Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly the man in our example may prefer to keep an additional fraction of his income as money balances in excess of his transactions demand , just in case something unexpected happens which necessitates immediate expenditure . |
| 2 | Wordwrapping is normally automatic , but with some programs you may need to give an additional Format command to tidy the edited text . |
| 3 | You may need to make an advance payment ( the difference between the total cost of the three year hire for the vehicle selected and the amount of finance available from mobility supplement ) , but for smaller cars there may not be anything to pay . |
| 4 | Some purchasers may decline to submit an indicative offer before meeting the management /vendors and visiting the factory . |
| 5 | Most of this form of DNA is confined to actively transcribed genes , where Rich speculates that it may function to keep an appropriate distance between successive molecules of RNA polymerase . |
| 6 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 7 | For remarkably little effort , you may have saved an endangered building . |
| 8 | Similarly , the increasing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may have caused an increasing number of peptic ulcer cases in the older age groups . |
| 9 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 10 | The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime . |
| 11 | Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) . |
| 12 | The illicit trade in cattle may have played an important role in providing an economic base for certain upwardly-mobile Goyigama families . |
| 13 | What happens next depends on the particular model : you may find that the machine goes automatically into record mode on switch-on , or you may have to press an additional button to ready it for recording . |
| 14 | She may have become an international superstar , wined and dined with kings and presidents , prima ballerinas , film idols , pop legends and sporting heroes ; she may be ferried around in motorcades and private yachts and planes ; and she may be given priceless jewels to wear . |
| 15 | Taylor feels the same but fears it may have become an unbeatable campaign against the enigmatic 29-year-old . |
| 16 | But the Masters may have become an important link between monarch and subject . |
| 17 | Such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children by their early and traumatic weaning of them , but would also have maintained them in a passive and otherwise dependent state , not because of their passive maternal solicitude , but because of their aggressive , assertive masculinity which caused them to dominate their children rather as a father might . |
| 18 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 19 | Many such heavy timber beams supporting joists of the first floor were inserted into existing buildings in such a way that their ends may have had an inadequate bearing on to slender timber ‘ storey posts ’ installed adjacent to the party walls . |
| 20 | The panel is not cut down though it may have had an adjoining predella and lunette with few areas of paint loss , and the intensity of the original pigments preserved . |
| 21 | He may have had an unfortunate experience with a highway engineer — |
| 22 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 23 | This may have seemed an odd way of treating a friend , but if one knew Emily it would perhaps have caused no surprise . |
| 24 | In any further consideration of ’ Options for Change ’ will the Minister take into account lessons from the Gulf war such as heavy lift , better intelligence especially on targeting , mine counter-measures , which may have inhibited an amphibious operation , and , above all , fire from friendly forces , which underlines the need for the IFF — identification , friend or foe — system which has so far eluded NATO ? |
| 25 | You may have to make an important decision , your love life seems to flourish and pr proposals of marriage are in the air . |
| 26 | Another is that gravity does not seem to be renormalizable ; in order to obtain finite answers , it seems that one may have to make an infinite number of infinite subtractions with a correspondingly infinite number of undetermined finite remainders . |
| 27 | A contingent liability transaction is one where the investor may have to pay an additional amount on settlement ( other than charges ) . |
| 28 | At least her show of independence may have avoided an intolerable sense of strain over lunch , in Sandringham 's pale green dining room . |
| 29 | In the first half of the eighteenth century low food prices and slight demographic pressure may have allowed an aggregate increase in spending on non-essentials , even if the relative elasticities meant that more and better foodstuffs were the likely first call on extra income . |
| 30 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |