Example sentences of "may [verb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Catfish may regard the whole tank as his territory and attack anything you put in as competition . |
| 2 | This may cover the whole gamut of emotions , including elation , despair , anger , irritability , anxiety , and inexplicable fear . |
| 3 | In fact ‘ Kubla ’ was the name of their drinking- can , and the pun may strike some people as near-sacrilege ; others may consider the whole thing quite trivial . |
| 4 | For example , if the proposed route of the march takes the participants past an embassy or a particular factory against whose occupants the organisers wish to protest , the prescription of a different route or terminus may obviate the whole point of the demonstration , and amount to in effect a disguised ban . |
| 5 | So it 's actually sometimes thinking about , can I tie in something else to this , which may bring the whole picture , bring it all together , but be creative . |
| 6 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 7 | Within the nuclear family , an Oedipal situation between one child and its parent may disrupt the whole complex of relationships within the family . |
| 8 | Another is that of maintaining production stability , because , for example , a hold-up at one work station may stop the whole line . |
| 9 | One teacher , for example , will structure the discussion very carefully so the pupils concentrate simply on getting the details right , while another may hand the whole problem to the class and then force them to justify any suggestions they make . |
| 10 | Thus they may observe the whole earth and guard their master against SHIVA . |
| 11 | YUGOSLAVIA Bosnia means more bad news for Balkans Mike Glenny says the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina may drag the whole region into bloody conflict |
| 12 | Indeed , the line between ‘ predation ’ and dispersal mechanism is hazy in that plants with a small numbers of seeds in any season may lose the whole crop to ‘ dispersal agents ’ . |
| 13 | As such they are in a position to see themselves as running a business and may adopt the whole gambit of business techniques when addressing their organisational problems . |
| 14 | Outings can be for just one or two residents to go somewhere they want to , or it may involve the whole staff and all the residents . |
| 15 | Some calls have a more general effect , for instance a loud neigh or whinny may alarm the whole herd … in the main however , so far as communications between individuals are concerned , visual signals are more important than sounds . |
| 16 | By the process of displacement one idea may surrender to another the whole volume of its cathexis ; by that of condensation it may appropriate the whole cathexis of several other ideas . |