Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If au else fails , a sector which is being undermined by imports may successfully apply for exemption from restrictions on the formation of a cartel to enable the decline of the sector to proceed in an orderly manner .
2 Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights .
3 Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy .
4 This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug .
5 Corporate members may only participate in elections of that branch to which they are attached .
6 ‘ And that you may better call to God for Repentance , and find Mercy , and do good Works , the Officer of Eskdale-Side shall blow his Horn Out on you , Out on you , for the heinous crime of you . ’
7 In summary the specificity of the P100/CREB interaction together with the reduction in detectable P100 following differentiation suggests that P100 may functionally interact with CREB during differentiation of F9 cells .
8 Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre .
9 Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One .
10 Client will provide to KPMG such information as KPMG may reasonably request from time to time in connection with the Offer and will not , without prior consultation and the written consent of KPMG ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) make or publish any announcement , public statement or document concerning the Offer whether before the announcement of or during the course of the Offer ; and
11 On a more subjective level social isolation may also refer to feelings of loneliness and concerns about the quality and quantity of social contacts .
12 Of course , such studies still need some general concepts , which may be relevant in analysing any political system , and they may also arrive at conclusions about the relative importance of diverse elements — property ownership , social classes , political elites however constituted , military power , and myth and ideology as means of legitimating authority — which affect its character in greater or lesser degree .
13 As Tobin ( 1982 ) and Walsh ( 1984 ) observe , instability may also arise at times of change in the underlying economic environment since the coefficients in ( 1 ) are dependent upon the covariance matrix of asset returns .
14 Declarations and injunctions can also be sought in the County Court , and issues of the sort which can arise in judicial review actions under Ord. 53 may also arise in cases before tribunals and criminal courts .
15 Increased thromboxane A 2 production may also contribute to thrombogenesis in atherosclerotic vessels .
16 Activity-induced changes in the morphology or number of spines may also contribute to changes in synaptic efficiency , as suggested by a number of electron-microscopic studies .
17 Plying this area with yet more oil , in the form of creamy cleansers and heavy moisturisers , will exacerbate the problem of excessive shine , and may also contribute to outbreaks of spots .
18 A president may also benefit from movements in the cycles of American history , by taking office at a moment advan-tageous to his policy preferences .
19 Many of these companies may also benefit from economies of scale as they expand into such activities .
20 The recognition that there are authors who have not traditionally formed part of the literary ‘ canon ’ in the past may also lead to discussion about present-day social inequalities .
21 Builders and developers themselves may also speculate in land in this way .
22 It appears that the effect of marking to the market with stochastic interest rates is generally rather small , can vary as between futures ( depending on the sensitivity of their price to movements in interest rates ) and may also vary over time for the same future .
23 They may also appeal to Whitehall for more money .
24 Agents may also act for purchasers in making investigations and enquiries .
25 Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 .
26 The condition may also occur in association with various other medical disorders .
27 Changes may also occur from year to year in response to cycles in rodent populations .
28 Judicial review may also come into play in the potentially fraught area of contracted-out services .
29 Secondly , the torts considered in this chapter may also come into question in cases of alleged unlawful competition between traders , but in practice they are of little significance because of the common law 's refusal to adopt any principle of ‘ fair competition ’ other than the prohibition of obviously unlawful acts like torts and crimes and breaches of contract .
30 At the same time , we may have to accept that the National Curriculum finally forces us to address the question of how far the polarization of the discourse , and the adopting of classroom strategies which celebrate something called ‘ process ’ at the expense of content , may both stem in part from a posture of defensiveness in the face of the problem of the primary class teacher 's curriculum knowledge .
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