Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the rationalist side in each case the enquiry begins from what may be called an anthropological starting-point . |
| 2 | Some may be given an ample incentive , like Rodney Brooke , former chief executive of Westminster City Council , who received a £1 million early retirement package for not revealing details of the Council 's sale for 15p of three cemeteries . |
| 3 | It is common ground between the parties , and , on the basis of earlier cases , rightly so , that the visitor to a university may be given an exclusive jurisdiction , e.g. , to decide disputes arising under the statutes of the university , as may visitors to such eleemosynary foundations as schools , colleges and dioceses . |
| 4 | In the urge to achieve coverage those who find little comfort in academic work may be given an arid diet of superficiality which neither ‘ promotes ’ their ‘ spiritual , moral , cultural development ’ nor ‘ prepares ’ them for the opportunities , responsibilities and experiences of adult life . |
| 5 | The manufacturer could impose full-line forcing , obliging the retailer to take a whole range of its products if it takes one , or tie-in sales , no X sold without Y. It could impose exclusive purchasing ( no products of a certain description to be bought from anywhere but itself ) , and may offer selective and exclusive distribution agreements ( suppliers have to meet certain criteria in order to be selected to distribute a product , and may be offered an exclusive territory or even absolute territorial protection ) . |
| 6 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 7 | 9.8 An employee who suffers personal injury for which compensation is not payable under the Regional Council 's approved schemes may be awarded an ex-gratia payment to compensate for any financial expenditure incurred . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the rhetoric is Type II , whilst the proposals are Type I. This may be considered an oversimplistic observation , but it would appear to contain some element of the truth . |