Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 2 | Nowadays the attitude seems totally the opposite ; the modern-day prop appears to say : ‘ I may go down in the scrummage , but I will never go back ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 4 | Perhaps I may turn briefly to the higher rates , which may be in the minds of some , and ask whether it would be possible to picket Park lane , to ask those attending this evening 's £500 per head dinner whether they are paying more tax this year at the lower rate , or whether they paid more tax in 1979 at Labour 's higher rates ? |
| 5 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 6 | But this if I may pick up on the point Mr made , how then do you assess the environmental impact of what you 're proposing if you do n't actually know where it 's going to go ? |
| 7 | Remember , before you approach the council , that they may be more than interested in the quantities of water necessary to run your ponds … you may end up with the officials knocking at your door . |
| 8 | An architect : maybe he had a smart assistant last year ; you may end up with the dumbest heap of concrete you ever saw . |
| 9 | You may end up in the red , but as long as it 's not by too much , you 're less likely to have rows about it . ’ |
| 10 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |
| 11 | I am delighted to find you have been so successful in your Expedition : I heartily pray you may continue so to the end and safely return to Old England : I am much pleased too at hearing your health has not been affected in the slightest degree : pray be careful and never forget that upon your safety , hinges the welfare of numbers . ’ |
| 12 | You may learn much about the hobby from each other . |
| 13 | Then , ‘ There 's been no change , you may inquire again in the evening . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You may look back down the mountain . |
| 15 | You may come there by the alley from the town wall , and leave the church on your right . |
| 16 | You may find out before the journey a particular landmark near your destination . |
| 17 | And we may refer again to the CDA 's first Annual Report . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , we may go back to the situation in 1072 , and begin with some words of Lanfranc which provide the main evidence for the documents which existed at this date . |
| 19 | The above fees are exclusive of VAT and do not include the cost of advice which we may provide separately from the sale of the company . |
| 20 | Leaving the question of what mechanisms produce differentiation , we may turn now to the separable issue of the mechanisms by which discriminative performance is enhanced once differentiation has been achieved . |
| 21 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 22 | Just before dozing off on an air mattress beneath a nylon tent amid the stench of decaying refuse they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings . |
| 23 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 24 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 25 | as being a person referred to in that notice , to refer the matter to which the notice relates to the Financial Services Tribunal in order that they may report thereon to the S.I.B . |
| 26 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 27 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 28 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 29 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 30 | Like its counterpart in the handling of speech , this is common , but it may present more in the way of reading problems . |