Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] may be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I may be permitted to quote from Morris Zapp 's lecture on ‘ Textuality as striptease ’ in my novel , Small World : |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I may be permitted to take you , ’ Lubor jumped in before she could draw another breath . |
| 3 | As he is interested in having inaccuracies corrected , perhaps I may be permitted to clear up some which appeared in his letter . |
| 4 | Perhaps I may be allowed to paraphrase for brevity from Scientists against Time by J. P. Baxter in his official account of the American Office of Scientific Research and Development : |
| 5 | Editor , — As one of the two speakers criticised in Council by Mr John Chawner for saying that schemes for tax relief on child care were non-starters and a waste of health service money perhaps I may be allowed to draw attention to a debate earlier that day . |
| 6 | At any rate , perhaps I may be allowed to communicate with Your Majesty on this point , or ask my Private Secretary to discuss it with Sir Michael Adeane . |
| 7 | In The Secret Sharer , the narrator-reader relationship is objectified by the use of " I " , so that we feel the observer as being a separate identity from ourselves , however much we may be invited to share his vision . |
| 8 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 9 | Intrapersonal conflict occurs in an individual where there are several equally attractive options but only one may be chosen . |
| 10 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 11 | Literally it may be defined as ‘ the geography of living organisms ’ or since geography is traditionally the study of living things and particularly man in relation to the environment , the most accurate job description of the subject may be the ‘ geography of the biosphere ’ . ’ |
| 12 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |
| 13 | Sometimes it is convenient to give the line some thickness and so what may be called the " cooked spaghetti " model is used . |
| 14 | So what may be expected now that the deadline for disposals by the major brewers has passed ? |
| 15 | Thus we may be said to have duties of kindness towards the animals ; but it is incorrect to represent these as strictly duties towards the animals themselves , as if they had rights against us . |
| 16 | What the public should remember is that the murderers the rapists have n't gone away … they 're in Bullingdon prison now and pretty soon they may be housed in Oxford prison |
| 17 | Nevertheless it may be said that Elizabeth Taylor was more often at her best in each successive collection of stories , though I do not know that she ever surpassed the brilliant study of deception in the title story of A Dedicated Man . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it may be observed that in the earliest phases of the life of the Cowdery 's Down settlement when all the buildings were closely associated with fenced enclosures the majority of bone and cereal recovered came from buildings straddling the fence . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it may be resorted to in order to help resolve some uncertainty or ambiguity in municipal law : per Lord Ackner in Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 , 761 . |
| 20 | Thus it may be seen that the only grains actually suspended in the air are the very fine ones . |
| 21 | Thus it may be argued that managers are more important than routine office staff since the latter are dependent on direction and organization from management . |
| 22 | Thus it may be said ( stage one ) that fundamental to the biblical outlook is that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek , nor bond nor free , no more male and female . |
| 23 | Thus it may be committed by wrongfully taking possession of goods , by wrongfully disposing of them , by wrongfully destroying them or simply by wrongfully refusing to give them up when demanded , for in all these cases can be traced conduct by the defendant which amounts to a denial of the plaintiff 's rights or the assertion of inconsistent rights . |
| 24 | When it flies away it may be Pursued until it has left the vicinity — as is happening with this beleaguered golden eagle being chased by a group of aggressive ravens . |
| 25 | Finally it may be noted that the gentry of Babergh hundred were more sharply differentiated from the remainder of the community than their fellows in Rutland . |
| 26 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 27 | That is , the appearance of AB being shorter than BC is not what may be called a ‘ perspectival appearance ’ . |
| 28 | Taking my cue from her collaborations with David Steele and Andy Cox of the Fine Young Cannibals ( who have produced three tracks for the album ) , I suggest that eventually she may be drawn beyond the usual limits of rap , towards creating real verse and chorus songs . |
| 29 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 30 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |