenses so found due may be recovered in the sheriff court having jurisdiction , and a certified copy of the finding of the licensing board shall be sufficient evidence and authority for discerning for the said amount with expenses . |
| 8 | When acting on an acquisition , MAS may be asked by the prospective vendors to sign a confidentiality agreement . |
| 9 | MAS may be asked to contact potential acquisition candidates already identified by a client . |
| 10 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 11 | Therefore , I ask for brief questions , please , to the Chancellor of the Exchequer so that as many hon. Members as possible may be called . |
| 12 | That may be achieved either by retaining formal verification notes or simply by retaining the source material from which the document was produced ( or indications of where that information was derived from ) . |
| 13 | Your are responsible for any charges , fines etc. that may be levied by authorities in the U.K. or overseas for noncompliance of regulations in this area and any such amounts will be recharged to you . |
| 14 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 15 | ‘ But that is no problem , that may be arranged . |
| 16 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 17 | Or w w shall we say that may be said with a bit of a tongue in cheek ? |
| 18 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 19 | The only thing one would say though whilst agreeing with some of the , the matters perhaps that may be aired have a bearing on the other matters in the agenda . |
| 20 | That may be challenged by the nation states in the European Court , but , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary conceded this afternoon , that court has usually reflected integrationist tendencies . |
| 21 | That may be expressed in simple terms , but it is the reality . |
| 22 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |
| 23 | Not only that but motivation can be expressed in terms of self-interest , however that may be perceived , and in terms of serving organisational interests . |
| 24 | That may be followed by a health and fitness check on new employees . |
| 25 | All that may be written is one short story , the final one of the genre , the cork in the bottle . |
| 26 | That may be affected by the prevailing wind and we 'll have to find a suitable launching site . |
| 27 | It is of course possible that structures of the second kind , the equivalences of category , can be found in equal quantity in non-poetic language ; all that may be required , it has been argued ( Culler 1975 : 62 ) is a sufficiently flexible system of categorization . |
| 28 | While it is true that we have until now been concerned with consciousness , and used the term " mental events " in the ordinary way so as not to include all that may be included in the mental , the rest of the subject-matter of that domain is not thereby excluded from our coming reflections . |
| 29 | It helped us to derive Biot-Savart 's law , it will come handy later in solving certain radiation problems , and it often leads to nice formulae , e.g. for the magnetic flux crossing a surface , defined as unc that may be rewritten in terms of the vector potential as follows : unc where C is the curve enclosing the surface . |
| 30 | All that may be needed is a classification of machines and a measurement of time spent on each machine by each product . |