Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under section 224 a company may at any time before the end of nine months from the date of its incorporation give notice to the Registrar specifying what its accounting reference date is to be . |
| 2 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4·6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 3 | By judicious choice of the design limits in relation to the curve of Figure 7.5 a compromise may be possible at say , 2 standard deviations either side of the mean at which 4.6 per cent of the items will be rejected as unusable . |
| 4 | Such a threat may constitute a bluff in that the prime minister would have more to lose if an election was called than would most MPs ( the PM could lose office : most seats are safe seats and so most MPs could expect to be reelected ) , but nonetheless it has proved a potent influence in determining parliamentary behaviour . |
| 5 | Such a style may sometimes become a little wearing , and may , perhaps , lack elegance , but a set of standard terms is not read for pleasure . |
| 6 | Such a module may be contained in the package as either LATEST or SELECTED APPROVED version . |
| 7 | Such a module may be contained in the package as either Latest or Selected Approved version . |
| 8 | They have , for example , suggested that even where there is no express requirement to consult , such a requirement may be implied on the grounds of fairness . |
| 9 | In this way people using such a terminology may distinguish the role of father from that of father 's brother . |
| 10 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 11 | Whether such a United Nations declaration would have deterred Iraq from environmental vandalism is uncertain but , given the enormous scale of the pollution problems which resulted , such a deterrent may offer some hope for wartime situations in the future . |
| 12 | Such a man may be delighted to become a father yet he will not wish to think that he is depriving his partner of her career — even temporarily . |
| 13 | To destroy such a man may be necessary and unavoidable in order to protect other members of society . |
| 14 | This subsection applies both to mandatory life sentences for murder and to discretionary life sentences for other offences for which such a sentence may lawfully be imposed . |
| 15 | The discussion of concepts of accountability in Chapter 1 suggests , however , that such a separation may not be justified . |
| 16 | However , such a lexicon may not always represent semantic relationships as effectively ; the ratio of foot forms to inflections ( i.e. the ’ grain-size ’ ) is also important . |
| 17 | Thus a councillor may find himself co-opted on to a committee of another local authority , since such a committee may , providing it is not a finance committee , co-opt non-members . |
| 18 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 19 | Typical objectives of such a scheme may be : |
| 20 | For example , the choice of which among several patients should receive a scarce resource is not best tackled in the hurly-burly of political debate ; but the ethical ground rules which should guide such a choice may well be the product of such debate initially . |
| 21 | It is unwise for general practitioners and the staff of casualty departments to delay giving antibiotic treatment until a lumbar puncture has been performed , such a response may prove fatal . |
| 22 | This is because the raising of such a defence may involve the necessity of a reference to the European Court of Justice under article 177 of the Treaty . |
| 23 | Although this is contemplated by the European Court of Justice in the San Giorgio case , it is evident from Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 that the point is not without its difficulties ; and the availability of such a defence may depend upon the nature of the tax or other levy . |
| 24 | The line of such a woodbank may be marked by pollarded trees , which have , in effect , been coppiced at a higher level , above the reach of cattle . |
| 25 | Such a realization may have been fuelled by my existing knowledge of mythology ( though it is not detailed in this respect ) , but it arose in a form that conveyed more in two seconds than two hours of normal thought could produce . |
| 26 | Such a performance may be verbal or non-verbal . |
| 27 | For other plants where either the proportion of leaves to total biomass is not constant ( e.g. maize ) or the leaves are a smaller proportion of the biomass ( e.g. shrubs ) such a relationship may not exist . |
| 28 | If the employer is looking to make a judgement on a candidate 's power of invention and imagination then such a question may be relevant but this is open to question if he is seeking to appoint a solid contracts officer . |
| 29 | However , the hidden messages in such a question may be of some importance in terms of conditioning the consciousness of the — largely working class — students for whom CSE mathematics courses are intended . |
| 30 | Such a person may well earn a penalty if they continue to back-pedal . |