Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others do not , but you may want to add some staged encounters along the way . |
| 2 | To the extent that a two-tier market in shares develops — index shares and the rest — traders may seek to exploit any perceived price differential between the two groups by trading shares , and this will tend to restore price relativities . |
| 3 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 4 | You may need to do some lateral thinking , as savings can not always be related to the size of the cheques you write out each month . |
| 5 | If he is not used to the concept you may need to do some initial explaining , but , once he understands your expectation , he may turn out far better than he imagined ! |
| 6 | Where one librarian may choose to spend several complete days in the school vacation creating a database , other librarians or teachers may choose to spend a few hours every week over one or two terms . |
| 7 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 8 | Staff may have noticed some new faces and new uniforms in the reception areas of Stamford and Rennie Houses . |
| 9 | A local farmer had installed a grain-drier in the immediate locality which may have prevented any such manifestation from being heard . |
| 10 | Adjustments to incorporate various factors which may have affected this annual prevalence figure ( over 200 cases lacking an identity code , low response rates from GPs and social workers ) suggest a possible range of 1,550 to 1,850 individual problem drug users in Wirral during 1984–5 . |
| 11 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 12 | Frequent house moves caused by a partner 's promotion may have made any long-term employment unviable . |
| 13 | We have received no formal approaches of this sort although we believe some organisations may have expressed some informal interest to DTI . |
| 14 | Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition . |
| 15 | A British tourist freed after two years in an Indian jail may have to wait another four months to leave the country . |
| 16 | About 60 p.c. will be A bonds , so investors expecting redemption in 1994 may have to wait several extra years for full repayment : holders are likely to seek higher interest rates as compensation . |
| 17 | Even then you may have to use that extra bit of guile before you have one in the net . |
| 18 | Check with your language helper next session , for you may have missed some phonetic detail which could be important . |
| 19 | Enterprising landowners may have developed such valuable assets and erected health resorts similar to establishments of recent centuries . |
| 20 | L trials are usually more difficult to organize the teacher may have to plan some considerable way ahead before you can observe lessons where he has used the program several times before . |
| 21 | Although the Labour Left may have considered this official conversion to Socialism somewhat belated , it was attracted to the Peace Alliance only in so far as it represented a continuation of previous Unity campaigns . |
| 22 | Early life on Earth may have had many false starts — as many as ten — with each based on a different biochemistry . |
| 23 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 24 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
| 25 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 26 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 27 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 28 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 29 | It is also worth checking the text itself as the change of display may have forced some unexpected re-composition . |
| 30 | Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are . |