Example sentences of "[adv] may [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do no man any harm and perhaps may achieve a great good . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , the danger evident in some of the work produced here is that , like diffusionism , it tends to examine particular cultural items without an adequate appreciation of their social context , and so may give a distorted picture of what are essentially social phenomena . |
| 4 | Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness . |
| 5 | These proteins collectively may define a new class of transcription regulators that act , at least in part , through the recognition of structural rather than sequence specific domains . |
| 6 | The conservatism of the British financial institutions biasses them against ‘ high risk ’ investment projects which nonetheless may have a strategic importance for the development of the national economy . |
| 7 | Both in their different ways will give impressive witness to the importance of faith , but both may have a careless disregard for the foundations of faith . |
| 8 | CRAIG WHITEHEAD , a Nottingham City forward , was yesterday banned for eight matches for the elbow tackle which smashed Jason Ramshaw 's jaw , nose and cheekbone , and also may face a private prosecution on behalf of the 20-year-old Halifax player . |
| 9 | It also may have a significant effect on the problems of Lloyd 's . |
| 10 | If the pollution fails to disperse , the bans which take place from 6am to 8pm may become a permanent feature . |
| 11 | For example a semi-feudal landlord in a developing country today may employ a large number of retainers or family servants who will work for cash rent , labour rent or a proportion of the harvest on his land . |
| 12 | AD 600 onwards may reflect a growing demand for luxury goods and the scale of such transactions , and also the need to regularise the transactions . |
| 13 | You too may have a difficult path to tread . |
| 14 | The way we are feeling mentally may have a direct effect on our shape . |
| 15 | We do not wish to deny that the tendency to act aggressively may have a biological basis , that is be related to some heritable feature , and explicable from the point of view of evolutionary advantage . |