Example sentences of "may [verb] [prep] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The misunderstanding that good medicine and good science are in conflict ( or worse , that there is a clash between compassion and science ) may arise from a failure to distinguish medical trials from human biological research that is neither preventive nor therapeutic . |
| 2 | A further reason for taxpayers believing that the burden of taxation is higher than it actually is may arise from a failure to understand the method of collection of income tax . |
| 3 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 4 | Such errors may result from a failure to identify the appropriate grapheme ( e.g. , " whose " " hows " , and " straight " " strat " ) , or a failure to segment the appropriate phoneme correctly ( e.g. , " except " " exersept " , and " vehicle " " vercal " ) . |
| 5 | ( A similar spread of support among states in the United States presidential elections may result in a president obtaining a majority in the electoral college without obtaining a majority of the popular vote . ) |
| 6 | It will be noted that failure to comply with a direction regarding structural alterations to a seamen 's canteen may result in a refusal to renew the licence It the next application , and not to a fine as under s.36 . |
| 7 | Other plaintiffs will adopt the common , often haphazard , methods of seeking legal advice , which may result in a plaintiff seeing a solicitor who is not experienced in the field . |
| 8 | You invoke her at your peril ; she may appear in a chariot drawn by wild beasts rushing through the darkness , suddenly descending upon you . |
| 9 | the day before , er Mr referred to in his evidence , you may remember to a company called |
| 10 | Meaning lies in the mind , beyond words — just as one may search for a word to express one 's meaning . |
| 11 | A Warlord may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 12 | Any Battle Standard Bearer may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 13 | Any Big Boss may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 14 | Any Shaman may ride in a chariot pulled by either war boars or giant wolves as described in the War Machines section of the list . |
| 15 | She may have wings , or she may ride in a chariot drawn by wild animals . |
| 16 | You may wish for a partner to give you all that , but what are you prepared to give of yourself ? |
| 17 | Coupled with her hope that the war may end in a stalemate goes the hope that she may never be obliged to become a belligerent nation . |
| 18 | Finally , attention to the nature of relationships and the aims of self-advocacy may serve as a litmus-test to measure the appropriateness of other approaches . |
| 19 | This may lead to a party claiming : |
| 20 | The president may consent to a bill imposing a new tax or conferring certain rights . |
| 21 | It may come as a surprise to realise that the press have a right to cover hearings , although they may not , in any way , identify the children who are the subject of those hearings . |
| 22 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 23 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
| 24 | Several clients may come into a bureau complaining of damp council property . |
| 25 | IBM might even be able to put the machine into volume production during 1993 but may settle for a system to offload CICS terminal handling to start with . |
| 26 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 27 | The answer may lie in a speech put into the mouth of Sigismund 's wife by Gregory . |
| 28 | A corporation may sue for a libel affecting property , not for one merely affecting personal reputation . |
| 29 | If an individual or the members of a firm may sue for a libel imputing to them insolvency , because of the damage which such a libel is calculated to do them in relation to their business , could it possibly be maintained that a trading corporation could not sue for a like libel ? … |
| 30 | I therefore am of opinion that a trading corporation may sue for a libel calculated to injure them in respect of their business , and may do so without any proof of damage general or special . |