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

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1 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that these acts were replaced by the Supreme Court of judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 , which has itself now been replaced by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and by certain provisions in the Limitation Act 1980 ( consolidating earlier Limitation Acts ) .
2 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 .
3 On the other hand , students may be reassured that those requirements are rigorously applied .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ .
8 It may be argued that some men , in the heat of the moment , may genuinely be mistaken .
9 It may be argued that these proposals amount to no more than state capitalism .
10 If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating .
11 Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat .
12 It may be conceded that these cases do not put the point beyond argument , although they clearly point towards non-liability in the assignee .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The effects of preventive and corrective measures will be monitored and the operation may be postponed until any problems have been resolved .
16 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
17 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
18 Any means of correction may be used but all corrections should be neat and unobtrusive .
19 The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience .
20 It may be doubted whether these sources were often on the credit side as long as the papacy had to pay out considerable sums to consolidate its position and to enter into compacts and agreements with some of the towns : but a list of revenues and rents from Spoleto in 1198 is not negligible .
21 For this reason , amongst others , it may be anticipated that many parents of children who truant will , at the end of the day , continue to be dealt with in punitive fashion .
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