Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The section provides that a non-individual person may be granted a licence in its own name and that of the person responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises .
2 From the folk art section may be noted a collection of 25 weathervanes , including an 18th-century gilded and carved pine example from Portland , Maine ( est. $100,000–150,000 ; £51,500–77,300 ) .
3 If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee .
4 If you are arranging your mortgage via a mortgage broker and you do not choose an endowment-linked scheme , you may be charged a fee for his or her services .
5 Usually accompanied by a village or hamlet , such a caput may be called a villa regalis , but the terms aula , mansio and maerdref are also used .
6 The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new .
7 Lastly , I have tried to show tat the mechanical properties of many polymers may be described using the concepts and terminology of composites , so indicating the usefulness of what may be called a theory of materials .
8 For instance , Falmouth may be called a tourist resort , although it is also a shopping centre for local residents , and it has dockyards , a fishing industry and some light industry .
9 This may be called a chain reaction .
10 Conversely , a body may be styled a tribunal and yet be a court for present purposes .
11 However , in the case of the Runefangs , any Elector Count described below may automatically have one , and any other one character in the army may be given a Runefang as part of his normal magic item allowance .
12 Although unnecessary with S.pombe , in cases where there is uncertainty whether probe a is positive for clone c , the hybridisation event may be given a grey-level 0 < h ac < 1 , with 1 indicating a certain positive and 0 a certain negative .
13 He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige .
14 Thus in one field the U- figure may be given a value of 90 per cent as take up is known to be very strong , while in another it is given a value of 25 per cent since only 1 in 4 of such applicants is thought likely to accept .
15 Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent .
16 ‘ The building is locked at eleven o'clock each night , but anyone wishing to stay out later may be given a key .
17 In particular , emotional attachments may be given a justification which psychologically does not explain why the individual holds the attachments .
18 The former speaker , who will start his new duties during a lecture tour of America this summer , will start on a commission basis , but , if his efforts are successful , he may be offered a stake in a formal American venture .
19 If the disordered chromosome is detected , the woman may be offered a termination of the pregnancy .
20 A senior cataloguer who has brought in significant new business through proven negotiating skills may be offered a Deputy Directorship at £20–25,000 .
21 The client may be offered a number of options at the end of the session .
22 On these occasions you may be offered a job on the spot , so it is very important to have a good understanding of what you want and need from a job before you go .
23 Others may be offered a place on an in-house training course by one of the Compact firms .
24 A LIFESPAN database will typically consist of many hierarchical package structures and within these structures a module instance may be referenced a number of times .
25 It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him .
26 She may be allocated a group of learners , and follow them throughout their training .
27 His persecution may be accounted a cost of the Bolshevik dictatorship and the laws of totalitarianism .
28 This may be accounted a kind of progress and helps to assuage the liberal moral conscience .
29 It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others .
30 At many large computer centres they are literally costed in money ; or each user may be allotted a ration of time , measured in seconds , and a ration of space , measured in ‘ words ’ .
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