Example sentences of "it may [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The more senior the employee the harder it may be to define clear performance standards . |
3 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
4 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
5 | The landlord is usually the party who settles the form of the lease ( albeit it may be amended many times before execution ) and most of the covenants are inserted for his protection . |
6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
7 | In some ways it may be considered that psychology has gone too far . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | When the hay is fit to cart , bale , or tripod ( and only experience can tell you when it is ‘ singing ’ ) it may be raked two rows into one ( and possibly four into one ) . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Erm , medium status it may go up to more like five minutes , very high status it may be approaching ten minutes , okay ? |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This is by no means the end of the matter , because the Council still intends to pursue its objectives by other means , but it certainly seems to indicate that it may be having second thoughts about the project 's viability and/or its acceptability . |
14 | But here 's a disturbing thing : it may be having some effect . |
15 | 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 . |