Example sentences of "may [adv] [be] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can confirm that we are satisfied ( as we are required to be under the regulations ) that Growing Business plc may properly be regarded as , using the technical term introduced by the regulations , a ‘ corporate finance client ’ . |
| 2 | Without doubt , the proposals may properly be described as controversial . |
| 3 | This modified approach may only be employed where the client has agreed to the terms of and countersigned a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 4 | The ‘ feel good ’ factor may only be jolted when you come to a ‘ Y ’ junction and curse that thick rear side panel , obstructing the over-the-shoulder rear three-quarter view . |
| 5 | While in the context of the prohibition of quantitative restrictions and measures equivalent thereto there is express provision for national safeguard measures , it is clear that both under Article 36 of the EEC Treaty and under the theory of the protection of mandatory requirements , national measures may only be justified where the matter at issue is not governed by provisions of Community law . |
| 6 | You should select of the following options which may only be done when the combination of old and new mail is not zero : — |
| 7 | If during repairs , further underlying damage is found , this damage may only be accepted as coming within the cover of the policy if it is directly related to the incident giving rise to the claim . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) An order under this section in respect of any costs may only be made if — ( a ) an order for costs would be made in the proceedings apart from this Act ; ( b ) as respects the costs incurred in a court of first instance , those proceedings were instituted by the assisted party and the court is satisfied that the unassisted party will suffer severe financial hardship unless the order is made ; and ( c ) in any case , the court is satisfied that it is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . |
| 9 | The defence of " fair comment " may only be sustained if the comment is on a matter of public interest . |
| 10 | Thus attention focusing may only be observed where there is a well-defined task which is regarded as important by the subject . |
| 11 | A fundamental band in an IR spectrum may only be observed if there is an interaction between the electric vector of the incident radiation and the oscillating dipole due to the corresponding vibration . |
| 12 | Clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer : ( a ) believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them : ( i ) to cause physical injury to himself or another ; ( ii ) to damage property ; ( iii ) to interfere with evidence ; ( iv ) to assist him to escape ; or ( b ) has reasonable grounds for believing that they may be evidence relating to an offence . |
| 13 | The package manager may only be changed when the package has been approved or after the DCs have been aborted using option 2.7.0 — Abort DC . |
| 14 | Such documents may only be issued as outlined above or if they are exempted . |
| 15 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 16 | The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success . |
| 17 | It may perhaps be questioned whether such restrictions were necessary , since a procession is capable of causing disruption whatever the purpose of those organising it may happen to be . |
| 18 | Or counsel may suggest , again with the very greatest respect , that a certain decision may perhaps be reconsidered if the point arises again before a court having power to overrule it ; meanwhile , it can be distinguished on the facts before the present court . |
| 19 | It follows that a singularity may normally be considered as occurring only at a boundary of space-time . |
| 20 | For any given level of complex organization , satisfying explanations may normally be attained if we peel the hierarchy down one or two layers from our starting layer , but not more . |
| 21 | Anger , which may not be expressed because of personality factors , such as excessive control , or fear of the consequences . |
| 22 | Ingleston ( 1986 ) , discussing an updated surgical dressings technique , declares that masks are not needed , while Ayton ( 1985 ) questions the use of masks even in theatre and says , ‘ if there is good ventilation , the levels of airborne contamination may not be altered whether masks are used or not ’ . ] |
| 23 | Although his work may not be rated as true poetry by the purists , no one else has ever caught the spell of the Yukon as well as Robert W. Service . |
| 24 | Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom . |
| 25 | According to her , aggression ‘ involves the intention to hurt or emerge superior to others , does not necessarily involve physical injury ( violence ) and may or may not be regarded as being underpinned by different kinds of motives ’ . |
| 26 | And , although progress in conventional careers may not be regarded as achievable , clearly certain things are , as I will now show . |
| 27 | Though there seems to be no public law right of consultation , the issue may or may not be regarded as germane , depending on other points of law in the case . |
| 28 | Their political activities may not be perceived as very significant and useful by the bulk of the membership . |
| 29 | Even this can affect refugees adversely — their stories of torture may not be believed when they apply for asylum . |
| 30 | Strongly held beliefs at the individual level may not be maintained when describing health at the societal level and vice versa . |