Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guidelines may relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult relate generically to a function ( e.g. recreational reading , adult language books ) or to more specific categories of books within the function ( e.g. within recreational reading , to romances or popular biographies ) . |
| 2 | To give an example , incest may exist simply as a prohibition at the level of the formal system but at the practical level , breaches of the prohibition are explained , joked about or criticized . |
| 3 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 4 | For example , a site may consist largely of a number of postholes , all dating to the Neolithic period . |
| 5 | As an alternative to placing your account with a bank , you may do so at a building society , many of which offer similar services . |
| 6 | Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years . |
| 7 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 8 | For example , coral islands such as the Maldives may keep ahead of a rise of 50-70m a century . |
| 9 | Rectal discharge may occur rarely as a result of infection of the back passage , but again infection of this site is usually asymptomatic . |
| 10 | In his study of " Medieval Misogyny " , R. Howard Bloch makes the point that male distrust may depend less on a sense of the utter difference of women than on a sense of how similar women are : gender boundaries can be crossed , and men can become feminized — as Eve was created from Adam . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the latter assignment may demand more from a pupil in terms of information retrieval and may be a more fruitful area for database creation . |
| 12 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 13 | This may apply even in a case of constructive dismissal . |
| 14 | It needs to be appreciated that pupils with defective vision may respond inappropriately as a result of missing visual detail , for instance the facial expression and body gestures of others . |
| 15 | Equating it with a study of the constitution , however , may owe less to a desire for realism than to a lack of concern about legal matters . |
| 16 | The person may pass gradually into a state of unconsciousness . |
| 17 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 18 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 19 | [ music ] There is a corollary to this in the curious offset notes and phrases of the vocal melody which lend a kind of speech colour to the basically simple tonal language , while giving mobility to the harmony ( a change of direction in an unaccompanied vocal figure may lead unceremoniously to a change of key ) . |
| 20 | Similarly , conflict may not occur overtly , and after the deliberation phase ( forming ) the trust phase ( norming ) may lead straight to a solution ( reinforcement of group membership ) . |
| 21 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 22 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 23 | They may get away with a trick or two , but only for as long as nobody is watching too closely . |
| 24 | British critics fear such a member may care only for a section of his constituents . |
| 25 | The celebrations may last well into a week , as long as there is enough whisky to keep the party spirit afloat , with people from neighbouring glens calling by to offer their congratulations and share a wee dram . |
| 26 | Some water-formed features therefore , including the sand-bars that may form parallel with a shore-line with a salt-marsh behind , are constantly formed , destroyed and re-formed . |
| 27 | You may suffer unnecessarily as a result if , for example , you are fairly dismissed on the available data when a thorough examination might have revealed that you would soon be fit again . |
| 28 | Now it may differ slightly by a penny from the computer quote anyway , so I always say , if that was me , it 's going to cost you , what was it , thirt , what did it work it out , |