Example sentences of "may [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may most easily reveal the power of these influences on Dicey 's thought by posing what from a contemporary perspective seems to be a major difficulty with Dicey 's theory : how do we reconcile the twin principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law ? |
| 2 | To our interjection that on the evidence from Poland and other European countries under Russian domination , applied Marxism had neither created the wealth nor allowed the freedom to enable the purpose , as it is perceived in the democratic west , of the State to be realised — that is , to provide the circumstances in which the individual may most fully live a life of his or her own and so fulfill his or her potential for awareness and creativity , he would reply that that perception was mistaken ; and go on to remind us that he had attached supreme importance to the State . |
| 3 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
| 4 | He may not exactly obey every letter of the law . |
| 5 | They may not even have a friend . |
| 6 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |
| 7 | Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan . |
| 8 | You may not even like the King , but he wears the Crown of the Confessor . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the figures for press articles and radio and television programmes may not adequately reflect the importance of these as sources of information , since the majority of such features were produced either before or after the Survey period . |
| 10 | While the report may not completely resolve the question for your Lordships , it provides in the first place a very useful summary of the state of the law in 1966 . |
| 11 | You may not initially notice the effect of having a suspended CLI command file . |
| 12 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 13 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |
| 14 | They may not actually put the tenor clef in till grade grade five now I come to think about that . |
| 15 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 16 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 17 | The profitability of the Business may be affected and merely replacing the defective equipment may not sufficiently compensate the Purchaser . |
| 18 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 19 | It may finally be noted that the presence of a " synonymous " word-pair within a parallelistic couplet may not necessarily form an obstacle to the parallelism of greater specificity . |
| 20 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 21 | Although it may not necessarily clarify the position , there should nevertheless be greater recognition of children 's autonomy interests in the context of school discipline . |
| 22 | ‘ True , it may not necessarily reform the offender but at least it punishes him in a way which society would regard as just . |
| 23 | This may not necessarily mean the area has a scarcity of attractive buildings and open spaces . |
| 24 | an Investment Overview , which is a brief memorandum that highlights the main features of the business and which may not necessarily identify the name of the business ; and |
| 25 | They point out that services need to be aware of carers ' histories and their responses to stress , and that retirement may not necessarily increase a person 's ability or willingness to become an informal carer . |
| 26 | Whoever owns a piece of land may not necessarily own the mineral rights . |
| 27 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 28 | If , therefore , an old person at this stage moves a distance into the son or daughter 's home , they may not only lose a lifetime of familiar associations but they must struggle with complex adjustments within the family . |
| 29 | To recapitulate , it is clear that differences in national legislation may not only have the effect of preventing a good or service produced in one state being sold in another , but may also distort conditions of competition between manufacturers or suppliers located in different Member States of the Community . |
| 30 | A standard paragraph may not always reflect the tone required to deal with a particular enquiry ; it may not be quite appropriate to particular circumstances and it may not feel right to the recipient . |