Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] may be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am fully conscious of the fact that in so concluding I may be said not to be applying Reg. v. Morris . |
| 2 | In addition , registration does not create a priority point in the sense that the chargee is guaranteed priority from the date of registration ; this is because if A registers have charge on 21 January he has no guarantee that the company has not created a charge prior to this which may be registered within 21 days and thus have priority . |
| 3 | Therefore , the slope of IMI is now equal to the slope of the CML which may be defined as , Hence , at M we have Cross-multiplying , dividing both sides by adding to both sides in order to isolate , and defining as B i we have , multiplying out the bracket , therefore . |
| 4 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 5 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 6 | This applies even to such comparatively gross factors as minimal brain damage : in one family its effects may be modified and normalized ; in another they may be exaggerated and become the starting point of considerable behaviour problems . |
| 7 | From this it may be seen that the health of the motor industry is critical to the health of the British economy . |
| 8 | ‘ To this it may be objected that although it is necessary to tax in order to wage war , it is not necessary for the Executive to tax without a statute . |
| 9 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 10 | In this he may be assisted by the opportunity to use truncation , alphabetical lists of terms showing word variants , and so on . |
| 11 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 12 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the lack of association between reduced birth weight and the subsequent development of diabetes suggests that defects of β cell function , in addition to that which may be induced by malnutrition in utero , are probably required for the development of non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 14 | the anthropologist is committed not simply to description , but to analysing and questioning the definitions and assumptions on which social groups base their existence and predicate their activities , and to unveiling that which may be concealed or unrecognised . |
| 15 | There are a few instances , however , when even TNF needs further simplification , and these are looked at in Section 3.8 which may be skipped on first reading . |
| 16 | If the expert is negligent he may be sued by either party ( Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 17 | Overlooking the fact that too much will make one sick one may be moved to eat , facing the fact one is moved to refrain . |
| 18 | Conversely , it has also been shown that in the absence of another meal , the previous one may be kept in the stomach for more than twice as long as usual ( Chitty , 1938 ) , presumably with a gradual increase in stomach acidity , and the bones in this instance are likely to be strongly modified or even totally destroyed . |
| 19 | It is likely they may be amalgamated or changed in the future , but at the time of writing they are : |
| 20 | Each one may be made responsible for a specific task . |
| 21 | John Gillis has shown from a study of the London Foundling Hospital that higher servants , such as ladies ' maids , seem to have been particularly vulnerable which may be explained by the contradictions they experienced in attempting to combine customs of courtship and marriage appropriate to women of their class backgrounds with the standards of conduct expected by their employers . |
| 22 | There is one pointed apical papilla flanked on either side by 3–4 oral papillae ; the free end of the distalmost one may be widened . |
| 23 | An existing one may be used provided it has the accounts detailed below available within it . |
| 24 | He began writing to his friends : The life is as much a fiction as the poetry and becomes a kind of secondary creation against which the primary one may be read . |
| 25 | For many it may be thought that what the market gives you is both fair and rightly yours . |
| 26 | Where there is no tidal range wave attack is concentrated at the same level of the coast for twenty-four hours a day , but where the tidal range is great it may be spread over a vast foreshore zone and may only attack the foot of the cliffs for a very short period at each high tide . |
| 27 | There is first of all what may be termed the technical conception of a hierarchical level . |
| 28 | Problems which may arise in any family are those which may be seen as related to the Oedipal situation — the sexual attachment which arises between parent and child and which is not always worked through adequately . |
| 29 | The subjects listed opposite are those which may be counted towards the General Entrance Requirement . |
| 30 | no right to dividends other than those which may be recommended by the directors ; |