Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday have a problem with David Hirst injured but they may make take Roy Wegerle ( Blackburn ) on loan . |
| 2 | But RSI sufferes who 're hoping for some compensation from their employers are worried the Judge 's ruling may make harm their chances . |
| 3 | The Society 's slot at the Barbican Festival is at 2.15 p.m. on Sunday 28 May Do come — Dressed to work and support us in the ‘ Come and try it ’ session and cheer the NDT on . |
| 4 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 5 | The nurse may help promote sleep by reducing anxieties if possible and generally providing comfort — rearranging pillows or adjusting the backrest . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , some general , if brief , discussion of some of the more directly relevant philosophical issues may help clarify matters . |
| 7 | ‘ I get down on my knees every day and pray that this election may help change things . |
| 8 | At the simplest level , semantic features may help identify correct word senses in sentences such as : John hit the post with a ball |
| 9 | We have X-rays and details that were recorded during the conservation process which may help identify them . |
| 10 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | May help resolve remaining problems . |
| 12 | If it does exist the gene may help resolve some of the questions about how antibiotics work and give clues for new antibiotics . |
| 13 | For example it is reported that overstocking in litter-based poultry will result in an overloaded offensive litter ; whilst understocking may also be undesirable , since this may result in a dry and dusty litter which may help disperse the odour over a wide area , unless dust filters are installed . |
| 14 | For instance , if examples in which females play an active role appear as often as those in which the active person is male , this may help counteract the prevailing view in society that mathematics is primarily an activity for males . |
| 15 | Several newer techniques may help improve this situation such as the combination of exercise testing with doppler echocardiography and the measurement of ascending aortic blood flow acceleration . |
| 16 | Our programme may help improve your standards of service . |
| 17 | Mathematical modelling and epidemiological studies may help quantify risks in the meantime . |
| 18 | An encounter without real warmth , without loving feelings , but exciting in its strangeness , may help achieve his climax within the woman but will only reinforce the message of prison that life is simpler without feelings . |
| 19 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 20 | The following extract from my field notes — warts and all — recording a day 's work described by the field officer concerned as ‘ typical ’ of his district may help convey a picture of a pollution control officer 's job in an urban industrialized area ( rural officers are usually under less pressure of work ) . |
| 21 | A descriptive expression , it is argued , may help fix the reference of a name via some contingent characteristic of the object in question ( as is the case with " the author of Macbeth " ) , but it can not provide its " definition " . |
| 22 | They will learn of your choice with pride ; and the reflection of that pride may help protect them . |
| 23 | While it may help protect the existing curriculum against falling rolls it will also reduce the curricular decision-making capacity of the school . |
| 24 | To look at the enforcement of regulation may help refine some of the present conceptions of enforcement behaviour and organizational deviance , while regard for the enforcement of prohibitions may sharpen perspectives on the nature of traditional crime . |
| 25 | In the case of an article written by five authors , for example , the availability of one extra slot may work to the advantage of a colleague whose goodwill is valued but whose involvement with the project had been only marginal ; such circumstances may help create a dip in the number of articles with five authors ( figs 2 and 4 ) which further accentuates the peak at six authors . |
| 26 | At a more advanced workshop , tutors with a professional interest may help explain techniques if this is required , though in the first instance the rough-and-ready style of amateurish video pays off more dividends as it intimidates beginners less than a smoothly polished film , and conveys the sense of ‘ being there ’ to the viewers . |
| 27 | He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him . |
| 28 | A POST-MORTEM examination may help explain the shooting tragedy that killed the son of late Kung Fu star Bruce Lee on a U.S. movie set which has suffered a spate of accidents . |
| 29 | This ratio was relatively small , only 6,000 to 1 , which may help explain the early success of the environmental movement . ’ |
| 30 | Dudley Baxter 's statistics of income distribution in 1867 may help place the discussion in context . |