Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a very painful condition , and there is a risk that the seed responsible may track further up the leg . |
| 2 | Its structure and language may prevent not just the voice from being heard , but feelings from moving to ideas and into speech . |
| 3 | Co-operation with the Russians may provide not merely the means , but also the rationale . |
| 4 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 6 | The time budget … may record not only the activities themselves but the people with whom they were performed , and the location of activities . |
| 7 | Much greater detail on specific examples is contained in later chapters , but a few examples may establish more clearly the framework of the debate . |
| 8 | In some circumstances natural language indexing may reflect more closely the terms used by the searcher . |
| 9 | When women have had many children , and are older , births of higher order may suffer not only the effects of the mother 's physical debilitation from excessive childbearing but , as noted above , in certain circumstances , they may also compete for sustenance unsuccessfully with older siblings . |