Example sentences of "it may [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( If all the salad is not used immediately , it may be kept refrigerated — without the shredded lettuce — for up to 2 days . ) |
| 32 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 33 | It may be communicated to the court in the following ways : ( a ) Oral testimony Witnesses may be called to give oral evidence to the court . |
| 34 | Failure to comply with any of the foregoing requirements will result in your appeal being put to a Roll of the Court of Criminal Appeal when it may be dismissed . |
| 35 | Firstly , legal aid is not available for libel , but it may be granted for malicious falsehood . |
| 36 | Where personal service of a document is required , it may be served by a court bailiff , or if the person to be served attends and is present at court , or in the court office , by any other officer of the court . |
| 37 | A fixed date summons , originating application , petition or appeal should be served not less than twenty-one clear days before the return day , but on the plaintiff satisfying the district judge by affidavit that a defendant is about to remove , it may be served at any time before the return day ( Ord 7 , r 10(5) , Ord 3 , rr 4 – 6 ) . |
| 38 | If the party obliged to make a payment as the result of an expert 's decision does not do so , he may , if he is an individual , be served with a statutory demand under s268 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; or , if the defaulting party is a company , it may be served with a written demand under s123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 39 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 40 | It may be concluded that without the experience of events since 1979 , this ‘ faith in the possibility of change ’ could not have become the guiding principle of the prisons . |
| 41 | It may be concluded , therefore , that the different contexts are selecting discrete senses of bank . |
| 42 | It may be concluded that the developing embryos and foetus show a pronounced sensitivity to the induction of malformations by radiation , particularly during the main phase of organogenesis . |
| 43 | The majority of actual examples investigated by Johnson revealed profiles of the second type , so that it may be concluded that much of the material forming the bar is eroded from the sea floor . |
| 44 | It may be concluded , therefore , that the advantages which Categories 1 and 2 afford to the prosecution are by no means as great as they might at first sight appear to be . |
| 45 | It may be concluded that the problem of consent is unlikely to vanish whatever means are adopted to deal with it . |
| 46 | In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific . |
| 47 | The law permits detention of pupils by teachers ; provided it is not excessive or unreasonable , in accordance with the test laid down in R v Hopley ( 1860 ) ( above ) , it may be imposed without risk of liability for false imprisonment being incurred . |
| 48 | Delinquency , according to this view , is not an expression or contrivance of a particular kind of personality ; it may be imposed upon any kind of personality if circumstances favour intimate association with delinquent models . |
| 49 | In short , we should call the offence reckless driving , but the occurrence of death , even though it may be regarded as bad luck , should aggravate the sentence . |
| 50 | There are many reasons why it may be regarded as helpful to gather information about a child 's language , and the uses to which any formal assessment results may be put will influence decisions about how assessments can best be carried out . |
| 51 | In addition to rule-making , thereby reducing the degree of uncertainty confronting workers and management , it can also be a vehicle for resolving disputes , a power relationship and , where it takes place at enterprise or plant level , it may be regarded as a form of participation for workers or their representatives ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 52 | Bulgaria was an autonomous though tributary principality under the suzerainty of the sultan ; it may be regarded as an independent state although a weak one . |
| 53 | It may be regarded as a set of techniques , rather than a theoretically predetermined system for the writing of linguistic ‘ rules ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 55 | There is nothing improper in this process ; it may be regarded as a natural part of political negotiation in a pluralist society . |
| 56 | Although some form of IV estimator seems required , prior to 1987 Q3 the best instrument is the actual variable itself ( since it may be regarded as an exogenous variable ) . |
| 57 | Similarly , the notion of social development through increasing differentiation and individuation has had a considerable place in later sociological theories , although its political implications have been judged in diverse ways ; from one aspect social differentiation may be seen as creating a mutual dependence of individuals and groups which is a fundamental element in a stable democratic system , while from another aspect ( as in Durkheim 's theory ) it may be regarded as a danger to the political order if it leads to excessive individualism , and then needs to be checked by a moral consensus embodied in the state . |
| 58 | It may be regarded as an infrastructure element for the movement of information , in the same way as roads and railways control and permit the movement of people and goods . |
| 59 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 60 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |