Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary-quality facing bricks will be ideal for most outdoor walling , but you may want to consider using special-quality bricks in particularly exposed areas . |
| 2 | A child or adult may need special training or retraining to overcome physical disability arising from developmental fault or injury , which may entail learning to use artificial limbs or other prosthetic aids . |
| 3 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 4 | There may be no overseas players next season and high-profile players may have to go to recoup some cash and pay off debts . ’ |
| 5 | He says they may have to stop teaching some subjects . |
| 6 | Check the conditions because you may have agreed to pay any increase between ordering and delivery . |
| 7 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 8 | Among the mechanisms that may have evolved to resolve genetic conflicts are sex , Mendelian genetics , the existence of two sexes , the rarity of hermaphroditism and the equality of the sex ratio . |
| 9 | The lack of spatial learning with moving landmarks suggests that spatial learning processes may have evolved to extract geometric invariance from the environment in a manner analogous to that in which conventional associative learning principles are held to extract the ‘ causal structure ’ of the environment . |
| 10 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 11 | But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages . |
| 12 | When cimetidine was given together with histamine , blockade of histamine 2 receptor may have reversed histamine stimulated growth . |
| 13 | If there are only one or two sedimentological theses in one year , the list compiler may have chosen to combine this category with that for stratigraphy . |
| 14 | There are , however , a number of provisions contained in TA 1988 , Part XV ( ss660-689 ) which seek to tax the income arising from the trust property upon the settlor , even though he may have attempted to alienate that income for tax purposes . |
| 15 | You may have to consider doing some pruning . |
| 16 | The Perkins may have come to regret this decision because , after being eclipsed at the exhibition , the demand for their mauve dye decreased rapidly , and they found that the commercial potential for magenta dye had been grossly underestimated . |
| 17 | In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills . |
| 18 | Owing to his involvement with Darwin and other staff in the Senior Common Room , he may have wished to avoid any liaison with a student that would have embarrassed College authorities . |
| 19 | They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it . |
| 20 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |
| 21 | The prospect of such a deal may have helped to boost Colombian exports to Mexico by 27% last year . |
| 22 | What Yeroen hoped to gain by his play-acting is not clear , though it may have helped to defuse further aggression . |
| 23 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 24 | It may have helped reduce eighteenth-century mortality ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 25 | It could be that at some future date we may wish to consider running DOS-based PCs from a Unix file-server , but it is preferable that we leave this as a possible option at the moment , rather than a definite commitment . |
| 26 | The court is to decide ( among other things ) whether the company may continue to refuse to hire fertile women for jobs that require exposure to lead , or whether its policy is discriminatory . |