Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 2 | Thus all M-H stretching frequencies decrease by several hundreds of cm -1 , and this can be used to confirm the group-frequency assignment of such modes , and also to remove M-H bands from regions where they may hide other bands . |
| 3 | Although you may feel that Page 3 models , pornographic magazines , videos and films have no relevance to your life , and certainly no relevance to your obsession with losing weight or remaining slim , it is easy to see how such images of womanhood can contribute to a sense of vulnerability to rape , or just confusion over whether having breasts and thighs means you are always sexually available . |
| 4 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 5 | Although you may find these items expensive I would recommend purchasing hose taps for external power filters . |
| 6 | However , the latter are time-consuming to peel , so you may prefer ready-peeled chestnuts , available in cans or vacuum packs . |
| 7 | When a juggernaut passes , we only hear the rumble down to about 20 hertz , although we may feel lower vibrations . |
| 8 | Although we may perceive these levels as separate , they are in fact interrelated — we can not in reality separate the parts that make up the whole . |
| 9 | Although we may suffer several colds each winter we are not being re-infected with the same virus . |
| 10 | Together with the impossibility of effectively excluding people from consuming it , this implies that all individuals consume the same quantity , although they may attach different utility to this consumption if their tastes differ . |
| 11 | Many humans have taken ‘ objects ’ , that is , in this case , people , of the same sex , and although they may have some experience of heterosexual intercourse , they may prefer and may frequently perform homosexual acts . |
| 12 | Alterations in the level of aggregate demand have no significant impact on relative prices , although they may provoke temporary quantity responses owing to misperceptions concerning the behaviour of relative prices by the suppliers of goods ( firms ) and the suppliers of labour services ( households ) . |
| 13 | Psychotherapy , Family Therapy , religious teaching and various other forms of " therapy " are not found to significantly helpful in the treatment of primary addictive disease nor in addictive family disease , although they may provide supplementary help to some individuals after they are in recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 14 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 15 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 16 | The mechanisms whereby smoking influences ulcer healing are unknown ; it probably does not affect gastric acidity , although it may alter duodenal motility and acidity . |
| 17 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 18 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 19 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 20 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 21 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 22 | Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida , it will be a highlight of your trip . |
| 23 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 24 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 25 | ‘ But I suppose nothing closes overnight , so it may get some use . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 27 | I wonder if I may offer some thoughts on this theme as I reflect on the situation facing Catholic Christians in our Church today . |
| 28 | If I may make one suggestion to the South Africans that is meant to be helpful , it is this : call on Bob Burrows , the ITV producer who was in charge of the Rugby World Cup in this country , and invite him to be your consultant . |
| 29 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 30 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |