Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [be] [vb pp] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I may be told that this is an academic quibble since our democratic politicians know what is of constitutional significance in our way of government , approach such matters differently from other reforms , and are politically if not legally constrained .
2 From the production of these budgets it may be felt that certain aspects of the budgets need to be amended before they become operational .
3 It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most .
4 In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific .
5 It may be decided that different restrictions should be applied to different partners , particularly in relation to area restraints .
6 Omitting the voltmeter from our circuit , so that a current can How in the resistive wire , it may be seen that some of the current will be forced through the wire hence the device works as a generator .
7 From the active research fields and interests of members of the academic staff , listed below , it may be seen that social , historical , urban , political , economic , quantitative and applied aspects reflect current emphases in Human Geography , whilst in Physical Geography studies of Karst , Quaternary environments , sedimentology , hydrology and palaeolimnology and the arid zone are among principal fields of research .
8 ( 11.5 ) With this , the line element ( 11.4 ) can be written in the form ( 11.6 ) and the two main equations ( 6.22d , e ) can be written as the single complex equation ( 11.7 ) It may be seen that this is in fact Ernst 's equation , which can be written in the coordinate-invariant form ( 11.8 ) where is the square of the gradient of an arbitrary scalar field which , in this case , is a function of the two ( null ) coordinates only .
9 ( It may be noted that equitable rights may themselves form the subject of a trust .
10 Concerning the usefulness of the three techniques , it may be noted that all suffer from the necessity for hand-labelling of concordances , which remains a task of considerable size .
11 It may be noted that socio-economic conditions of parents ( as assessed by the father 's or the breadwinner 's occupation ) also play a role in the incidence of low birth weight ; it is the highest among the offspring of non-agricultural manual workers , lower among those whose father works in agriculture and lowest in the non-manual workers ' stratum .
12 It may be noted that some modern authorities denote by MA and MP the two main branches of the posterior media , while Cu1 and Cu2 are sometimes known as CuA and CuP respectively .
13 It may be noted that this property is also shared by the combination of terms that are contained in ( 10.16 ) .
14 It may be noted that this area is supported by the ESPRIT 11 programme .
15 As a rough indicator of the location of market making , it may be noted that 73 out of 97 dealers reporting prices daily or weekly to ISMA in September 1990 were located in London .
16 It may be noted that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) .
17 It may be noted that these solutions are continuous on the boundaries between the subregions A and B. Also , the terms involving the Legendre functions of the first kind are regular on the focusing hypersurface , while those involving the Legendre functions of the second kind are singular on this surface .
18 They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples .
19 As anticipated in the discussion in Section 7.2 , it may be observed that this expression contains the necessary multiples of and that are required to cancel the effects of the unbounded term on the boundary .
20 When evaluating expressions for the Weyl tensor , it is convenient to use the coordinates and defined by ( 10.10 ) ( it may be noticed that these differ from those used by Ferrari and Ibañez ) .
21 It may be conceded that these cases do not put the point beyond argument , although they clearly point towards non-liability in the assignee .
22 Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master .
23 As Chapman observed : ‘ Although I do not suggest that the Arsenal go on the defensive even for tactical purposes , I think it may be said that some of their best scoring chances have come when they have been driven back and then have broken away to strike suddenly and swiftly . ’
24 It may be said that these facts are materially different from those in our problem , for in our problem there seems to be no choice as to who is to die : it is simply ( one supposes ) a question of some or all .
25 It may be said that these are superficial impressions derived from a superficial knowledge of small parts of the stratigraphical record .
26 In trying to summarise these findings , it may be said that linguistic knowledge does appear to be the important variable .
27 It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral .
28 It may be said that this is not imagining the activity of a postman at all .
29 It may be said that this is tyranny .
30 I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored .
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