Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be tempted to re-invest in more R&D to gain another technological lead . |
| 2 | It may be tempted to re-invest in more R&D to gain another technological lead . |
| 3 | A statute or one section of a statute may be made to deal with some particular subject — perhaps with immigration , or drugs , or housing or education — but a situation arises where doubt is cast on the meaning of the words of the statute . |
| 4 | The fact that the taxpayer may be said to benefit in some way from the overseas income — he was able to buy the property because the loan was made to him and he could only keep up , or he kept up , the payments of interest by using that income — is not enough to cause there to be a remittance . |
| 5 | Councillors on authorities other than education authorities may be invited to participate at some level in educational administration and in the case of primary schools , district and parish councils may have rights in respect of appointing governors . |
| 6 | This can only be achieved by working prospectively on the child 's future environment and by deciding which new experiences may be introduced to compensate for those which , in the past , have proved to be inadequate for language development . |
| 7 | A person who is considered by the senior invigilator to be disruptive during an examination may be required to withdraw from that examination . |
| 8 | 1.1 You are employed in the service of the Council initially at … but following consultation and mutual agreement with the appropriate trade union you may be required to service at another of the Council 's establishments . |
| 9 | Considerable variation was found within this population and comparisons are currently being made between those children who might be regarded as readers of poor , average and high ability to establish whether different patterns of cognitive abilities may be used to account for this variation . |
| 10 | Evans-Pritchard 's ‘ Social Anthropology ’ devotes much attention to the Victorian anthropologists , Tylor and Frazer , then passes on to their critics , ‘ Durkheim and the Année Sociologique group of writers ’ , thus recapitulating Eliot 's own interests ; some ‘ features may be found to exist in all human societies , primitive and civilized alike ’ ; the paper relates anthropology to religious belief , ‘ with special reference to Catholic apologetics ’ . |
| 11 | Any one of these may be highlighted and then located in the database to display a full summary of its present rating with regard to the nature of the substance , its source and effect on man , and notes may be added to expand on this . |