Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This polarity of views may be represented in terms of the differential propensities sr and sw . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the question of what amounts to ‘ serious deterioration ’ , it is clear that differing views may be reached . |
| 4 | Similarly , the adoption of a common policy for the new firm will be essential : modification or even abandonment of formerly held views may be required . |
| 5 | Such views may be held alongside others in varying combinations . |
| 6 | Other illustrations may be incorporated in the text and are often called ‘ cuts ’ or ‘ figures ’ . |
| 7 | Two simple illustrations may be given . |
| 8 | We have some knowledge of these processes in cases such as proxemics , where our spatial orientation to objects may be observed as both cultural and normative ( Hall 1966 ) . |
| 9 | In this way , the stylized clay objects may be seen as early forerunners of the more recognizable goddess-idols of the Late Minoan period . |
| 10 | The Companies Act 1989 attempts to remove the need for these lengthy clauses by providing that a company 's objects may be stated in any manner . |
| 11 | Introductory handling sessions followed by work in the galleries generally allow pupils to get far more benefit from a museum visit than use of the exhibition galleries alone , where objects may be displayed behind glass . |
| 12 | The first manner in which objects may be related to each other is as type-tokens . |
| 13 | Among the Kwakiutl , discussed above , all objects may be related through a style expressive of an orality in which humankind achieves significance by its place in a universal cycle of devouring and reproduction ( Walens 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Here individual objects may be created and used as the basis of a repeating pattern . |
| 15 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 16 | Some common , fairly recent objects may be brought into school by pupils , or may be fairly easily acquired from junk shops , or as loans from parents or the elderly , although prices are rising even for twentieth-century objects . |
| 17 | Common objects , a marble or pebble , a shell or a shiny conker can be part of a nature table collection and more unusual objects may be borrowed from museums . |
| 18 | The specific objectification of a moral and juridical individual through the use of objects may be found in a wide range of societies , including those where kinship rather than the economy appears to be the dominant organizational principle . |
| 19 | As mass consumption , a particular array of objects may be found to represent and assist in the construction of perspectives relating to control over production or rivalry between consumers , but also to wider issues concerning morality and social ideals . |
| 20 | A tile of lecturers may be stored in ‘ lecturer number ’ or ‘ lecturer name ’ sequence . |
| 21 | Similarly , contracts may be concluded on consistent terms at a number of outlets , over a period of time , and despite changes in personnel . |
| 22 | However , this ability to mimic financial contracts may be extended to all such using calls , puts , shares and riskfree debentures . |
| 23 | As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) . |
| 24 | If a change in control occurs employment contracts may be terminated , with the result that employees lose the gains from firm-specific training . |
| 25 | In selecting a new class of options the clearing house attempts to ensure that at all times contracts may be exercised without any undue influence on the share market itself . |
| 26 | Contracts may be developed with hospitals further afield , but few patients would choose to enter a hospital far from home . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Such contract or contracts may be varied if , and only if , the rules so provide , by a majority of the members or by a specified majority . |
| 29 | The success of the traded option is due to the existence of a regulated secondary market in which contracts may be bought and sold and positions opened and closed without the need to enter the securities market . |
| 30 | In America , obscenity law protects the reader or viewer against harms he may inflict on himself , by whatever process those harms may be inflicted . |