Example sentences of "may be [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finality makes it proper to regard death as the most serious harm that may be inflicted on another , and to regard a person who chooses to inflict that harm as the most culpable of offenders , in the absence of some excuse or justification . |
| 2 | Legal Aid in England , due to the difference in rules of evidence , may be granted on little more than an ex parte statement by the applicant . |
| 3 | Exemptions may be granted on specified grounds with respect to a particular " class of goods " ( Resale Prices Act 1976 , ss14-21 ) . |
| 4 | An arrestable offence is : ( 1 ) an offence for which the sentence is fixed by law ( murder , treason ) ; ( 2 ) an offence for which a person of 21 or over may be sentenced on first conviction to imprisonment for a term of five years ( This covers common law and statutory offences ) ; ( 3 ) those offences listed in section 24(2) , e.g. Theft Act 1968 ( ss. 12(I) and 25(1) ) ; Sexual Offences Act 1956 ( ss.14 , 22 and 23 ) ) . |
| 5 | The copy application may be served on each respondent personally or delivered or sent by first-class post to his residence or last known residence ( FPCR , r8(1) ; FPR , r4.8(1) ) . |
| 6 | Duty free goods will be available for purchase though the choice may be limited on certain flights . |
| 7 | Since managers may be assessed on short term profitability , heavy investment in R & D may adversely affect their rating ; a second worry is that firms which invest heavily in R & D may be ‘ undervalued ’ by financial institutions . |
| 8 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 9 | Controls may be imposed on international trade for a number of different reasons . |
| 10 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 11 | Entries are freeform in that the cursor may be placed on any field in order to bypass unrequired fields . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him . |
| 13 | A number of comments may be made on this provision . |
| 14 | Youth clubs may be organized on authoritarian or democratic lines to see how the members enjoy different forms of leadership . |
| 15 | Non-consultation may be justified on one or more of these grounds , but only in unusual circumstances . |
| 16 | In some such cases specific protection , in the form of import controls , subsidies or state purchasing , may be justified on socialist grounds , for instance if the industry is a struggling ‘ infant ’ with good future prospects ( ‘ good ’ , that is , in respect of the efficient satisfaction of social need ) , or even a struggling ‘ geriatric ’ which stands a good chance of reviving its fortunes through a thorough re-investment programme . |
| 17 | The downgradings in the sector may be justified on some housebuilders , but others look severely undervalued at current levels . |
| 18 | The amounts are variable and may be debited on various dates but NIP Ltd may only change the amounts and dates after giving me prior notice . |
| 19 | Contrariwise , one may be able to vote provided that one is in fact registered even though one was not entitled to be registered — the register , when published , is conclusive ( ibid , s.49 ) once notice of an election has been given , although it may be amended on specified grounds prior to that date ( ibid , s.11 ) . |
| 20 | The research team , based in the LSE library , may be contacted on 071 955 7221 . |
| 21 | Favourable rates for Central Services employees may be obtained on private insurance policies e.g. household , travel , private motoring etc . |
| 22 | Since the crucial period of pasture contamination with O. ostertagi eggs is the period up to mid-July , one of the efficient modern anthelmintics may be given on two or three occasions between turn-out in the spring and July to minimise the numbers of eggs deposited on the pasture . |
| 23 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 24 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 25 | An application may be based on actual or likely harm to the child . |
| 26 | Clusters may be based on geographical variables such as : county , city , district or parish boundaries . |
| 27 | This may be used at a variety of levels of sophistication and economic generality , thus : 5.3 i ) Models at company level may be based on econometric equations for instance to analyse the relationship between price and demand , perhaps using the model . |
| 28 | In addition such strategical decisions may be based on episodic memories for particular instances of driving the planned route , for example , the memory that you encountered road works at a particular junction recently and that it should thus be avoided until they have been completed . |
| 29 | using microviewdata/viewdata to compile , synthesize ( and therefore re-create ) in-house databases , which may be based on original research or other forms of information , including information from viewdata sources . |
| 30 | Statuses are culturally defined , despite the fact that they may be based on biological factors such as sex or race . |