Example sentences of "but it may be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , legal aid is not available for libel , but it may be granted for malicious falsehood . |
| 2 | It is impossible here to enter into the details of this controversy , but it may be noticed that |
| 3 | If a rule is good in some circumstances and bad in others , it will sometimes be missed when it should be used if its weight is low ; but it may be mis-applied if its weight is high . |
| 4 | But it may be observed that the general movement of culture offers little support to anyone who would pin his hopes for the future of man as a spiritual being on this kind of natural religion . |
| 5 | This is usually about 18 days after infection , but it may be delayed for several months when arrested larval development occurs . |
| 6 | But it may be argued that ‘ conduct ’ includes the circumstances in which the conduct takes place , including such matters as the time of day or night in addition to the ferocity of the attack . |
| 7 | Mr Harold Macmillan was admittedly fortified by an informal poll of Conservative members and notables , but it may be argued that he should not have been the sole fountainhead of advice , if it is indeed a constitutional principle that a retiring Prime Minister has no special title or status to advise on the choice of his successor . |
| 8 | Motivation is the subject of an earlier chapter of this text , but it may be summarised briefly as the process which determines how much effort , energy and excitement a person is prepared to expend in his work . |
| 9 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |
| 10 | The decision is controversial in its reasoning , but it may be explained as an attempt by the judiciary to improve the workability of an ageing legal structure . |
| 11 | The speechreader may grasp the meaning quickly but it may be received as bare fact , unadorned and unsoftened by excuses , explanations or reasons . |
| 12 | The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals . |
| 13 | The mental element with respect to unlawfulness remains to be determined , but it may be assumed after Morgan that it would be intention or recklessness . |
| 14 | It is not something which presents too much of a problem , but it may be causing damage in the long term . |
| 15 | ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) . |
| 16 | The plaintiff is prima facie entitled to the injunction but it may be refused where the interference is trivial . |
| 17 | But it may be doubted whether he necessarily commits an offence under section 4 should he fail to do so . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that the major elements in either of these groups will actually change sides , but it may be threatening to the parties if they are lukewarm in their support . |
| 19 | That may be so , but it may be suggested that as much depends on the surrounding legal rules as on the mandatory penalty . |
| 20 | Examples are not provided but it may be suggested that a refusal by Scrooge 's wife to have sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping were raised would fall within it . |
| 21 | ( 11.30 ) In Section 10.2 it has been argued that this solution must be considered to be unphysical on its own , but it may be included as a factor in more general solutions . |
| 22 | There is a statutory provision about the position of arbitrators : under s1 of the Arbitration Act 1950 , the authority of an arbitrator is said to be irrevocable , but it may be revoked with leave of the court . |
| 23 | if the planning if if the requirements fall much below the demographic requirements , the implication is that migration could be controlled but it may be controlled by a mechanism which I do n't think anybody really wants and that 's by stimulating out migration in North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | For this exercise , a script plus storyboard may be sufficient , but it may be found more desirable to produce an ‘ animatic ’ . |
| 25 | Digestion is not frequent ( 5–13 per cent ) , but it may be distributed over the whole enamel surface , where it appears as slight to moderate pitting ( Fig. 3.22 D , E ) . |
| 26 | Often , the usual guidelines still apply , but it may be reassuring to highlight and comment on a few of the special situations in which some parents are placed . |
| 27 | But it may be taken for granted that nowadays the ‘ moral majority ’ is not a real ( electoral ) majority , just as a ‘ moral victory ’ ( the traditional euphemism for defeat ) is not a real victory . |
| 28 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 29 | No plant matter is actively used in the construction of the nest , but it may be used indirectly to anchor the nest and stop it from floating away . |
| 30 | Management system dynamics is mainly concerned with the time-varying behaviour of processes or systems , but it may be used to carry out modelling and investigation under any of the four OR categories described in section ( 5.1 ) above . |