Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Packer remarks that the greater willingness to join in collaboration against a consorting male may be related to the greater benefits that the altruism bestows on the recipient in these cases . |
| 2 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 3 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 4 | In the first instance , the certificate may be limited to the taking of counsel 's opinion and another application may have to be made to the Area Director to amend the certificate for further action if counsel 's opinion appears to warrant it . |
| 5 | Ortega 's office on Jan. 4 condemned the officers responsible and the provision of army weapons under any circumstances " to any guerrilla movement , regardless of how just its struggle may be considered to be " . |
| 6 | In many cases such user may be found to be tax-free because the taxpayer who uses the premises has not received " income " for the purposes of Schedule D , Case I and Case II . |
| 7 | This difficulty may be related to the fact that deductive markers are optional — they were frequently omitted by both children and adults in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 8 | The effect of increasing task difficulty may be confined to one hand or affect both hands . |
| 9 | In this respect the role of an auditor may be likened to that of a watchdog rather than a bloodhound . |
| 10 | Category ( e ) should also cater for the situation where a payment may be made to another insurer in accordance with current market practice as opposed to a specific agreement , e.g. a Travel insurer may seek partial reimbursement from us as Home insurers having dealt with a claim which is covered under both policies . |
| 11 | Payment may be made to the court office by postal order , banker 's or giro draft or cheques ( subject to clearance and the Chief Clerk 's consent ) . |
| 12 | Work in progress may be agreed to be brought in at less than its face value to reflect expenses incurred during the period between bill delivery and payment . |
| 13 | In many countries there is no legal recourse to defaults on gambling debts , and a futures contract may be considered to be a kind of gamble . |
| 14 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 15 | An employment contract may be brought to an end by the mutual consent of the parties . |
| 16 | A music publishing contract may be offered to a developing artist after they have signed to a record company . |
| 17 | The magnetic field may be confined to a certain part of space but the resulting electric field will pervade all space . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are two methods by which text may be input to a computer for the purpose of recognition . |
| 20 | This sentence may be added to the new one-year term . |
| 21 | From time to time a subtle change may be made to the details of the computation of the index . |
| 22 | They may feel particularly threatened , especially if they think that their power and responsibility may be given to the specialists involved directly with the technology . |
| 23 | Responsibility may be delegated to committees or indeed to officers , but the legal power to act remains with the council . |
| 24 | The use of ‘ I ’ in soliloquy may be compared to the use of ‘ here ’ in soliloquy . |
| 25 | The Three Peaks route may be followed to the summit from Ribblehead . |
| 26 | To cooperate may be defined as to work together or to operate jointly-These terms are therefore not dissimilar , yet co-ordination may be seen to be of a higher level and a more difficult operation than co-operation . |
| 27 | Co-ordination may be subcontracted to an organisation like Project Trident or to the DTI 's Education and Industry Advisers . |
| 28 | Whilst in the case of certain types of racked goods in which continuous fuel surfaces do not exist , automatic roof venting may be considered to be less essential , in the extreme case it is of great importance . |
| 29 | More than one strip may be attached to the column if the shielding needs to be extended in directions other than anteriorly of the column . |
| 30 | The rule is that any decision may be cited to a court provided that it is reported by a member of the Bar who was present when judgment was delivered . |