Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appreciate that this is a recurring argument , and that , ultimately , grants on the Council 's own expenditure may be treated this way . |
| 2 | No shot is fired and no further shots may be fired that game — the gun is now useless . |
| 3 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
| 4 | In non-contentious civil matters the client may be charged such sum as is fair and reasonable having regard to the circumstances of the case and , inter alia , its complexity , the skill and responsibility involved , the time spent , the number and importance of the documents , the amount or value of money or property involved , and the importance of the matter to the client . |
| 5 | Those who find it objectionable that an aesthetic problem should be taken so seriously may be assured that art represents the highest task and the true metaphysical activity of this life : witness the illustrious pioneer on my path , to whom I dedicate this essay . |
| 6 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
| 7 | Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time . |
| 8 | HE MAY BE GONE SOME TIME |
| 9 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 10 | Mountain View , California-based Drexler Technology Corp says it has informed Sony Corp that it believes Sony infringed its patents with a a new eight-track Dynamic Digital Sound system to be introduced this summer in Columbia Picture 's ‘ Last Action Hero ’ movie : Drexler has two patents on the reading of high density optical data in a strip format and believes the two patents may be infringed each time digital sound from the movie track is played back using the Sony system . |
| 11 | It should be remembered that an offer may be withdrawn any time before acceptance , unless the person making the offer receives something of value to keep the offer open or the offer is made under seal . |
| 12 | Talks may be accelerated this summer when Unilever 's Sir Michael Angus becomes Whitbread 's chairman . |
| 13 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 14 | Well thing is people are moving to an area they may be given some information by their company but |
| 15 | So lower ability children in British schools may be given less language training . |
| 16 | The company may be given more time in which to submit its return under s 118(2) , TMA 1970 , but this must be agreed with the inspector . |
| 17 | 18–1–1915 The Session had under consideration the question of the running of the public motor bus for pleasure on the Sabbath Day on certain occasions last summer , and the probability that such facilities may be increased this year , and instructed the Moderator to bring the matter to the notice of the Presbytery , with a View to the Presbytery taking such action as they may deem advisable to prevent such encroachment of the Lord 's Day . |
| 18 | The crêche may be located some distance away from where you will be working , and some have restrictions as to how far away you are allowed to be from your child in case you need to be contacted . |
| 19 | Again , other homeless people from the council waiting list may be offered such property , however inadequate , as an alternative to " bed and breakfast " accommodation . |
| 20 | Meals on wheels may be offered any number of days per week . |
| 21 | No appeal is allowed under Burma 's new martial law orders and Amnesty International fears that Moe Kyaw Thu , Zaw Gyi and Nyi Nyi U may be executed any day . |
| 22 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 23 | To Mrs Rait 's yard-long list and all bakers and caterers , may be added this year two ‘ members of the general public ’ , as they described themselves , who volunteered , as also did some pupils of George Watson 's College through Roger Vandersteen , and the wife of an elder of Murrayfield Church ( they all made exemplary Indians ! ) . |
| 24 | It may be suggested that competition in provision of market analysis and in research and development has also been aimed at increasing market share and discouraging entry . |
| 25 | It may be doubted that memory mechanisms form the sole basis of these effects , however , given that formally equivalent conditional discriminations using rats as the subjects have regularly found a DOE using a procedure which makes no demand on memory because the conditional cue remains present until the choice response is made . |
| 26 | Whilst period pain may be helped each month by remedies selected from this table , the recurrent nature of these problems is unlikely to be affected until a more constitutional approach is adopted . |
| 27 | ( Beuys 's own work — in the form of prints and multiples — incidentally , may be caught this month , until the 19th , at John Gibson . ) |
| 28 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 29 | Only 1 wound may be recovered each turn , and the character may never have more wounds than he began with . |
| 30 | ‘ This is to be welcomed , since continental European markets may be subdued this year , ’ he added . |