Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The structure of a cell 's genetic material may soon be appreciated to be much more fluid than previously supposed , with a grey area emerging between truly chromosomal genetic material and the mobile genes of transposons , viruses , and as yet undiscovered entities . |
2 | This will be explored further in the next chapter ; here it must be stressed that these arrangements will in many cases have a quite fundamental impact upon the character of the policy and may thus be deemed to be part of the policy . |
3 | However , this is not the end of the matter for the scope of this withdrawal of immunity is limited by the remainder of section 17 , which provides three routes through which secondary action may finally be held to be not unlawful . |
4 | Where there is a surety to the agreement and an assignment by the tenant is agreed by the landlord , it is advisable to ensure that while the surety may still be forced to be bound by the obligations on its part contained in the agreement , the surety should not be forced to be a party to the lease . |
5 | When , however , its satisfactions depend upon the infliction of pain or damage upon an unwilling partner , the situation is again that of using a person as a mere object : the sadist ( or , sometimes , the masochist ) may genuinely be said to be a social and personal menace . |
6 | In poetry this minimum may always be assumed to be present but that is not true of the making of images . |
7 | A.3.1 The Vendor will forthwith notify in writing to the Purchaser any matter or thing which may arise or become known to any of them after the date of this Agreement ( whether or not prior to Completion ) which is inconsistent with any of the Warranties or which is or may reasonably be anticipated to be material to be known by a Purchaser for value of the Business . |
8 | By the nature of your job , you may reasonably be expected to be aware of the standards that are required . |
9 | As a professional , an engineer may owe a duty of care to anyone who may reasonably be expected to be affected by his or her professional conduct . |
10 | If the scheme is comprehensive , it may also be said to be an unwieldy instrument for judges and juries to use . |
11 | In this way , this family of solutions may also be considered to be a generalization of the Szekeres solutions with . |
12 | Like glass , they may also be considered to be intermediate between liquid and solid . |
13 | National Governments may also be found to be in breach of Articles 85 and 86 in combination with their duties under Articles 3 ( ? and 5 to co-operate with the EEC institutions in achieving the objectives of the Treaty , which include the institution of a system ensuring that competition is not distorted . |
14 | It is possible that if a large group of post-acute pancreatitis patients was studied , trypsin , lipase , and bicarbonate secretion may also be found to be significantly decreased . |
15 | The example in ( 22 ) simply extends the scope of Quality by viewing truth as a special sub-case of sincerity applied to assertions ; when one asks a question , one may standardly be taken to be asking sincerely and hence to be indeed lacking and requiring the requested information . |
16 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
17 | Over a smaller range , consistent with the acceptable variation of the mains , the relationship may even be assumed to be linear , with error well within the tolerance attainable for plant measurements with this device . |
18 | This may well be considered to be an important factor , but , like other arguments for restricting popular influence or control over political systems and assemblies , it is not a democratic argument . |
19 | Other biblical passages ( stage two ) may then be held to be less than adequate in terms of this criterion . |
20 | The structure of the Act of 1986 may initially be thought to be one in which the categories of authorised person and exempted person are mutually exclusive categories . |
21 | It may however be deemed to be incorrect if it provides the wrong gear ratios . |
22 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
23 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |