Example sentences of "may [be] taken [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , finally , there is a statute of limitations bar , in that no action may be taken under the section more than five years after the date of the last transaction which is the subject of the violation . |
| 2 | The significance of an offer of compensation is that it may be taken as a token of the defendant 's remorse , and that it redresses the private loss of the victim , and to that extent and no other it plays a part in the sentencing exercise . |
| 3 | Geography in Humanities Combined may be taken as a major , joint or minor subject with : Asian Studies , English , European Studies , French , History , Irish , Media Studies , Philosophy , or Theatre Studies ; or , as a major subject only , with German . |
| 4 | Many of the theories may be taken as a kind of realignment of astronomical perspectives ; a process of taxonomic refinement . |
| 5 | Something said in jest , quizzically , sarcastically , as a roundabout way of asking a question , may be taken as a literal statement of fact . |
| 6 | A good deal of what he wrote may be taken as a rejection of the ‘ liberal interpretation of history ’ , and indeed of the ‘ liberal humanist tradition ’ in literature ; nevertheless the centre of his story is the Ring and the maxim that ‘ power corrupts ’ , a concept unimpeachably modern , democratic , anti-though not un-heroic . |
| 7 | We can see that age of acquisition may be taken as a predictive factor for current sign language training but that it is not a pure , uncontaminated variable . |
| 8 | Although the criteria may be unclear , they have been applied impartially to the three extracts , and to this extent , the figures may be taken as a reliable guide . |
| 9 | It may be that our first target should be Romance elements and , if so , our victory in the recent war may be taken as a good augury . |
| 10 | It may be taken as a general rule , subject to exceptions , not applicable to this case , that the promise must be co-extensive with the consideration . |
| 11 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 12 | The magnitude may be taken as a measure of the inflationary bias which is imparted to the system by non-competitive forces , the most obvious of these forces being the influence of trades unions in the wage bargaining process . |
| 13 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 14 | An afterthought , but one which may be taken as a portent of the future , was that Marks was not deterred by this initial failure . |
| 15 | The way a poet 's mind works when he is being most a poet may be taken as the model of the process that operates as democracy in the political field and as education in the psychological field … |
| 16 | If L1 is sufficiently large so that unc then unc may be taken as the total primary current I1 , leading to the relationship |
| 17 | The buoyancy force is provided by δρ c ( which is , in the first place , the difference between upgoing and downgoing fingers , but , in view of the above discussion , may be taken as the difference between top and bottom ) . |
| 18 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 19 | The comments of one development officer may be taken as an indication of how they felt about their workers , and about what characterises a good support worker : Interviewer : |
| 20 | A surplus may be taken as an indication of a country 's ability to service its external debt , whereas a deficit might imply , if not corrected or offset by capital inflows , future debt servicing problems . |
| 21 | The near absence of true hoards ( deposits of coin or metalwork in the ground not associated with burial ) in early Anglo-Saxon England until the seventh century may be taken as an important indication both of the role of hoarding in other societies and of the economic organisation of this period . |
| 22 | This relatively rapid linguistic change in Belfast has accompanied its rise in population from about 120,000 in 1860 to nearly half a million in the early years of this century , and Belfast may be taken as an exemplar of linguistic change in fast-growing communities ( while rural towns and villages adhere to older patterns ) . |
| 23 | The difference between the time values for calls and puts may be taken as an indicator of market sentiment about the future progress of the share price . |
| 24 | In addition , elementary Dutch may be taken as an option . |
| 25 | The output of the a.m. tuner may be taken to the ‘ auxiliary ’ input of almost any hi-fi audio amplifier . |
| 26 | Provisions not identified below as being required by the Companies Act or as being necessary to ensure a practice 's ability to comply with the Rules are simply suggested by way of guidance ; practitioners should be aware that other approaches may be taken to the matters covered by such provisions . |
| 27 | Provisions not identified below as being required by the Companies Act or as being necessary to ensure a practice 's ability to comply with the Rules are simply suggested by way of guidance ; practitioners should be aware that other approaches may be taken to the matters covered by such provisions . |
| 28 | Yet the Imperial side of the argument — whatever view may be taken of the fiscal , economic and domestic — would not stand up to examination . |
| 29 | In some interview-skills courses , videos may be taken of the trainees themselves as they roleplay , and then these are discussed . |
| 30 | The MA(Honours) in Arabic may be taken with a wide variety of secondary subjects , while there are also a number of joint degrees linking Arabic with appropriate subjects in Arts and Social Sciences . |