Example sentences of "may [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some weaving yarns , for example chenille and mohair may feel much harsher when woven than they would if knitted by hand or on a chunky machine . |
| 2 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 3 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 4 | It also may bring much lower returns , both economic , political and ( in a bureaucratic framework ) promotional , than spectacular breakthroughs in irrigated rice or wheat , for example . |
| 5 | ( This process , incidentally , may begin much earlier than many secondary teachers suppose . |
| 6 | The patient who was self-employed with his own business before his illness may have much greater financial difficulties than the employed worker . |
| 7 | whereas some processes may have much lower running costs . |
| 8 | There are other features that may have much earlier origins than is generally believed . |
| 9 | SIR , — Dr Parmet and colleagues ' ( April 24 , p 1057 ) demonstration of venous emboli detected during knee arthroplasty illustrates the use of a technique that may have much wider applications in the study of embolism . |
| 10 | In general , someone with food intolerance will respond to an elimination diet within a week , whereas someone with candidiasis may take much longer to respond to an anti- Candida diet — the response is also more gradual and less dramatic . |
| 11 | This type of competition may take much longer to judge as the judges will have to look at all the entries . |
| 12 | The way in which Aquitaine was divided up and alloted to the northern kingdoms may owe much to the nature of the Frankish conquest of the area in the first three decades of the sixth century ; but that is a topic on which we have scarcely any information . |
| 13 | If Labour wins , they may go much lower . |
| 14 | Interest rates may go much lower . |
| 15 | The level of detail may seem much the same as in a catalogue raisonné , but the stress falls in a different way . |
| 16 | Problems which loom very large to ‘ managers ’ may seem much less important to the ‘ managed ’ . |
| 17 | The eyes may reveal much . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the sensitising effect of extensive nociceptive stimulation from surgery may prove much more difficult to block than the limited chemical or thermal stimuli used in animal models of pain . |
| 19 | Mathematical ideas of space and shape and comparisons will have been involved in the making and the teacher may learn much from observation . |
| 20 | You may learn much about the hobby from each other . |
| 21 | No doubt they will find the experience a tad disorienting , but if they manage to avoid the marauding aurochs by day and the preying sabre-toothed tigers by night , they may find much in their new environment that is congenial . |