Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 2 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 3 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 4 | The person undertaking , if required to sign , states : " I understand the undertaking that I have given , and that if I break any of my promises to the court I may be sent to prison for contempt of court " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although I may be forced to . ’ |
| 7 | Or you may be referred to a dietitian . |
| 8 | You may be referred to a hospital specialist . |
| 9 | And if you , you go and see a G P at the end of the financial year or at the wrong part of the financial year , then you may be referred to somewhere strictly because that 's all the G P can , can afford to send you . |
| 10 | The Penal Notice contained in the N 117 for undertakings states : you may be sent to prison for contempt of court if you break the promises that you have given to the court . |
| 11 | You may be asked to " begin note-making and reading for an essay/class discussion on the reasons for Labour 's 1945 election victory " . |
| 12 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 13 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 14 | If you wish to obtain cover please send £5.00 to the office so that you may be added to the list . |
| 15 | She may be invited to be its Chancellor even though she 's only got one O-level . |
| 16 | once the spawning is complete the female must get out of the male 's way and should be removed from the breeding tank , otherwise she may be harried to the point of being killed . |
| 17 | ’ Then , provoked by we know not what domestic disaffection , he adds : ‘ And yf she be not obedient and healpfull unto hym , endevorethe to beate the feare of God into her heade , that therby she may be compelled to learne her dutie and do it . ‘ |
| 18 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 19 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 20 | Most proceedings may be commenced in either court , though they may be transferred to the other court in due course ; of the rest , there are some which should always be commenced in the county court and others which should always be commenced in the High Court ( notwithstanding that the county court has jurisdiction to hear the case ) . |
| 21 | It is initially intended to launch these schemes in Germany and Switzerland but they may be extended to other countries later . |
| 22 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 23 | RSI , by the use of an infrared ( IR ) line scanner , microwave radiometer , radar scatterometer and two sophisticated versions of the familiar optical camera offered a complete range of airborne remote sensing techniques , particularly as they may be applied to natural resources management . |
| 24 | When such changes are induced in the germ cells , they may be transmitted to descendants of the irradiated persons . |
| 25 | If adjustment to these constraints appears ( on the basis of psychological and/or physiological evidence ) to be innate rather than learned , they may be said to be ‘ built in ’ , or ‘ hard-wired ’ . |
| 26 | To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated . |
| 27 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 28 | Because food chains are simple , minerals absorbed into primary production settle in sediments where , in the absence of decomposers and detritus feeders , they may be lost to circulation . |
| 29 | I must announce to the House that I have not selected either of the amendments on the Order Paper , but they may be referred to during the debate . |
| 30 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |