Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , it may be noted that the male skull is less rounded , the female skull tending to retain more the adolescent form . |
| 2 | Although this bone does not yield any absolute sexing criteria , it may be noted that the male clavicle is generally more robust and on average over 1 cm longer than the female ( Parsons , 1916 ) . |
| 3 | ( 10.60 ) It may be noted that the new coordinate t is a decreasing , or past pointing , time-like coordinate , and that the singularity in region IV occurs when . |
| 4 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 5 | Indeed , it may be argued that a British group lobbying Parliament demonstrates mainly its lack of access to , or impact on , the core of the policy-making process ( ministers and civil servants ) , unless the lobby is undertaken explicitly for symbolic purposes and in order to attract the attention of the media . |
| 6 | It may be argued that a binding contract was made on the telephone ; if so , any subsequent attempt to introduce new terms into the agreement will be ineffective unless there is a binding variation of the contract , supported by consideration . |
| 7 | Although it may be argued that a meaningful measure of comprehensive income can not be provided unless a full system of current value accounting is employed , the introduction of the SCFW is likely to encourage the preparers of financial statements to move away from the historical cost system and to value relevant assets at current values . |
| 8 | It may be argued that a more ‘ root and branch ’ approach has to be adopted , and we have considerable sympathy with this view ( see Lecture 1 ) . |
| 9 | Even if certain of the valuations are not as objective as historical cost valuations , it may be argued that an approximate current value is of more benefit to users of the financial statements than a zero valuation or a precise but irrelevant historical cost valuation . |
| 10 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |
| 11 | It may be argued that the new designs of the assessments will avoid such obvious pitfalls . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it may be argued that the Catholic Church puts on greater pressure for sheer attendance than some other churches . |
| 13 | Indeed , it may be argued that the current wave of ethnic or mini-ethnic agitations is a response to the overwhelmingly non-national and non-nationalist principles of state formation in the greater part of the 20th-century world . |
| 14 | These external pressures have worked through to the universities , and it may be argued that the current problems universities face in regard to research funding in the earth sciences are the result of the rapid , uncontrolled increases in the 1970's . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |
| 16 | It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs , the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices . |
| 17 | Thus it may be seen that the only grains actually suspended in the air are the very fine ones . |
| 18 | It may be seen that the non-detector zoned system is not a great improvement on the 29th edition system , as far as detection ( and hence flame damage ) is concerned . |
| 19 | But it may be observed that the general movement of culture offers little support to anyone who would pin his hopes for the future of man as a spiritual being on this kind of natural religion . |
| 20 | It may be observed that the new space-times also have the same Killing vector as the seed solution . |
| 21 | It may be observed that the linear regression line in Fig. 1 represents only the general tendency of the association between women 's age at first marriage and at first birth . |
| 22 | With further reference to the Toll-gate , it may be stated that the general traffic on the road , even in 1828–9 , was but little , and that scarcely on any occasion was the Keeper required to sit up late . |
| 23 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 24 | Although , in terms of campaigning , electoral turnout and party identification , it may be said that the two main parties in Britain are less important than they were , Britain still provides us with an example of party government resulting from a party system having considerable independent influence on the political process . |
| 25 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 27 | It may be concluded that the developing embryos and foetus show a pronounced sensitivity to the induction of malformations by radiation , particularly during the main phase of organogenesis . |
| 28 | Moreover , it may be shown that the general correlation , as in Fig. 19.4(a) , may be expressed in terms of the longitudinal and lateral correlations of Fig. 19.4(b) and ( c ) . |
| 29 | While it may be agreed that the different subtests assess different aspects of linguistic functioning , there is considerable controversy concerning whether this is a complete or representative set of subtests , and whether they do in fact tap the processes described by Osgood ( 1957a , 1957b ) . |
| 30 | In the view of successive Secretaries of State it is essential in the interests of national security and of any other grounds for which a warrant may be issued that no such inference should ever be capable of being drawn . |