Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [det] " 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 | Corporations may be granted these devices , but they are normally permitted only to counties , cities and councils of standing ; and companies and institutions of an important national nature . |
| 3 | It may be noted that |
| 4 | No shot is fired and no further shots may be fired that game — the gun is now useless . |
| 5 | Against these traditional and widespread justifications for adverse possession may be compared some modern views against squatters . |
| 6 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Churches were burned , priests and peasants put to death , and the Saxon nationalists ( if they may be called such ) were further strengthened by the fact that Charles did not muster a Frankish army until the summer of 779 . |
| 10 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
| 11 | Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink : the waiter may be gone some time . |
| 12 | HE MAY BE GONE SOME TIME |
| 13 | It is impossible here to enter into the details of this controversy , but it may be noticed that |
| 14 | It is also appropriate to introduce the new coordinates r and θ instead of t and z given by ( 13.24 ) where it may be noticed that , using the previous notation , . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The landlord is usually the party who settles the form of the lease ( albeit it may be amended many times before execution ) and most of the covenants are inserted for his protection . |
| 19 | Such phrases may be repeated many times with slight variations in each repetition , so that the phrase at the end of the sequence is quite different to that at its beginning . |
| 20 | This action may be repeated several times which is why fluorescent lighting ‘ flashes ’ when first switched on . |
| 21 | Talks may be accelerated this summer when Unilever 's Sir Michael Angus becomes Whitbread 's chairman . |
| 22 | Once established , the pancakes and solid sheet ice are subject to lifting by swell , which may be generated many miles away in open water , and to lateral pressures from winds ; sections split into floes which raft over each other , or form pressure ridges along their edges . |
| 23 | Individuals lower down the organisation may be given little responsibility with few decisions delegated down the organisation to them . |
| 24 | These preliminary definitions of concepts may be given some more substance by considering the relations between them , and also their relations with the concept of economic class . |
| 25 | Well thing is people are moving to an area they may be given some information by their company but |
| 26 | So lower ability children in British schools may be given less language training . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For example , rubber may be extended some three or four hundred per cent . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Work may be done that may be to no avail . |