Example sentences of "may be [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing that may be noted is that the contrast between different parts of Fig. 21.18 provides immediate evidence for marked organization of the structures ( the point that was illustrated in the case of a wake by Fig. 21.9 ) . |
| 2 | A break with this doctrine was made by the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , now replaced by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , as amended in 1984 , and the present position is that the sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 3 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 4 | The procedure for seeking access to information and the circumstances in which it may be denied are discussed at Chapter 16 , 10 . |
| 5 | The first symptoms which may be felt are hot flushes , night sweats , general anxiety and irritability , loss of self-esteem , insomnia , mood changes , poor memory , loss of confidence , loss of interest in sex and even formication ( the feeling of insects crawling just underneath or on top of the skin , probably caused by changes in the nerve endings ) . |
| 6 | One vivid account of the means by which this may be achieved is set out in Ancrene Wisse , an early Middle English text written originally for particular sisters in the late twelfth century who wanted to live as recluses dedicated to God but later adopted more widely in other such communities . |
| 7 | Some of the ways in which this may be achieved are shown in table 7.1 . |
| 8 | Since the formal procedures of the law are used so rarely , the number of legal samples or prosecutions in which an officer may be involved are never taken as a sign of competence . |
| 9 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 10 | One way in which the terms of competition in the single market may be affected is by granting state subsidies which favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods in such a way as to affect inter-state trade . |
| 11 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 12 | Another way that firms may be characterised is by their use of research consultants . |
| 13 | ‘ The day we hold off because some geezer may be watching is the day we should change our line of business . |
| 14 | The taxa in which organisms may be placed are recognised by international agreement , and the chief ones are : Kingdom , Phylum , Class , Order , Family , Genus and Species . |
| 15 | Where the matter is one of European Community law the ultimate court to which an appeal may be made is the European Court . |
| 16 | Unlike the power to impose conditions on processions , the grounds upon which a ban may be sought are still restricted to those of serious public disorder which the senior police officer believes that he will be unable to prevent , even taking into account the imposition of conditions under section 12 . |
| 17 | The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it . |
| 18 | The most important route by which authorization may be had is through membership of an SRO . |
| 19 | The types of work for which grants may be given are : the provision of a damp-proofing course , dealing with dry or wet rot , repairs or renewal of faulty floors , ceilings or roof , installing a hot and cold water supply , adding or installing a bathroom if one does not exist in the house , installing an inside lavatory with proper drainage , extending a very small kitchen , improving the heating system ( with in some cases a grant towards the cost of installing central heating ) , and roof insulation . |
| 20 | Three-mode lasers , especially in folded resonators , are probably more complicated than theorists would wish , but the class of lasers in which chaos of this type may be observed is probably very large , and such experiments may well prove useful in testing the universality of the " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 21 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 22 | All that may be written is one short story , the final one of the genre , the cork in the bottle . |
| 23 | The reason for discussing the availability of judicial review before discussing the grounds on which decision may be reviewed is because the law of judicial review is more ‘ remedies-oriented ’ than private law . |
| 24 | As well as workplace organisation , a further level at which cross-national comparisons may be directed is the ‘ internal ’ government of trade unions and the extent of democratic control by their membership , as opposed to oligarchic domination by the leadership , since unions are formally democratic institutions . |
| 25 | The majority of African departments adopt these curricular policies and materials directly ; any changes which may be effected are of a minor quantitative nature . |
| 26 | Messages which may be reported are as follows : |
| 27 | Errors which may be reported are described in Appendix B. |
| 28 | The only site other than the ano-genital region where they may be found is in the mouth and , when there , they have usually been acquired sexually . |
| 29 | The decisions which may be appealed are a refusal to grant , renew , transfer or provisionally grant a licence ( s. 17(4) ) , the right of appeal being conferred on the applicant , a grant of a new licence , or a grant of a renewal , permanent transfer , or provisional grant of a licence ( s. 17(5) ) , the right of appeal being restricted to competent objectors who appeared at the hearing of the application . |
| 30 | One of the ways in which the seemingly enormous differences between the ideas of Skinner and Chomsky may be reconciled is to recognise that , to a great extent , they were interested in quite different aspects of language . |