Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
2 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
3 | If this is successful it may be run as described above . |
4 | It may be seen as expressing the personality of the author , in accordance with the famous formula of the French scholar Buffon ( 1978 : xvii ) , that the style is the man ( ‘ le style est l'homme même ’ ) ; or it may be related to a literary movement or period ( e.g. futurist style , baroque style ) . |
5 | So if a premium is paid before 6 April 1993 , it may be treated as having been paid during 1990/91 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It may be based as Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 itself was , on the allegation that the defendant is being prosecuted more than once for what is in effect the same offence . |
8 | The speechreader may grasp the meaning quickly but it may be received as bare fact , unadorned and unsoftened by excuses , explanations or reasons . |
9 | In broad terms it may be stated as being whether an original tenant under a lease containing a rent review clause is bound by privity of contract to pay the landlord for the time being of the premises a rent agreed or otherwise determined with a subsequent assignee of the term . |
10 | It may be defined as follows , where rf and r i are the risk-free rate of return and the required rate of return for the security ( for example , determined by Eq . |
11 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
12 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
13 | It is not directed , and the weight on it may be denoted as either wij or wji . |
14 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
15 | Although suicide is not , in itself , a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health . |
16 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
17 | In its simplest form , it may be described as denoting the emotional and attitudinal environment within which a political system operates . |
18 | A meal provided through the Meals on Wheels Service will provide one third of the daily intake required for good health , and to ensure that you get most benefit from your meal , it should be eaten as soon as it is delivered to you . |
19 | Again it should be seen as close and calculated that the shawl which wraps the head in shame at first , becomes at last a green emblem of mercy . |
20 | Circular 7/87. on the provisions of the 1986 Act , explains what is meant by the general conduct of the school : ‘ It should be seen as being concerned with the whole ethos of the school 's life ’ . |
21 | Although frequently expressed in curious language , it should be regarded as assisting all concerned in providing probably the best statement yet of what the pursuer 's case is . |
22 | This piece of furniture has become something of a shibboleth : both the Magistrates ' Association and the National Union of Journalists have said that it should be regarded as sacrosanct . |
23 | S 357(3) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 makes the position quite clear : ‘ Where interest is payable on more than one loan or treated as made to the borrower and the loans were made simultaneously , it should be treated as payable on one loan . ’ |
24 | Second , within the Consumer Movement , the long-standing question whether its producer capacity should be developed as independent industrial co-operatives and hence under the control of the people working in them , or whether it should be treated as incidental to the consumer co-operatives and accountable to them , had , as we have seen , been decided once and for all in favour of the latter alternative . |
25 | As such it should be treated as a light orange-yellow . |
26 | The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics . |
27 | Management , then , has become a whole-school process , and it should be approached as such in any INSET and support programmes organized by the Authority or its schools . |
28 | Management has become an whole-school process , entailing that every member of staff has a managerial role of some kind , and it should be approached as such in any INSET or support programmes . |
29 | The Earth was created by the assistance of the sun , and it should be left as it was … |
30 | Left forearm rotation may happen unconsciously , in which case it should be left as it is . |