Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be tempted to poach some of his promising-looking freshmen to strengthen Goldie , or even the Blue boat . |
| 2 | The UCTA 1977 makes some clauses wholly ineffective , but the drafter or the client may be tempted to include such terms in order to deter claims , relying on the fact that many of the persons against whom the contract will be enforced will be ignorant of the law . |
| 3 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 4 | The drafter may be tempted to overcome this problem by using " and/or " , as follows : If the Buyer fails to pay any instalment promptly in accordance with the terms of this contract the Seller may terminate the contract and/or recover goods already delivered and/or retain all payments already made . |
| 5 | Bills then go through four stages in each House : a ‘ first reading ’ , which simply involves the formal presentation of the Bill ; a ‘ second reading ’ , at which there is likely to be a large-scale debate on the basic principles of the Bill ; a ‘ committee stage ’ , when the legislation is examined in detail ( normally by a small ‘ standing committee ’ and not by the whole House ) ; and a ‘ report stage ’ and ‘ third reading ’ , at which the Bill that emerges from the committee is approved , but may be re-amended to undo some of the actions of the committee . |
| 6 | Just a few examples may be cited to highlight this problem . |
| 7 | Of course some boys may be asked to perform some or all of these tasks , but I think that ( for historical rather than biological reasons ) the task of substitute-mothering is more likely to devolve upon a girl than upon a boy who is in a similar position within the family . |
| 8 | Most indexing terms in a thesaurus are ‘ uniterms ’ or single-concept terms , although in some instances a deliberate decision may be made to include some multi-concept terms . |
| 9 | Individual constant-k filter sections suffer from insufficient attenuation just outside the pass band and , although several identical constant-k sections may be cascaded to overcome this drawback , the resulting filter is rather unwieldy . |
| 10 | The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this . |
| 11 | Here we shall move straight to looking at how such principles may be extended to encompass this challenge . |
| 12 | There 's a slide projector at the back of the hall which I can control from the front so I may be aiming to get some slides for you instead of the overhead projector . |
| 13 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 14 | Equally , speaker A may be said to use more of variant X in situation Y than in situation Z , rather than categorically to use X in either situation . |
| 15 | On the positive side , market penetration may be said to represent some sort of indicator . |
| 16 | An observer may be led to accept some observation statement on the basis of a perception and yet that observation statement may be false . |
| 17 | Once it has occurred , the analyst connects the feature in question with his impression of or feeling for the whole work , and may be led to modify this as a result . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the hearer may be intended to reconsider this entry , to expand the context made accessible by run to in order to recover further contextual effects . |
| 19 | For instance , if one paragraph discusses the history of World War II and the preceding paragraph discusses the history of World War I , then the second paragraph may be modified to include some introductory sentence such as , ‘ The next world war … ‘ . |
| 20 | Birse says under Labour local council receipts from the sale of council houses may be released to enable more council houses to be built , and this could help the industry , particularly local builders . |
| 21 | Mary Douglas of Ulva in a closed circulation document states : ‘ They ( teachers ) may be required to arrange all the usual functions such as whist drives , jumble sales , Hallowe'en and Christmas parties , run the public meeting , act as polling officer , sign pension and unemployment forms , give references and even witness wills . ’ |
| 22 | A partner who does make a profit through such competition may be required to forfeit such profit and pay the profit over to the partnership . |
| 23 | Remember also , that a licence may be required to use this type of device since it is not handheld — if in doubt , consult your local water company . |
| 24 | Another disadvantage of the Building Notice procedure is that if your work is to be financed by a bank or building society , then you may be required to produce some form of documentary proof that your proposal is satisfactory when you are negotiating for your loan . |
| 25 | Children over the age of 16 and other members of the family provided with a service may be required to pay any charges themselves . |
| 26 | Additional information may be required to provide such solutions , and data structures for the effective storage and retrieval of this information are investigated . |
| 27 | To avoid customers being prejudiced in this way , a firm must not effect a contingent liability transaction unless it can show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands : ( 1 ) The circumstances under which he may be required to provide any margin ; ( 2 ) Particulars of the form in which the margin may be provided ; ( 3 ) Particulars of the steps which the firm may be entitled to take if the customer fails to provide the required margin ; ( 4 ) That failure by the customer to meet a margin call may lead to the firm closing out his position after time limits specified by the firm , and that the firm will be required to close out the position in any event after a period of five business days ; and ( 5 ) That circumstances other than failure to provide margin may lead to the customer 's position being closed out with prior reference to him . |
| 28 | Subject to making such searches as may be required to obtain such affidavits and documents as it has been necessary to bespeak , the Filing and Record Department will send the listed documents to the county named in the Order . |
| 29 | Event and fault-trees can not only define the minimum response the system has to make to ensure a successful outcome follows an initiating event , and indicate where additional , ‘ redundant ’ equipment may be required to ensure this , but they are also valuable in showing up system sensitivities . |
| 30 | The officer(s) who actually cautioned her may be required to prove such caution(s) to the court . |