Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under pressure , an advice worker may be tempted to take short cuts . |
| 2 | The UCTA 1977 makes some clauses wholly ineffective , but the drafter or the client may be tempted to include such terms in order to deter claims , relying on the fact that many of the persons against whom the contract will be enforced will be ignorant of the law . |
| 3 | The drafter may be tempted to overcome this problem by using " and/or " , as follows : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract and/or recover goods already delivered and/or retain all payments already made . |
| 4 | The client , or the drafter , may be tempted to have strict terms and then relax them in practice , for instance by not insisting on their strict application . |
| 5 | Sometimes " 'mini-groups " ( which may be unsupervised by counselling staff ) may be formed to discuss specific issues of common concern , such as issues particularly appropriate for women . |
| 6 | Courts are likely to be faced with more complex parliamentary history and consequently more difficulty in determining whether a statement may be assumed to demonstrate parliamentary intention . |
| 7 | The amounts which may be charged to share premium account are determined by the requirements of companies legislation . |
| 8 | Just a few examples may be cited to highlight this problem . |
| 9 | Equation ( 8.10 ) or ( 8.11 ) may be adjusted to incorporate changing growth rates as follows , . |
| 10 | Concentration on character may be argued to allow critical misconstruction about how the plays ' dramatic action works . |
| 11 | It may be communicated to the court in the following ways : ( a ) Oral testimony Witnesses may be called to give oral evidence to the court . |
| 12 | MAS may be asked to contact potential acquisition candidates already identified by a client . |
| 13 | In both areas , a candidate may be accepted but their bureau manager may be asked to pay particular attention to some area of weakness that became apparent in the interview . |
| 14 | However , if small companies wish to borrow extensively , the directors may be asked to provide personal guarantees for the company 's loan ; hence their own personal assets may be called upon to repay the loan in the event of the company 's financial collapse . |
| 15 | The second part is an overview of the trading strategies which may be created using traded options . |
| 16 | Having taken a look at the nature of , and influences upon , options , we can now examine the investment strategies which may be created using traded options . |
| 17 | New ideas may be assimilated into given modes of thinking or given modes of thinking may be altered to accommodate new ideas . |
| 18 | Apart from the general characteristics of the basic blend adjustments may be made to suit regional variations in water hardness , by the addition of sequestrants . |
| 19 | However , an attempt may be made to allocate particular bits or groups of bits in the operation code field to particular features of the instruction ; one bit , for example , might specify whether the result of an operation is to be placed in the accumulator , and another whether the fixed-point arithmetic unit is to be used by the operation . |
| 20 | For example , if a public figure suffers a bereavement and no suitable image is available for transmission a stock photo may be amended to indicate plausible grief . |
| 21 | Individual constant-k filter sections suffer from insufficient attenuation just outside the pass band and , although several identical constant-k sections may be cascaded to overcome this drawback , the resulting filter is rather unwieldy . |
| 22 | Difficult modes of speech may be coined to convey difficult themes , but the private nature of the artist 's invention is what gives it its power . |
| 23 | Forecasting ‘ more of a melee than a contest ’ Bevan stated that awards may be given to recognise outstanding kites , team uniforms and accessories , team spirit etc . |
| 24 | In summary , then , the fourth element of the Constitution — parliamentary government under a constitutional monarch — may be seen to comprise different relationships and powers . |
| 25 | The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this . |
| 26 | Alternatively , circuits may be built using basic components on the Plugblock ( prototype board ) — layouts are given in all cases . |
| 27 | Here we shall move straight to looking at how such principles may be extended to encompass this challenge . |
| 28 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 29 | Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners . |
| 30 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |