Example sentences of "it may [be] suggested " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be so , but it may be suggested that as much depends on the surrounding legal rules as on the mandatory penalty . |
| 2 | Relating support proportionately to the severity of handicap , it may be suggested , is a nonsense in agricultural terms but the object of the LFA Directive is to stern rural depopulation and conserve the countryside by supporting farming . |
| 3 | It may be suggested that John could be asked what he means by ‘ interfering ’ . |
| 4 | It may be suggested that there is an element of rejection in being referred . |
| 5 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
| 6 | Alternatively it may be suggested that the metal alloys from which the bracteates and their loops were made need not always be from the same source . |
| 7 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 8 | It has to be seen , it may be suggested , as an aspect of the effort to control these age-groups . |
| 9 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 10 | Generally , it may be suggested that a financial background is useful . |
| 11 | It may be suggested , then , that the shifting perspectives , as instruments zoom into the foreground , then out again , together with the relative lack of fore grounding of the voice , signify the dislocation of the individual 's dominant position and of the single point of view . |
| 12 | I understand , however , that it may be suggested that the Bank issued the notice not because it required the documents for the performance of its functions under the Act but simply to provide a conduit for information to the Board and without regard to the Bank 's own functions . |
| 13 | Readers must be warned that it has been the practice of governments in recent years to alter the departmental structure from time to time , ostensibly in an effort to find the best possible framework for policy co-ordination , but — it may be suggested — with less elevated political motives in mind too . |
| 14 | It may be suggested that what the Child Poverty Action Group expected , and wanted , was a new Labour government returned to power , chastened by criticism of its family policies , and not a Conservative government . |
| 15 | Examples are not provided but it may be suggested that a refusal by Scrooge 's wife to have sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping were raised would fall within it . |
| 16 | Indeed , it may be suggested that the substantive issue of subsidiarity will be essentially non-justiciable , as the present author has suggested to the House of Lords . |
| 17 | Whatever the future of the Maastricht Treaty itself , it may be suggested that certain of its aims may be achieved by other legal means , or by extra-Community arrangements between certain Member States . |
| 18 | It may be suggested that the window frame or complete door has to be replaced due to damage to the double glazing unit . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It may be suggested that to limit compensation in the way proposed will work unfairly in certain cases . |
| 21 | ‘ It may be suggested to customers that flour bags which can be washed and used again are better for this purpose than odd bits of paper , although an actual container is best of all . |