Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week the concern may be to assess a new approach to the pay round in response to a union proposal . |
| 2 | We may be seeing a reflection of a more widespread export of consumables . |
| 3 | The Army may be seeing a smaller throughput of students , but its four core course levels remain and , ironically , new courses are constantly being introduced to meet changing needs . |
| 4 | At best , they may be granted a specific validity , as experts in feminine psychology . |
| 5 | The section provides that a non-individual person may be granted a licence in its own name and that of the person responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises . |
| 6 | From the folk art section may be noted a collection of 25 weathervanes , including an 18th-century gilded and carved pine example from Portland , Maine ( est. $100,000–150,000 ; £51,500–77,300 ) . |
| 7 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 8 | Indeed , the possibility that he may actually have known Rodrigo can not be ruled out , and offers a tantalizing possibility that we may be reading a first-hand account . |
| 9 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 10 | To act in such a way is wrong because the employee may be denied a full opportunity to respond to every point being made against him . |
| 11 | It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 . |
| 12 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 13 | If you are arranging your mortgage via a mortgage broker and you do not choose an endowment-linked scheme , you may be charged a fee for his or her services . |
| 14 | If the business fails to keep proper records it may be charged a financial penalty . |
| 15 | However , those who self-certify their loans may be charged a slightly increased rate . |
| 16 | According to Petrobras the state-owned oil company and largest corporation in the southern hemisphere some $8.7 billion in dollars and cruzeiros have been invested in the Campos Basin alone and there are signs that the state may be taking a similar line in developing Brazil 's gas resources for energy . |
| 17 | While political organization among lesbians and gays may be taking a low profile , it is not true to say that the clocks have been turned back . |
| 18 | HAPPY MONDAYS may be taking a two-year break after their forthcoming UK tour , according to singer Shaun Ryder ( right ) . |
| 19 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 20 | ‘ Although I ca n't help wondering whether you may be creating a tool which could be dangerously used . |
| 21 | Some students may be creating a videotaped drama , in which case numbers and technicians must be calculated and provided . |
| 22 | For instance , Falmouth may be called a tourist resort , although it is also a shopping centre for local residents , and it has dockyards , a fishing industry and some light industry . |
| 23 | This may be called a chain reaction . |
| 24 | That is , the appearance of AB being shorter than BC is not what may be called a ‘ perspectival appearance ’ . |
| 25 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 26 | It is believed moreover to be the case that , as God , Jesus had what may be called a trans-historical knowledge . |
| 27 | One causes tallness , and may be called A ; the other causes shortness , and may be called a . |
| 28 | Lastly , I have tried to show tat the mechanical properties of many polymers may be described using the concepts and terminology of composites , so indicating the usefulness of what may be called a theory of materials . |
| 29 | Usually accompanied by a village or hamlet , such a caput may be called a villa regalis , but the terms aula , mansio and maerdref are also used . |
| 30 | In the last decade of the century , therefore , democracy and what may be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ has become a political principle almost universally subscribed to , though its actual practice still remains very imperfect in large areas of the world . |