Example sentences of "[adv] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly may do it |
| 2 | However , it is still possible that hoteliers , nightclub owners etc. may decide to change their facilities making them permanently unavailable . |
| 3 | A less severe cough , cold , throat or stomach upset etc. may need a dose 2 or 3 times a day . |
| 4 | However , please bear in mind that hoteliers , shopkeepers and night club owners etc. may wish to maintain or improve their facilities or even take a break themselves . |
| 5 | Failing an admission a question to the defendant such as ‘ Where did you intend to go when you got into your car ? ’ or ‘ What were you trying to do ? ’ etc. may help to prove that he had an intention to drive as discussed at point ( B ) 2 ante . |
| 6 | The ‘ Alterations , Additions ’ etc. may have been corrections to bring closer into line with happenings on stage a publication seriously misleading as first issued — difficult to sell , when word got round . |
| 7 | The infrastructure of permanent residential quarters , offices etc. may come later , but it might transpire that a ‘ floating base ’ would be more cost effective and enable better geographical coverage . |
| 8 | To use the term more widely may reduce the likelihood that the pupil will be encouraged to use any vision , however slight it may be . |
| 9 | Histamine acting locally may enhance the proliferation of tumours arising within the stomach . |
| 10 | The Board fixes minimum rates , although farmers and farm workers locally may agree higher rates and in practice this is fairly widespread — in 1976 , 94 per cent of full-time male farm workers were paid more than the minimum . |
| 11 | It is usually unilateral but rarely may occur bilaterally . |
| 12 | Be aware , too , that behaving this assertively may get agreement from people and acquiescence but it may not get dedication and loyalty . |
| 13 | Most fatalities from T. canis infection occur during the pulmonary phase , and pups which have been heavily infected transplacentally may die within a few days of birth . |
| 14 | Those that sought to grow organically may have faced fewer problems of this type . |
| 15 | I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good . |
| 16 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 17 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
| 18 | Another care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great forbidder safe with all his spies about him . |
| 19 | Conversely , circulating eosinophils have been shown to be negative , whereas they apparently may express L1 after extravasation into inflamed tissue . |
| 20 | The original base figure which is adjusted annually may bear no relation to the true needs of the department . |
| 21 | This year , those who succeed in clawing their way inside may find a surprising exhibition , a forum for creators intent on using the museum as an instrument of social change for gays , lesbians , blacks and other aggrieved minorities . |
| 22 | A British official said : ‘ These all may seem very petty , but they would have very adverse consequences for voluntary bodies . ’ |
| 23 | Under these circumstances , a growing obsession , a hormonal surge or both together may intensify his or her craving for sexual re-determination . |
| 24 | It is not uncommon , however , for these patients to present initially with watery diarrhoea and lower abdominal pain which together may suggest a colonic based pathology , especially if other clues like iron deficiency , folate deficiency , or features of splenic atrophy are either not immediately evident , or overlooked . |
| 25 | The General Assembly made the following commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi : ‘ We renew the covenant to be keepers of one another , to honour the Treaty , its obligations and promises , that justice and peace may cover our land that our life together may grow in new forms of partnership . ’ |
| 26 | In some parts of Pomerania the Poles and Kaszubians together may have outnumbered the Germans , but along the river Notec there were no Kaszubians at all , and German settlers planted in a block by the Prussian Colonisation Commission outnumbered Poles by two to one . |
| 27 | Although a number together may overcome this , there can be problems of intonation and ensemble . |
| 28 | There is a possibility that applying an incentive scheme to one parameter only may attach undue importance to it . |
| 29 | It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth . |
| 30 | Not only may access to training and development opportunities have been restricted , but the focus of Disabled people 's creative work may differ . |