Example sentences of "may [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second girl , Doreen Dacres , was like Carol Pearson , black-haired and aged twenty , and his interest was aroused because she had left her room in Finchley on May 15th to take a job in Eastbourne . |
| 2 | Giscard d'Estaing even went to meet Brezhnev in May 1980 to ease the sense of crisis . |
| 3 | President Bush visited Los Angeles on May 7-8 to survey the scene of the rioting and used the occasion to announce a $19,000,000 anti-drug and anti-gang programme for the worst-affected areas of the city . |
| 4 | Leaders of all three Baltic republics ( i.e. Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia ) met in Vilnius , Lithuania 's capital , on May 30 to discuss the attacks . |
| 5 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 6 | The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Law Society of Scotland held a general discussion group for insolvency specialists in St Andrews on 18–19 May 1993 to address the concern that the current corporate insolvency legislation does not provide a suitable rescue procedure which is quick , easy to use and cost effective . |
| 7 | The Russian Constitutional Court convened on May 26 to discuss the legality of Yeltsin 's decrees of Nov. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38583 ] banning the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and the Russian Communist Party ( RCP ) and confiscating their property . |
| 8 | UNTIL the last minute , the election on May 1st to fill the Senate seat vacated by Lloyd Bentsen when he went to the Treasury had generated almost no interest in Texas . |
| 9 | The council of the International Natural Rubber Organization ( INRO ) , incorporating major producers and 20 consumer countries , agreed at a three-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) on May 25-27 to form a working group to discuss a renegotiation of the International Natural Rubber Agreement ( INRA ) , a final decision to be taken by the end of March 1993 . |
| 10 | Though Labour joined with the Conservatives in May 1940 to fight the Second World War , under Churchill 's leadership , it is clear that despite the almost obsessive concern of the public about the threat of European fascism it was only the Labour Party , slow and cumbersome in its rate of change , which actually squared up to the necessity of facing fascism with military sanctions if necessary . |
| 11 | The Nickles amendment , passed by Congress last November , gave Yugoslavia until May 6th to end the repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo , on pain of losing about $5m worth of technical aid in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 12 | In an escalation of the confrontation , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet voted in closed session on May 21 to rescind the 1954 decree ceding the Crimea from Russia to Ukraine [ see p. 13507 ] . |
| 13 | He proposed June 12 as the polling date , with a regular Congress session convened on May 21 to make the necessary constitutional change to create an executive presidency . |
| 14 | Against this background , a local jury decided on May 23rd to acquit a butcher , Rodney Peairs , of the murder of a Japanese exchange student who knocked on his door by mistake last year , looking for a Halloween party . |
| 15 | None the less it performed well in the elections for the Convention , the constitutional debating chamber established in May 1975 to find an agreed political structure for Ulster . |
| 16 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 17 | Given that the MIT was formed on 13 May 1991 , we had until 12 May 1992 to achieve the objective . |
| 18 | UN Under-Secretary-General Marrack Goulding visited former Yugoslav republics from May 5 to assess the possibility of sending UN troops to Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 19 | The controversial duo , last seen performing with Extreme Noise Terror at the BPI awards in February , offered the following statement to NME : ‘ Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond left for Mexico City on May 5 to research a non-music project , the nature of which is yet to be disclosed . ’ |
| 20 | Vagnorius had appeared before the Supreme Council on May 5 to explain the criticism in April of his government by 10 of his ministers [ see p. 38880 ] . |
| 21 | Delegates representing the 167 member states of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) met for the 43rd World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 7-18 to consider the biennial report of the Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 22 | The yacht sponsored by Courtaulds and International Paint docked in Southampton on May 25 to finish a creditable sixth overall in the round-the-world British Steel Challenge . |
| 23 | It was announced on May 14 that 44.1 per cent of ÖTV members supported the deal in a ballot , rather than the majority required , but the ÖTV leadership decided on May 25 to override the vote and accept the offer . |
| 24 | Representatives of 40 countries , of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) and of the EC 's European Investment bank ( EIB ) , met at the Elysée Palace in Paris on May 29 to sign the founding charter of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD or , by its French acronym , BERD ) , a new international organization intended to finance industrial and economic development in the countries of Eastern Europe , using loans , guarantees , equity investment and underwriting to promote the transition to free-market economic systems in those countries . |
| 25 | A NEW Finance Bill will be put before the House of Commons shortly after the Queen 's Speech on May 6 to include the parts of the Budget which were dropped when the election was called the day after Budget Day , including increases in inheritance tax allowances , backdated to the start of the current financial year . |
| 26 | The Latvian Currency Reform Committee decided on May 6 to introduce a Latvian rouble to circulate in parallel with the ex-Soviet rouble . |
| 27 | Yet as the board met on May 27th to discuss a new trading system to replace the ageing SEAQ system , its members were conscious of the exchange 's troubles , not its successes . |
| 28 | It took until May 1949 to draft the Basic Law . |
| 29 | Six civilian prefects were appointed on May 3 to replace the Army officers who had hitherto administered the provinces . |
| 30 | The PLO Executive Committee met in Algiers on May 29-30 to discuss the talks , which were described in an official statement as " positive " . |