Example sentences of "[pron] may be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also expected that the existence of such a database will help the researcher to identify policy-relevant research and those areas which may be receiving insufficient attention . |
| 2 | The languages offered are French ( post ‘ A ’ level ) , Spanish ( post ‘ A ’ level ) and German ( which may be taken either post ‘ A ’ level or ab initio ) . |
| 3 | Now there 's one thing that I have to alert us all to the rest may not have been important , perhaps only to some of the larger churches but groups are advised and churches are advised to make sure that in buildings that are used ah , for many different groups that young children under the age of eight do not come into contact with any casual people who may be using that building . |
| 4 | However , the Department ( of Education and Science ) had little information about the working of the Act in this phase of education and offered no information about the numbers of children who may be receiving special education under the age of five nor of the number of children who might be the subject of statements below school age . |
| 5 | Introduce the visitors to any parents who may be doing voluntary work in the school , give the parent helpers opportunity to talk about their perceptions of the school . |
| 6 | You may be reading this newsletter as someone the Regional Council has consulted in its efforts to identify the options for reform in Lothian . |
| 7 | You may be expecting some kind of platform game with bouncing mushrooms but instead you need a fair bit of brain power too ! |
| 8 | You may be granted Legal Aid subject to the payment of a financial contribution , usually payable by instalments . |
| 9 | I know but er that 's what I mean , we get all the , a lot of them , about four of them topics worth , we 're being given the equivalent of one of the topics you may be do next year you know . |
| 10 | ‘ You may be running this firm while my father 's in hospital and my uncle 's in limbo , ’ she said tightly , ‘ but your position is purely a temporary one . |
| 11 | If your eyes are always on your party political opponent , or ministerial colleague and rival , you may be paying less attention than you ought to what Hollywood , IBM and Fujitsu are doing . |
| 12 | ‘ For the first time since the start of the recession , ’ said Mr Hayward we may be seeing some glimmer of light , particularly as the figures tie in with the slight decrease in receiverships this quarter and with recent reports of an increase in business optimism . |
| 13 | Indeed , a single success if it is too costly in terms of time , commitment , motivation or any other resource , may be at the expense of future changes — and we may be seeing some evidence of this at the moment in terms of the reactive stance of large parts of the service . |
| 14 | This may be particularly important in service industries where there may be limited net asset backing . |
| 15 | There may be marked nervous excitement and prostration . |
| 16 | Well thing is people are moving to an area they may be given some information by their company but |
| 17 | For example , they may be using one terminal to access DEC VAX applications and another one for IBM mainframe applications and yet another for graphics or text . |
| 18 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 19 | The more senior the employee the harder it may be to define clear performance standards . |
| 20 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
| 21 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
| 22 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 23 | In some ways it may be considered that psychology has gone too far . |
| 24 | There is a danger , if this is done , that it may be forgotten that pottery is not only a fascinating subject in its own right , but that it offers vital dating evidence for the chronology of the site , and the key sherds must appear in the body of the main report , with similar critical evidence . |
| 25 | It may be doubted that memory mechanisms form the sole basis of these effects , however , given that formally equivalent conditional discriminations using rats as the subjects have regularly found a DOE using a procedure which makes no demand on memory because the conditional cue remains present until the choice response is made . |
| 26 | It may be suggested that competition in provision of market analysis and in research and development has also been aimed at increasing market share and discouraging entry . |
| 27 | But here 's a disturbing thing : it may be having some effect . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 29 | HE MAY BE GONE SOME TIME |
| 30 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |