Example sentences of "[noun] may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clue to the violence of the break-up may lie also in the balance of weaponry inside Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Getting such an installation — currently available for some forty GA aircraft types — approved by the CAA may add considerably to the cost of hardware and labour , as the British Gliding Association has been finding out . |
| 3 | Achieving cultures , based on principles of Self-help and free enterprise , were characteristic of the USA and north Europe during the period 1800 to 1960. purchasing patterns may alter significantly from the traditional roots , emphasising personal material possession and display , the possession of prestigious homes and objects , " one-upmanship " etc . |
| 4 | The arts and the heritage may benefit particularly from the latter . |
| 5 | In principle , it would seem that the performance of a genetic algorithm may depend significantly on the order of the basic data in each string . |
| 6 | This inbuilt coloration may alter slowly during the lifetime of the fish , depending on its environment . |
| 7 | The polypary may occur at the end of a stalk , giving the coral the appearance of a toadstool , or alternatively , in encrusting forms , the polypary may rest directly on the substrate , attaching itself by rootlike processes as the coral grows . |
| 8 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 9 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 10 | The disk is round , up to 6 mm diameter covered by spinelets with a crown of many points , 9 or more , the spinelets may extend on to the dorsal part of the arm . |
| 11 | Furthermore , different voice settings typically characterise different languages , and these settings may carry over into the pronunciation of a second language ( Laver 1991 : 248 ) . |
| 12 | The increasing domestic and industrial use of a number of stable chlorine-containing compounds has given rise to claims that these compounds may diffuse upwards into the stratosphere where they are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine which act to destroy ozone through a complex chain of chemical reactions ( Crutzen , 1974 ; Molina and Rowland , 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Thus your machine may start up with the HAL 9000 self-test ( ‘ I am completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly ’ ) from Kubrick 's 2001 , or ‘ Space , the Final Frontier ’ , the striking lead-in to Star Trek , or ‘ We 're not in Kansas anymore , Toto ’ from The Wizard of Oz . |
| 14 | At the other extreme , language work may consist mostly of the provision of stimuli to ‘ creative writing ’ . |
| 15 | This work may start early in the day as is local practice and can occur at any time of the season . |
| 16 | What is implied by the notion of the super-ego is that the child may react less to the actual external forms of its parents , and more to its own projection of them , interiorized as its moral order . |
| 17 | Without due consideration of both RECHAR and ERDF regulations for the 1993–94 financial year , the Council may lose out through the competitive grant application procedure . |
| 18 | Hypnosis may work better outside the laboratory ; we do not know because no one using hypnosis for the police has done properly controlled tests , although one American police hypnotist insists that hypnosis is helpful 90.1 per cent of the time . |
| 19 | But now other victims like Damaris may miss out on the help they need . |
| 20 | Regionals tend to have natural franchises and are likely to get the best pickings of whatever expanded powers commercial banks may get out of the pending reform of the financial system , once Congress gets round to letting it happen . |
| 21 | Solent look booked for the Division Three title but the battle for second place may run on until the final game . |
| 22 | Every day the Ethiopian planes may swoop down from the sky . |
| 23 | The purchaser may discover either at the outset of negotiations or from its due diligence exercise that the ownership of the assets it wishes to buy is distributed amongst various companies in the vendor 's group . |
| 24 | Alternatively , foreign yachts may go directly to the Royal Suva Yacht Club and clear immigration there . |
| 25 | The ‘ feel ’ of redness may derive ultimately from the ameoba 's aversive reaction to red light . |
| 26 | In some cases appeals may proceed directly from the High Court ( not from county courts or tribunals of first instance ) to the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Others are bound to arise ; not least because , as the Soviet Union cracks apart , documents and material taken there after the war may drift back into the hands of historians . |
| 28 | • Nocturnal or crepuscular ( evening-time ) fish may miss out on the food if you do not give them their rations just before lights out . |
| 29 | Please note that the guests may arrive late to the hotel . |
| 30 | A party spokeswoman , Lourdes Ortiz , remarked : ‘ It does n't seem possible , but the workers may vote again for the Socialist machine . ’ |