Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Providing patients with information on admission to hospital and throughout their stay may be acknowledged as an important part of nursing but frequently , discharge is a very rushed affair .
2 Although it is not in itself part of the system which generates intensional structures , and we shall not make the term part of our fundamental descriptive apparatus , we may say that the property of an adjective applies to an entity when the language user takes the property which it designates to be valid ( in positive statements ) for some entity which he or she also recognizes ( even if the entity itself may be acknowledged as an imaginary one ) .
3 If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest .
4 At one level , the spectrum as a whole may be treated as a fingerprint , which can be used simply to recognize the product of some reaction as a known compound .
5 The tax treatment of discounted debentures is very complex but in many cases the " discount " may be treated as a deduction when computing the profits of a company which reduces the cost of the discount to a company .
6 However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor .
7 If the option to renew is included in the terms of the new lease , the lease may be treated as a perpetually renewable lease taking effect as a term of two thousand years ( Parkus v Greenwood [ 1950 ] Ch 644 ; Caerphilly Concrete Products Ltd v Owen [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 372 ; Law of Property Act 1922 , s145 and Sched 15 ) .
8 The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom .
9 The ‘ offer ’ probability may be treated as the product of ( i ) the probability that a vacancy will come to the individual 's notice and ( ii ) the probability that the individual , if available , will be ‘ offered ’ the job .
10 There is , however , another dimension to the debate , and this appears from the CLRC 's view that , where reckless driving causes death , this should not affect the label of the offence but may be treated as an aggravating factor in sentencing in appropriate cases .
11 The effect of the decision in Aveling Barford is that where a company has no retained earnings , a transfer by it to a sister company which is known to be at an under value may be treated as an unauthorised return of capital .
12 Plant pieces are not actively used in the construction of the nest , but they may be employed as an anchor , or in the case of broad leaf plants that reach the surface , as a site for the whole nest .
13 A member who is dismissed under this Article may be reinstated as a member on payment of all arrears of his subscription due at the time of his dismissal , and also any appropriate admission fee which may be decided by the Council .
14 They may be summarised as a revolt against the normal .
15 With Equity Capital , where larger amounts of finance are normally involved , the proportion of the ordinary equity will usually by 15–40% and a member of Barclays Development Capital Ltd. or the Barclays Baronsmead Fund may be appointed as a non-executive director .
16 A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge .
17 In computational theories of semantics , these meanings may be stored as the sense definitions of a machine-readable dictionary , or by some other representation .
18 In so far as the functions performed by Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih , apparently successively , may be characterized as an " office " from an Institutional point of view , as it were it seems not to have been continuous , however , at least on the evidence of the biographical sources .
19 Acknowledging that more than one sort of link may be formed as a result of even simple conditioning procedures helps explain the way in which these effects show in behaviour .
20 It may be defined as a constitutive process for the development of some subject in and through the medium of culture , which is the form taken by all social productions .
21 a budget may be defined as a quantitative and financial plan of the activity to be pursued during the financial year to achieve that year 's objectives .
22 A social class may be defined as a psychological-social grouping , within which social , economic , educational and political interests tend to coincide .
23 An assignment may be defined as a mini project or as any problem solving exercise with clear guidelines and of specified length .
24 ‘ For sociological purposes a city may be defined as a relatively large , dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals . ’
25 A CONSTITUTION MAY BE DEFINED as a body of laws , customs , and conventions that define the composition and powers of organs of the state and that regulate the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen .
26 A court school , such as Alcuin led , may be defined as an institution for harnessing learning to political purposes , all kinds of learning including biblical learning .
27 Special Service may be defined as an action ranging between but not including the work of the single agent on the one hand , and on the other , the full-scale combined operation .
28 In the words of Dirac a state of motion of a system may be defined as an undisturbed motion that is restricted by as many conditions or data as are theoretically possible without mutual interference or contradiction .
29 A contract may be defined as an agreement enforceable at law .
30 I shall begin by concentrating on the ego , which may be defined as an agency of the personality differentiated from the wholly unconscious id by its responsibilities for the control of voluntary movement .
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