Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |
| 2 | Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected . |
| 3 | At Boots ( retail division ) , however , if employees ' bridging loans extend beyond six months , they may be charged the current building society interest rate — usually a higher rate . |
| 4 | A second type of critic may be called the progressive . |
| 5 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 6 | He is the head of a great Government office — what may be called the secretarial office ; he is ‘ the King 's Secretary of State for all departments ’ ; whatever writing has to be done in the King 's name is done by the Chancellor or through him and his officers . |
| 7 | The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours . |
| 8 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 9 | The two most important catchphrases , certainly by the 1890s , were the ‘ law of evolution ’ and what may be called the spirit of organization . |
| 10 | The greatest problem facing schools , now as always , is how to ensure the best possible service to present pupils ( this may be called the steady-state operation ) , while at the same time , developing the creativity which alone will allow us to continue to adapt to change in the future . |
| 11 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 12 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 13 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 14 | The relationship with what may be called the NWICO movement needs both study and experimentation . |
| 15 | He held what may be called the ‘ thought → speech → thought ’ or ‘ translation ’ theory of communication . |
| 16 | Such , too , was the theme that intensified in their fiction towards middle age , which may be called the agony of a lost Eden . |
| 17 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 18 | These distinctions , highlighted in Fig. 1 , may be called the dualisms of normativism and occupy a central place in normativist thought . |
| 19 | The basic duty provides us with the fundamental rule of conduct which may be called the rule of law ; viz. , that we must not only not injure , but must also work to promote , social solidarity . |
| 20 | There is a catastrophic ‘ implosion ’ , which may be called the opposite of an explosion , followed by a shock-wave which literally blows the star apart in what is called a supernova outburst . |
| 21 | Eliot certainly appreciated Hayward 's caustic wit and was himself , according to Hayward , " … a connoisseur of the ridiculous , an ironical commentator on human folly , a lover of allusive quotation ( particularly from the dicta of Sherlock Holmes and other eminent detectives ) , and a passionate observer of what may be called the Bouvard et Pécuchet way of life " . |
| 22 | This inner ode may be called the kernel mode , in which case the intermediate ode is called the supervisor mode . |
| 23 | From another point of view it may be called the inner shrine . |
| 24 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 25 | The element in a construction which interacts directly with an element or elements outside the construction may be called the semantic head of the construction . |
| 26 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 27 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 28 | ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) . |
| 29 | Now here is the answer of a gentleman who may be called the Discerning Dilettante . |
| 30 | Sometimes it is convenient to give the line some thickness and so what may be called the " cooked spaghetti " model is used . |