Example sentences of "[that] it may [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists have attacked the plan for lacking specifics , and have warned that it may be diminished by budgetary cutbacks as a result of scrutiny by the federal Treasury . |
| 2 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 3 | A further problem for the Church is that it may be seen by some people as a stepping-stone to a political career . |
| 4 | In one sense , literature is like any other form of social or cultural activity , so that it may be analyzed in semiological terms ; this would involve discovering what the nature of its component signs are , and how the system governing their use and combinations operates . |
| 5 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 6 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 7 | Indeed , it may be that it goes further , and effectively means that the seller has not undertaken to deliver the goods at all , so that it may be argued that the seller has undertaken no obligation and , prior to delivery , there is only a unilateral contract under which the buyer is committed to pay if the seller delivers . |
| 8 | Those who believe that they could point out that Loch Ness is very deep , and moreover that it may be connected by a series of subterranean passages with the sea . |
| 9 | I think we are agreed , are we not , that it may be connected with the one which you and Julia found in the asylum out-buildings ? ’ |
| 10 | Each statement must be dated and signed by the maker and must contain a declaration that the maker believes the statement to be true and understands that it may be placed before the court . |
| 11 | There is the fear that it may be lost or stolen , or that you simply have n't enough with you . |
| 12 | Organically grown produce is packaged so that it can be identified and so that it may be distinguished from other produce . |
| 13 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |
| 14 | Companies have got the directive weakened , but worry that it may be beefed up again . |
| 15 | But that it may be redirected towards other ends is shown by the way in which labor difficulties become unpopular during war when employers and employees unite against a common foe ’ |
| 16 | I am fascinated to notice that your profession has at last started not merely to say that , but to criticise those who refuse to allow so manifest a fact to be stated in order that it may be examined . |
| 17 | However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system . |
| 18 | However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system . |
| 19 | The majority of actual examples investigated by Johnson revealed profiles of the second type , so that it may be concluded that much of the material forming the bar is eroded from the sea floor . |
| 20 | I am not ignoring that it may be said that this in one sense is proving idem per idem , but none the less I do not think the fact can be ignored . |
| 21 | The method is not statistically valid , but is viable in the same way as quota sampling , in that it may be based on objective proportions . |
| 22 | He described it as ‘ a sort of mechanised private file and library in which an individual stores his books , records and communications , and which is mechanised so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility ’ . |
| 23 | A policy statement not only clarifies the library 's position on censorship , but recognizes that controversial material exists , that it may be selected or rejected , and that the library may have to defend its decision . |
| 24 | Each time , the review officer asks ‘ is there the evidence ? ’ ; each time he or she is permitted to say that it may be obtained by further questioning . |
| 25 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 26 | This subsection is expressed to apply only in certain defined circumstances , but it is , I think , common ground that it may be treated as having general application . |
| 27 | Bar-Belle 's Len Perry says that it may be converted to an L-4 Grasshopper , or it may be painted pink and called Tinker-Belle ! |
| 28 | The money supply is of no intrinsic significance : it only matters to the extent that it may be manipulated in such a way as to achieve other intermediate objectives of macroeconomic policy such as interest rate or exchange rate stability . |
| 29 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 30 | The long punters will have plenty of sport with that one though there could be considerable confusion at a quick kick where the revised law says that it may be taken without waiting for the kicker 's team to retire behind the ball — provided they do not become involved in play . |