Example sentences of "[noun sg] may be say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners . |
| 2 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 3 | ‘ If by ‘ ability ’ we mean ‘ measured intelligence ’ and by ‘ opportunity ’ access to grammar schools , then opportunity may be said to stand in close relationship with ability in both these areas to-day . ’ |
| 4 | Our simple macroeconomy may be said to be in equilibrium when aggregate demand ( i.e. the total demand for final goods and services in the economy ) is equal to national income ( i.e. the total value of all final goods and services produced ) : this is often referred to as equilibrium in the goods market . |
| 5 | This leaves a wide range of activities in an area of unregulated uncertainty , including telephone tapping ; this may be official , under Ministerial approval ‘ in the national interest ’ , which Parliament may be said to have condoned or sanctioned , or it may be unofficial in the interests of , say , commercial or industrial espionage , in which case an offence is committed , if only the misappropriation of electric current ! |
| 6 | Thus , Members of Parliament may be said to occupy much the same position with respect to the nationalised industries as do shareholders with respect to a joint stock company . |
| 7 | ‘ The case may be said to be a good example of the stringency with which the courts scrutinise transactions of guarantee entered into at the instance of a debtor who is likely to be in a position to exert influence on the surety and in circumstances in which the surety can derive no conceivable benefit from the transaction . |
| 8 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 9 | True religion may be said to add to the spiritual a conscious relationship to the Source of the spiritual . |
| 10 | Each citizen may be said to have the right not to have sexual choices imposed on him or her ; whether the law should go further , and hold that each citizen has the right to pursue his or her sexual choices consensually with another ( subject to public-decency laws and to the protection of the young ) , is a question to be considered separately . |
| 11 | Enough is enough , the president may be saying in his book and on the screen . |
| 12 | Ideologically , a dynamic small firm sector may be said to reflect the opportunities capitalism offers to those prepared to display individual initiative , self-sacrifice and dedication to hard work . |
| 13 | Thus , a child may be said to acquire the rules of grammar , although it is difficult to see how such rules can be established as a result of numerous discrete learning experiences . |
| 14 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 15 | Even the solicitor and the author may be said to be employed — in the ‘ simple language … used and understood by ordinary literate men and women ’ — and if they are employed , their remuneration is surely earned ‘ in employment . ’ |
| 16 | And what is said of the resurrection may be said of other miracles . |
| 17 | In financial conglomerates a potential conflict may be said to exist where , for example , the conglomerate , when managing a client 's affairs , has to choose between two solutions for a deal where one choice is preferable from its own point of view while the other represents a better bargain for the client . |
| 18 | It is in this complicated sense that misogyny and homophobia once more interconnect , and otherness may be said to inhere within the same . |
| 19 | We need to hear what the Lord may be saying to us in all of this and be open to the challenge of church planting and the support of other fellowships around us . |
| 20 | The exhibition may be said to have motivated the adoption of Chinese art studies in western universities . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Despite the above advantages , the comparative approach may be said to have three main failings . |
| 23 | Co-operation with the West by the Soviet Union may be said to put the entire political structure of the Soviet Union in jeopardy because |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal held : [ a ] man may be said to know that goods are stolen when he is told by someone with first hand knowledge … that such is the case … |
| 26 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A traditional anecdote may be said to sum up the change that has taken place in our attitude . |
| 29 | Since Wilson 's teachings were a principal inspiration for the Morgan school , the twentieth century science of genetics may be said to have arisen within his Weismannist programme for the integration of evolutionary and cytological theorizing ( Mayr , 1982 ) . |
| 30 | It has been suggested that in certain circumstances a person who withholds unpublished price sensitive information may be said to have committed an offence under the subsection . |