Example sentences of "[n mass] may be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of income at which SB is received is widely accepted as a crude and basic measure of the ‘ poverty line ’ , that point below which people may be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ . |
| 2 | It admits that people may be driven to vice by desperation or cruel social circumstances . |
| 3 | PEOPLE may be flocking to the sales — not because the recession is ending but because they are seeing the most realistic prices in years . |
| 4 | ‘ People may be devoted to us and we 're not so devoted to them . |
| 5 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 6 | While people may be held to be responsible for an action they may not always be asked to account for it . |
| 7 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 8 | This contrasts strongly with higher education in the USA where institutional ‘ mission statements ’ are regarded as selling points , and key senior administrative staff may be hired to further achievement of specific goals ; and fired for demonstrably not doing so . |
| 9 | The means may be likened to a seed , the end to a tree ; and there is just the same inviolable connexion between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree … |
| 10 | Such ways and means may be resorted to because the real thing is unavailable , or too expensive , difficult or dangerous . |