Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suggest that the issue is not that ‘ a considerable possibility of overtreatment ’ exists but that potentially damaging and ineffective treatment may be undertaken outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial . |
| 2 | ‘ THIS RECORD might be the stuff of tragi-comedy , but the funereal tune with cumbersome guitars and world-weary singing kills any irony that may be hidden in the lyrics . ’ |
| 3 | Among drug users many of these symptoms may be caused by the drugs used , withdrawal of drugs , or , alternatively , symptoms may be suppressed by the use of drugs . |
| 4 | It now seems the land around may be peppered with the graves of the dead of 25 centuries . |
| 5 | If they do not fully understand them , they may be destroyed by the voices of the old unreconstructed socialist Left who will briefly find their voice again . |
| 6 | to offer to the holders of ordinary shares of £1 each in the capital of the Company ( ‘ Ordinary Shares ’ ) the right to elect to receive an allotment of new Ordinary Shares , credited as fully paid , in lieu of all or part of the final cash dividend in respect of the financial year of the Company ended on 31st March 1993 in all respects in such manner as may be determined by the directors on the basis and subject to the conditions of the circular dated 21st June 1993 sent to the members of the Company by the Company and , in particular , such that the aggregate nominal value of the new Ordinary Shares which such holders may elect to receive may exceed the aggregate cash dividend which they would otherwise be entitled to receive ; and |
| 7 | ( 2 ) The Company may require a member to furnish any information , document or other matter which the Directors may think necessary for the purpose of enabling the Company to comply with the Rules and the member shall furnish the information , document or other matter required within such period as may be determined by the Directors . |
| 8 | Failing such information or evidence being furnished the Directors may give the person from whom the information or evidence required notice that , if the information or evidence in question is not furnished within such periods as may be determined by the Directors and stated in the notice , the Directors may refuse to register the transfer in question or ( in case no transfer is in question ) may require that a Transfer Notice be given in respect of the Shares concerned . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) The Company may require a member to furnish any information , document or other matter which the Directors may think necessary for the purpose of enabling the Company to comply with the Rules and the member shall furnish the information , document or other matter required within such period as may be determined by the Directors . |
| 10 | Failing such information or evidence being furnished the Directors may give the person from whom the information or evidence required notice that , if the information or evidence in question is not furnished within such periods as may be determined by the Directors and stated in the notice , the Directors may refuse to register the transfer in question or ( in case no transfer is in question ) may require that a Transfer Notice be given in respect of the Shares concerned . |
| 11 | This right of election ( which may be exercised by the beneficiaries of a deceased partner 's estate in the event that no personal representative has been appointed ) may be excluded by agreement , eg provision for the automatic accruer of the share of an outgoing partner or for the purchase of such share with interest until payment — see Vyse v Foster ( 1872 ) LR 8 Ch App 309 . |
| 12 | If you suspect , for example , that your neighbour intends to build on your land , or if your windows are going to be blocked so that no light can get through , or if an unreasonable nuisance is going to be caused , then your last hope may be to go to the courts and ask for an injunction . |
| 13 | In addition , Bagnold has observed that barchans may be formed in the troughs between series of seif dunes , in the manner shown in Fig. 1 1.5 . |
| 14 | They are covered by the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) , under which mergers involving the takeover of assets worth ( currently ) £30m or more may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) . |
| 15 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 16 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 17 | The stages in this programme may be compared to the steps of a ladder . |
| 18 | The effectiveness of the support provided by the IDB to encourage companies to develop their export potential may be illustrated by the results which they achieve through their involvement in these schemes , and during 1990/91 , companies taking part in the IDB trade missions and trade fairs programme reported actual and potential orders totalling around £46 million . |
| 19 | Indeed , in some cases evidence that seems to point to one of these things may be rejected on the grounds that the phenomenon is impossible . |
| 20 | It can also examine timetables to ensure that bus companies operate not only at peak times but at midday or at other times when people wish to travel to doctors , hospitals or services that may be situated in the centres of population in cities and towns . |
| 21 | Later on , permanent handrails may be fixed to the walls of the toilet , if necessary . |
| 22 | Whilst the demand for buildings shows a considerable variation around the movement of the economy , the most violent swings may be felt by the manufacturers of specific products like bricks , concrete , roof-tiles and the like . |
| 23 | You may be limited by the hours the crêche is open as not all remain open in the evening , or begin early enough in the morning . |
| 24 | whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; |
| 25 | whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; |
| 26 | ‘ ( i ) whether proceedings upon indictment may be stayed on the grounds of prejudice resulting from delay in the institution of those proceedings even though that delay has not been occasioned by any fault on the part of the prosecution ; ( ii ) if the answer to ( i ) above is in the affirmative what is the degree of : ( a ) the likelihood and ( b ) the seriousness of any prejudice which is required to justify a stay of such proceedings . |
| 27 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 28 | It is quoted in full : 6 Private residence exception : separated couples Where a married couple separate or are divorced and one partner ceases to occupy the matrimonial home and subsequently as part of a financial settlement disposes of the home , or an interest in it , to the other partner the home may be regarded for the purposes of Sections [ 222 to 224 of TCGA 1992 ] 101 to 103 as continuing to be a residence of the transferring partner from the date his or her occupation ceases until the date of transfer , provided that it has throughout this period been the other partner 's only or main residence . |
| 29 | Several departments and levels may be represented in the groups which come together and accomplish more or less well defined objectives and then disperse . |
| 30 | Cambrian descendants of these so-called trilobozoans ( such as Albumares and Tribrachidium ; Fig. 3 a ) may be represented by the anabaritids ; their calcareous tubes are tri-radial ( Fig. 3 d ) , as defined by internal keels ( Fig. 3 b , e ) . |