Example sentences of "[adv] may [verb] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | On the other hand many urban areas have sizable gardens and so may attract a greater number and/or diversity of common passerines than were once found here . |
| 6 | Solid bases give the firmest support so may need a springier mattress to compensate . |
| 7 | Fourth , the discount houses collectively may offer a smaller quantity of bills for sale than apparently needed by the market as a whole , either because they take a different ( to the Bank ) view of the overall shortage in the market or because of the relationship in the market between the short term interest rates at which they fund themselves and the relevant bill yields . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It also may have a significant effect on the problems of Lloyd 's . |
| 13 | If the pollution fails to disperse , the bans which take place from 6am to 8pm may become a permanent feature . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You too may have a difficult path to tread . |
| 17 | The way we are feeling mentally may have a direct effect on our shape . |
| 18 | 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 . |