Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reward must be such as may give them that rank in society which so important a trust requires . |
| 2 | To some extent I can evade the issue by letting spontaneous inclination take its course , without allowing thought to intervene , so that my action is not chosen but caused ; but I am not an instinctive being like an animal , I have to choose , and on the position we are considering all imperatives are ungrounded , except such as may be derivable from ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 3 | For sons , on the other hand , socialization may be more in terms of broader , more stereotypical notions of masculinity such as may be manifested in horseplay at weekends or evenings , rather than in terms of the more specific feature of the father 's role at work , which may often be hidden from the male child . |
| 4 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 5 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 6 | ‘ 2(1) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , in any proceedings for contribution under section 1 above the amount of the contribution recoverable from any person shall be such as may be found by the court to be just and equitable having regard to the extent of that person 's responsibility for the damage in question . |
| 7 | Erm women are more likely to use the words such as may , might , possibly , perhaps which seem to be a little less forceful . |
| 8 | Close , intimate relationships such as may exist between marriage partners , are contrasted with those with other family members , friends and wider social contacts . |
| 9 | In tropical countries , where disease due to D. viviparus may occur intermittently , the epidemiology is presumably quite different and probably depends more on pasture contamination by carrier animals such as may occur during flooding when cattle congregate on damp , high areas , rather than on the prolonged survival of infected larvae . |
| 10 | On the 19th of May I was underneath the stage in the Globe . |
| 11 | those against may now vote |
| 12 | ALL the problems we shall be concerned with may be solved by calling upon one or more of the following equations : |
| 13 | There were a few light clouds about and a cooling breeze , and everywhere the hawthorns were heavy with may and the hedgerows thick with wild garlic , campion , bluebells and the little star-flowers of chickweed . |
| 14 | Is my twenty fifth of May tape at your house ? |
| 15 | Although panel interviews can seem intimidating , some of the questions you are most worried about may get forgotten because several people may be less well organized than one . |
| 16 | I got the dates wrong , it 's the thirtieth of may that 's two months after the end , so the amendment I 'm moving |