Example sentences of "it may [be] taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The long punters will have plenty of sport with that one though there could be considerable confusion at a quick kick where the revised law says that it may be taken without waiting for the kicker 's team to retire behind the ball — provided they do not become involved in play . |
| 3 | It may be taken up directly by a department ; or by a party prior to going into government ; or by a pressure group , whether an ad hoc group , a single interest group or other . |
| 4 | Law 27 , Penalty Kick states that : ‘ It may be taken by any player of the non-offending team and by any form of kick provided that the kicker , if holding the ball , must propel it out of his hands or , if the ball is on the ground , he must propel it a visible distance from the mark . |
| 5 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 6 | Although suicide is not , in itself , a psychiatric illness it may be taken as suggestive of impaired mental health . |
| 7 | But it may be taken for granted that nowadays the ‘ moral majority ’ is not a real ( electoral ) majority , just as a ‘ moral victory ’ ( the traditional euphemism for defeat ) is not a real victory . |
| 8 | When there is , as physically there must always be , an and effect in the Couette viscometer it may be taken into account by performing measurements with various values of the fluid column length l or by using the exact theory for a conical end derived by Mooney & Ewart ( 1934 ) and used in the Cone and Plate Viscometer . |
| 9 | It may be taken as fact that during the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries a number of joint muderris/muftiliks came into existence in the provinces . |
| 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 | It may be taken by any student as an outside subject , or may form the starting point for a single or joint honours MA in Scottish Ethnology . |
| 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 | If the buyer subsequently retains the goods without objection , it may be taken to have accepted the offer ; however , if within a reasonable time the buyer responds making clear that it does not accept the seller 's terms , it will make a counter offer and will not be bound by the seller 's terms . |
| 15 | Although the title is still undecided , we believe it may be taken from a track called Mad If You Do n't . |