Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 3 | It is , as I may say from repeated experience , a pure and unmixed pleasure to have a goodly volume lying before you , and to know that you … need not open it unless you please … |
| 4 | Outside is a lovely garden where you may eat in fine weather , and occasionally the hotel offers zither music during the evening . |
| 5 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 6 | In order that you may continue with other work ( not necessarily involving LIFESPAN ) , mail messages are accumulated within LIFESPAN until it is convenient for them to be inspected or printed . |
| 7 | If a substantial loss has been suffered you may be able to sue the vendor , and if you lack financial resources you may qualify for legal aid . |
| 8 | If you do not hold such a licence you may apply for Provisional LCG/PCV entitlement to be added to your ordinary licence provided it contains full car entitlement . |
| 9 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 10 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 11 | I will be grateful for any information you may have on private home care cooperative . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell Her Majesty ’ he replied ‘ she may travel in perfect security , and I will answer for her safety . |
| 13 | There 's every chance she may go to Intensive Care if she deteriorates . ’ |
| 14 | Reasons for : She may get into bad company and be at risk in some way . |
| 15 | For example , as parents we may react with undue stress to a teenager who flouts our authority , because we are afraid of losing our self-esteem which is dependent on being able to control our family . |
| 16 | We can see then , that as conscious subjects , we may draw upon common sense as explanation , and that there is a struggle for the definition of this vis-a-vis the State . |
| 17 | However we may feel about overseas aid , the requirement for agricultural research is a matter of tens of millions of dollars , not billions . |
| 18 | ‘ The final decision will be made in the New Year and we may bow to public pressure , ’ says the spokesman . |
| 19 | Opposition Members may well decide to make some progress and we may get to new clause 9 and to others further down the list , we can not be sure about that . |
| 20 | They may lean towards simple solid-riffing more than the likes of the Babes or the dark Hole , but here , this alternative heavy steel sound has some ecstatic , if not inventive moments . |
| 21 | Improved economic status now gives more elderly people the option of a fairly comfortable retirement which they may prefer to continued employment in unattractive work . |
| 22 | The problems encountered may be entirely physical in nature , as with many people who are physically handicapped , or they may stem from psycho-sexual dysfunction with no physical concomitant whatever . |
| 23 | There are some encouraging signs that they may benefit from rigorous application of competition policy . |
| 24 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 25 | Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) . |
| 26 | If the ‘ night forces ’ are given no safe outlet , no proper channelling , they may erupt with disastrous effect . |
| 27 | It is not yet known how the active components of ginseng , compounds called triterpenoidal saponins , achieve these effects , although by analogy with the related steroidal saponins , such as digitalis , they may act on specific cell membranes . |
| 28 | Although this complication is unlikely to cause overt clinical problems it may result in diagnostic confusion particularly with peritoneal malignancy . |
| 29 | ‘ It may recover with careful treatment . |
| 30 | No one can tell what stimulus it may bring or the fruit it may bear in creative work by later generations . |