Example sentences of "may be [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deal may be struck between Gordon Taylor , chief executive of the PFA , and his Premier League counterpart , Rick Parry , after meetings between the two this weekend . |
| 2 | . Whatever opinions may be entertained concerning Mosley and his movement , there could be no graver stigma on the so-called freedom of expression said to prevail in Britain than that a body of Englishmen should be prevented from expressing their views by an Oriental confectioner . |
| 3 | It is evident that the government 's targets for children of school age and young adults may be exceeded in Lothian but that those for pre-school children and adults may not . |
| 4 | The Local Government Bill when introduced to Parliament contained six principal features which may be summarised from Redlich and Hirst ( 1958:202 — 3 ) as follows : |
| 5 | This is not the moment to rehearse the arguments for and against the various options with which we may be presented in December , so I leave the House with two brief thoughts . |
| 6 | To handle the change of tree computationally , we must specify how the parent function P' of T' may be determined from P. Experimentation with a few examples will show that the following rules have the desired effect . |
| 7 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 8 | By the end of 1989 Iraq had attained a production level of 2.9 million b/d , which may be compared with Iran 's recovery for the same year to 2.8 million . |
| 9 | Financial donations to CAUSE may be sent to Mrs Pat McBride , Newlands Schools , Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | The mental element with respect to unlawfulness remains to be determined , but it may be assumed after Morgan that it would be intention or recklessness . |
| 11 | This may be illustrated by Marx 's view of the nature of ownership and production in capitalist society . |
| 12 | Some boots may be insulated with Thinsulate or a fibrepile lining and others may incorporate breathable , waterproof membranes . |
| 13 | If your taste demands something more cultured than a shopping and scoffing experience , you may be fascinated by Dusseldorf 's wealth of museums and galleries . |
| 14 | FIRST QUARTER FIGURES MAY BE DISCOURAGING FOR IBM |
| 15 | It is worth emphasising again , however , that these traditions are , apparently , of relatively recent origin and that there is early authority only for the fact that Molla Fenari was Mufti ( except , perhaps , in so far as it may be argued from Taskopruzade that he was the first Mufti , as noted at the beginning of the chapter ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I rather gather , ’ he said , ‘ the police may be looking at Gray 's connection with that man Jefferson . |
| 17 | But the organisational side needs to move up a gear — or the RIAC may be looking towards Wexford for a replacement round for next year 's championship . |
| 18 | The three abortion cases , which may be reached in December , are unlikely to lead to a clean reversal of Roe v Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which granted an absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and an almost unrestricted right in the next three . |
| 19 | Mr. Beazley invites me to give a very broad interpretation to paragraph 12 of the Kalfelis [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 5565 judgment and to say that all these swap actions fall broadly within the test that it is expedient to hear and determine them together ; he argues that the use of the plural in that paragraph shows that the principle there laid down covers several defendants in groups of actions as well as several defendants in an individual action ; and he submits that there is a risk here of irreconcilable judgments , seeing that both at first instance and thereafter , if the cases proceed up to the appellate process , different decisions may be reached in England and Scotland respectively , on the questions of English law which arise ( there is no suggestion that Scottish law applies to these actions ) . |
| 20 | This may be reached from Horton in Ribblesdale , but more pleasantly from Clapham by taking the bridleway east of the church . |
| 21 | To better understand and service your needs , we make a special effort to answer all of our customers ' questions and to help them with any technical problems that may be related to MiLAN products . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Appointed Actuary system may be followed in Europe and is being introduced in the USA and Canada . |
| 23 | These monies may be invested in UK land and then in gilts . |
| 24 | RON Brown , the former MP with a career behind him which makes the words ‘ chequered ’ and ‘ roller coaster ’ seem understated , may be gone from Westminster . |
| 25 | A similar structure may be discerned in Del Giudice 's novels ( which tend to the episodic ) , but is decisive in another important book of the mid-1980s , Gianni Celati 's Narratori delle pianure ( Story-tellers of the plains 1985 ) , a book with which Celati returned to writing after seven years of ‘ silence ’ and critical and theoretical reflection . |
| 26 | For instance , the information focus may be placed on John , and in this case the message will be understood as a statement of who was appointed Chairman and may imply surprise or contrast : |
| 27 | President Bush tells the American people that " a line has been drawn in the sand " and that as many as 50,000 US troops may be dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 28 | Where blood is taken from a patient for another purpose , a small sample of blood may be tested for HIV . |
| 29 | Thus , if the index starts with a base figure of 100 in , say , January 1984 and rises to 300 by September 1990 , the index may be recalculated from October 1990 onwards by reference to the figure shown in the index for September 1990 , which becomes the new base figure of 100 . |
| 30 | And another 120 jobs may be created at EMI in Greenbridge . |