Example sentences of "may [vb infin] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such considerations , sometimes working together , may debar many adjectives from ever appearing postnominally ; in other instances , acceptability may be marginal enough to depend not only on these factors , but also on the particular circumstances . |
| 2 | But , as Archer ( 1981 ) points out , class may affect many psychological measures , like mathematical ability and childrearing practices , more strongly than gender . |
| 3 | The outdoor sand pit may include many of the activities already described and is dealt with more fully in chapter 9 Outdoor Activities . |
| 4 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 5 | Complex , long-chain biological molecules may carry many charges , and at the cell level membranes carry charges . |
| 6 | The examples we have reviewed enable us to see clearly that mystical power may assume many contrasting shapes and forms , but that what determines its moral evaluation is simply the purpose for which it is employed . |
| 7 | As recurrence may appear many years after the operation , however , long — though not particularly frequent — follow up is required . |
| 8 | Rapid shooting may give many frames , but quantity will never make up for quality . |
| 9 | You may see many of the good birds from the trail , and the foreshore is excellent for waders and wildfowl , including red-breasted mergansers , goldeneyes , wigeon , black-tailed godwits and spotted redshanks . |
| 10 | Moreover , the herb can be planted without disturbance to the roots , almost immediately after buying , whereas those sent through the post may spend many days travelling in inadequate packaging , having been dug up or removed from a container . |
| 11 | Minor items may spend many years at the various stages before being settled . |
| 12 | We shall argue later in the book that the information processing capability of new technology may undermine many of the reasons why large firms came into being . |
| 13 | An ‘ information ’ book may provide many of the insights and the language pleasures , and engage the reader in much the same way a literary text does . |
| 14 | For viewers of video the location of a scene may provide many clues as to the content of an interaction , for example a shop . |
| 15 | This can be a significant amount , which may offset many of the advantages of leasing . |
| 16 | Ah , well ! we may conjecture many things . |
| 17 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |
| 18 | By deflecting Oakeshott 's arguments into a critique of constructivist rationalism Hayek seeks to maintain a rationalist approach which may avoid many of Oakeshott 's criticisms . |
| 19 | Although she may have many other fine qualities , she is clearly not an international fashion model . |
| 20 | Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best . |
| 21 | They may have many detailed conversations without realizing that each has attributed a different meaning to the ‘ it ’ or the ‘ that ’ they are talking about . |
| 22 | Colour and shape have always been used as a basis for sorting , but objects may have many properties , and can be sorted , for example , according to size , weight or texture . |
| 23 | It is changeable , and may have many forms . |
| 24 | It is not itself a specific condition with a simple ‘ guaranteed ’ treatment ; because it may have many causes , which can be quite difficult to pinpoint . |
| 25 | Pope John used to say , ‘ The Church may have many enemies , but she is no one 's enemy ’ ( p. 207 ) . |
| 26 | The design team may have many forms from a single individual working alone to a broadly based curriculum development team with specialists in curriculum design , graphics , programming and observation ; however , for our purpose it is useful to emphasize three roles — the curriculum designer who has overall responsibility for the program teaching unit and its associated written or audio-visual material , the program designer who realizes the computer program and the teacher developers in whose classrooms the material is tried and tuned . |
| 27 | Used as an utterance in context it may have many meanings , which , although they are connected to this context-free sentence meaning , may be extremely varied . |
| 28 | It is described here so that you can see as soon as possible : A learning program may have many facets , and classification is fraught with subtlety . |
| 29 | Most of the ‘ paramedicals ’ are relatively specialised , but a disabled person may have many requirements and many people may therefore be needed to meet them . |
| 30 | It seems clear , however , that corporate groups may have many interdependencies between SBUs . |