Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Structuralism may be employed to excavate the principles of classification and order which unite what on the surface appear as highly disparate domains , so that for a particular society food preparation , kinship and myth may be revealed as transformations of each other . |
| 2 | Such searches may be undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategic review or in order to assist a client in implementing an agreed acquisition strategy . |
| 3 | Providing patients with information on admission to hospital and throughout their stay may be acknowledged as an important part of nursing but frequently , discharge is a very rushed affair . |
| 4 | Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) . |
| 5 | For example , some words may be concatenated , such that certain sounds are omitted , e.g. ’ go away ’ may be pronounced as ’ go way ’ . |
| 6 | Similarly , adjacent sounds may be modified to sound more like each other , e.g. ’ gone back ’ may be pronounced as ’ gom back ’ . |
| 7 | However , voluntary medical examinations may be conducted as part of an occupational health programme . |
| 8 | Such phrases as ‘ loss of temper ’ or ‘ heat of passion ’ are treated as useful synonyms , for which angry or apparently uncontrolled reactions may be treated as evidence . |
| 9 | There is , however , another dimension to the debate , and this appears from the CLRC 's view that , where reckless driving causes death , this should not affect the label of the offence but may be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing in appropriate cases . |
| 10 | Part 1 deals with the fundamentals , and begins by explaining how polymer molecules may be treated as spring-bead chains in which the molecules are treated as a sequence of spring-like beads . |
| 11 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 12 | If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest . |
| 13 | We may note , however , that while a complex matrix A = B + iC ( B , C real ) may be treated as such , using complex arithmetic , it is more usual to treat its real equivalent unc which ( see Theorem XI , 1.22 ) yields the eigenvalues and vectors of A and its conjugate . |
| 14 | This suggests that predictable letter sequences may be treated as words even in the absence of semantic information . ) |
| 15 | Pottery , for example , may be treated as art , science or technology , and within a discipline oriented scheme the opportunity will probably exist to classify pottery in at least any one of these three disciplines . |
| 16 | The ‘ offer ’ probability may be treated as the product of ( i ) the probability that a vacancy will come to the individual 's notice and ( ii ) the probability that the individual , if available , will be ‘ offered ’ the job . |
| 17 | At one level , the spectrum as a whole may be treated as a fingerprint , which can be used simply to recognize the product of some reaction as a known compound . |
| 18 | The tax treatment of discounted debentures is very complex but in many cases the " discount " may be treated as a deduction when computing the profits of a company which reduces the cost of the discount to a company . |
| 19 | The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital . |
| 20 | However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor . |
| 21 | If the option to renew is included in the terms of the new lease , the lease may be treated as a perpetually renewable lease taking effect as a term of two thousand years ( Parkus v Greenwood [ 1950 ] Ch 644 ; Caerphilly Concrete Products Ltd v Owen [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 372 ; Law of Property Act 1922 , s145 and Sched 15 ) . |
| 22 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 23 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy . |
| 25 | Plant pieces are not actively used in the construction of the nest , but they may be employed as an anchor , or in the case of broad leaf plants that reach the surface , as a site for the whole nest . |
| 26 | A member who is dismissed under this Article may be reinstated as a member on payment of all arrears of his subscription due at the time of his dismissal , and also any appropriate admission fee which may be decided by the Council . |
| 27 | They may be summarised as a revolt against the normal . |
| 28 | With Equity Capital , where larger amounts of finance are normally involved , the proportion of the ordinary equity will usually by 15–40% and a member of Barclays Development Capital Ltd. or the Barclays Baronsmead Fund may be appointed as a non-executive director . |
| 29 | Solicitors and barristers may be appointed as Recorders or stipendiary magistrates . |
| 30 | A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge . |