Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 At best , they may be granted a specific validity , as experts in feminine psychology .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ) .
5 Some centres may be visited every week , some only once a year .
6 A grade outlets may be visited every fortnight , B grade every month and C grade once every three months .
7 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 .
8 A person who is involved in a criminal act at the time he is injured may be denied an action .
9 Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected .
10 If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee .
11 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 .
12 If the business fails to keep proper records it may be charged a financial penalty .
13 However , those who self-certify their loans may be charged a slightly increased rate .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 This may be called a chain reaction .
17 That is , the appearance of AB being shorter than BC is not what may be called a ‘ perspectival appearance ’ .
18 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 .
19 It is believed moreover to be the case that , as God , Jesus had what may be called a trans-historical knowledge .
20 One causes tallness , and may be called A ; the other causes shortness , and may be called a .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Hilton describes the story of man before the Fall as a time when reason was clear and bright , love directed only towards the goodness of God and man 's potential fulfilled as his soul " whilk may be called a made trinite was fulfilled in mynde and loue of vnmade blissed trinite whilk is oure lord " ( 43a.314. – 114 ) .
25 Which creature may be called a Bubbly Jock in Scotland ?
26 Thirteen , with which creature may be called a Bubbly Jock in Scotland ?
27 A second type of critic may be called the progressive .
28 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 ’ .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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