Example sentences of "may [vb infin] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 2 | Other individuals may assimilate more readily to London English speech . |
| 3 | However , the truth of the problem was lameness , which may affect more than one leg . |
| 4 | But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results ! |
| 5 | Although the move to representative democracy may reduce the dimensionality , there may remain more than one dimension ( e.g. , ‘ Liberal-non-liberal ’ as well as ‘ left-right ’ ) . |
| 6 | Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development . |
| 7 | Its frequency is usually fixed , though problems may arise more or less often than review cycles . |
| 8 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 9 | The idea that literary texts may trigger more than one level of reading is also central to Irene Fairley 's paper , which is a discussion of a corpus of interpretative responses to Sylvia Plath 's poem " Mushrooms " . |
| 10 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |
| 11 | This may throw more light on the mechanism of action of the alcoholic beverages on the gastric mucosa and possibly on other organs . |
| 12 | Others may make more conventional protests but the pain looks like continuing for some time . |
| 13 | Short term advantage gained at the price of keeping alive prejudices and preconceptions may make more difficult , or even preclude , later changes in the direction of policy . |
| 14 | It follows that if adverse competitive feedback from output markets is weak , then cooperative joint ventures which include provisions for joint production and marketing may stimulate more successful innovations than those which are restricted to co-operative R&D alone . |
| 15 | They may include more major alterations , such as widening a door for a wheelchair . |
| 16 | Because households may include more than one of the ‘ assessment units ’ used by the DHSS to calculate rates of benefit , RNR is based on the sum of the entitlements of each assessment unit within the household . |
| 17 | Your army must include at least 25% of its points value as units chosen from the following list ; it may include more if you wish . |
| 18 | Your army must include at least 25% of its points value as regiments chosen from the following list , and it may include more if you wish . |
| 19 | A desire for intimacy in your life mid-June means you may need more from your partner . |
| 20 | More complicated fish may need more advanced systems . |
| 21 | Women who are very depressed may need more intensive individual support before joining others with bulimia in a group . |
| 22 | You may need more than one interview . |
| 23 | It ensures that the solicitor only sees those clients who have been identified by a volunteer worker as being in need of professional advice ; it provides a free initial interview to encourage those who may be worried about cost ; and it permits the solicitor to take on those clients who may need more extensive legal assistance . |
| 24 | You may need more than one sequence to cover all the points about any one piece of apparatus . |
| 25 | It may need more general contextual information to discriminate between words , yet it has to provide the words that determine that context . |
| 26 | 8 No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 27 | No entrant may win more than one prize . |
| 28 | No competitor may win more than one prize . |
| 29 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 30 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |