Example sentences of "[conj] it may [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outings can be for just one or two residents to go somewhere they want to , or it may involve the whole staff and all the residents . |
| 2 | Or it may represent the God-given confusion which represents the opportunity for maturity outside the safe confines of the Garden of Eden . |
| 3 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |
| 4 | The danger of this approach is that it may give the erroneous impression that companies are constantly embroiled in internecine strife , and that investors and creditors are habitually maltreated by dishonest or incompetent company controllers . |
| 5 | More important , selection over tens of generations can take traits well beyond their original values , and new mutations can contribute to the response , so that it may reflect the fundamental limits on the character , rather than just the initial covariances . |
| 6 | In addition , intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y increases gastric acid and pancreatic secretion in dogs , and it has been suggested that it may mediate the cephalic phase secretory response to feeding . |
| 7 | There may arise circumstances in which a doctor may use a form of treatment for his patient 's benefit aware of the fact that it may have the secondary effect of accelerating ( or run the risk of accelerating ) the patient 's death . |
| 8 | The country needs an economic saviour and it may choose the Irish chemical industry . |
| 9 | And it may endorse the British idea that the EC Court of Justice should have sanctions to enforce its judgments on reluctant countries ( one bit of supranationalism that Britain backs ) . |
| 10 | If K is large , then the algorithm will ’ jump to conclusions ’ quickly , but it may overshoot the optimum weights . |
| 11 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 12 | It may even be morally permissible to kill the child ; but the criminal law neither now nor in the future will countenance this , though it may look the other way from time to time . |