Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [conj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may be noted that this area is supported by the ESPRIT 11 programme .
2 It may be noted that this property is also shared by the combination of terms that are contained in ( 10.16 ) .
3 It may be noted that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) .
4 It may be noted that these solutions are continuous on the boundaries between the subregions A and B. Also , the terms involving the Legendre functions of the first kind are regular on the focusing hypersurface , while those involving the Legendre functions of the second kind are singular on this surface .
5 On the other hand , students may be reassured that those requirements are rigorously applied .
6 Culture may be defined as those ideas , traditions , points of view and modes of behaviour which exist amongst a particular people , and which are transmitted , through learned behaviour , from generation to generation .
7 First of all , if support teachers always take individual needs as their starting point it may be assumed that any modifications to the curriculum for a particular child relate uniquely to that child 's difficulties .
8 In any situation where someone has died , it may be assumed that more people are likely to be significantly affected by the death of that one individual than may seem apparent .
9 It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e .
10 It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most .
11 With reference to figure 10.8(b) , application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input circuit yields and since the closed-loop gain may be represented as This time the closed-loop input impedance is With regard to the output impedance , if is the input impedance of the feedback network , Kirchhoff 's laws applied to the output circuit give Assuming that the impedance of a source of e.m.f. connected to the input is negligible compared with , Kirchhoff 's voltage law applied to the input circuit yields Hence from which the closed-loop output impedance is Often the first term of this expression is negligible compared with the second in which case
12 It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do .
13 It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ .
14 It may be argued that some men , in the heat of the moment , may genuinely be mistaken .
15 It may be argued that these proposals amount to no more than state capitalism .
16 It may be argued that this issue was seriously underpriced and that the nation undersold-its asset by about 1.3 billion .
17 If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating .
18 Alternatively the policy may be terminated and any surrender value taken .
19 Alternatively , the policy may be terminated and any surrender value taken .
20 Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat .
21 It may be conceded that these cases do not put the point beyond argument , although they clearly point towards non-liability in the assignee .
22 The book may be seen as another step in the loss of accounting 's innocence
23 As anticipated in the discussion in Section 7.2 , it may be observed that this expression contains the necessary multiples of and that are required to cancel the effects of the unbounded term on the boundary .
24 It may be said that these facts are materially different from those in our problem , for in our problem there seems to be no choice as to who is to die : it is simply ( one supposes ) a question of some or all .
25 By applying the coordinate rotation ( 12.11 ) to the line element ( 11.12 ) , it may be shown that this rotation is exactly equivalent to the transformation ( 12.9 ) , indicating that this transformation may be simply interpreted as a global rotation of coordinates .
26 Mix and match elections ( see para 1.2 above ) may be offered where some shareholders are expected to want to realise their investment and others are expected to want to roll-over their capital gains into new ordinary shares of the offeror .
27 The effects of preventive and corrective measures will be monitored and the operation may be postponed until any problems have been resolved .
28 However ironic it may seem , the same corporate power so often targeted by these protests may be ensuring that such protest art has a guaranteed place in those museums .
29 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
30 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
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