Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An assignment may be defined as a mini project or as any problem solving exercise with clear guidelines and of specified length . |
| 7 | a budget may be defined as a quantitative and financial plan of the activity to be pursued during the financial year to achieve that year 's objectives . |
| 8 | A social class may be defined as a psychological-social grouping , within which social , economic , educational and political interests tend to coincide . |
| 9 | It may be defined as a constitutive process for the development of some subject in and through the medium of culture , which is the form taken by all social productions . |
| 10 | A eurobond may be defined as an international bond issue underwritten by an international syndicate of banks , and sold principally in countries other than that of the currency of denomination . |
| 11 | In the words of Dirac a state of motion of a system may be defined as an undisturbed motion that is restricted by as many conditions or data as are theoretically possible without mutual interference or contradiction . |
| 12 | It may be defined as the complex body of shared values and beliefs of an organisation . |
| 13 | Dementia may be defined as the global impairment of higher mental functioning including the loss of memory , problem solving ability , the use of learned skills , the loss of social skills and emotional control . |
| 14 | This phenomenon may be defined as the temporary cessation in development of a nematode at a precise point in its parasitic development . |
| 15 | Personal income may be defined as the algebraic sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights between the beginning and end of the period in question . |
| 16 | The thematic stage may be defined as the conceptual framework within which the story is told , presented and performed . |
| 17 | Prerogative may be defined as the exceptional position of the king at common law . |
| 18 | This salad may be served as a colourful starter or be made into a more substantial lunch or supper dish with the addition of some potato salad on top of the bed of lettuce . |
| 19 | In the mean time , however , the attempts to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to the people of Bangladesh may be regarded as a partial success , from which lessons can be learnt . |
| 20 | However , this may be regarded as a longer-term aim . |
| 21 | Even though odour emission may be regarded as a major consideration , as shown above , only rarely is planning permission refused on that ground alone , generally permission is granted but the development modified in some way to minimise any potential odour nuisance . |
| 22 | What may be regarded as a great bureaucracy has in fact great achievements to its credit . |
| 23 | Lord Sands in the Reid 's Trustees case at p529 stated : The dicta which might be founded upon … as indicating that a trust may be regarded as a mere agency or conduit pipe , are strictly limited to the case where the circumstances are similar , viz. , where there is one beneficiary and the estate is already realised and duly invested . |
| 24 | If people are accorded status because of the respect in which their achievements are held , then status may be regarded as a normal part of social life . |
| 25 | Ending discrimination against older consumers may be regarded as a moral imperative , but it also makes sound economic sense . |
| 26 | There is nothing improper in this process ; it may be regarded as a natural part of political negotiation in a pluralist society . |
| 27 | The etymology here could well indicate the contact during sleep between the living and the dead , in which case sleep may be regarded as a miniature death that takes a person away from the conscious life of the day . |
| 28 | The requirement of the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 Section 17 that each LEA should formulate a written policy on the range and balance of the school curriculum , and then that each school should consider but not necessarily follow that LEA policy , may be regarded as a brief , and confusing , interlude in the movement towards a national curriculum . |
| 29 | EDITOR 'S NOTE : We must document on our files why it is we consider that the client may be regarded as a corporate finance client . |
| 30 | First , while the efficient creation of wealth may be regarded as a high social priority , we also recognise individual and collective interests and values that ought not to be sacrificed in its pursuit . |