Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 2 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 3 | They may do so within a Compact institution , in which case it will be fairly easy to keep track of the Compact entitlement . |
| 4 | In southern England , they may do so within a single year . |
| 5 | They may do so in a non-Compact institution in which case responsibility for " cashing in " the Compact entitlement must rest with the student . |
| 6 | And the relative autonomy of certain factors within the whole allows the possibility of uneven development ; for example an economic mode of production may run ahead of a legitimating ideology , or a scientific revolution may not lead to technological change . |
| 7 | The case of Iran has shown Soviet leaders that a Third World state may withdraw comprehensively from a Western sponsored military alliance in a strategically sensitive area and avoid subsequent alignment with the USSR . |
| 8 | Where the incidence of syphilis exceeds a certain high level , the disease becomes endemic and transmission may occur regularly in a non-sexual context . |
| 9 | These may occur either as a primary feature or secondarily , as a reaction to the disrupted mental functioning . |
| 10 | The term sub-contractor may apply equally to a private or public company , any corporate or public body , as well as any individual self employed person or partnership . |
| 11 | It may serve today as a living protest against the cheapening , the misunderstanding , the betrayal of education which programmes of expansion and popular education policies can so easily conceal . |
| 12 | Also , serum glucose concentrations may vary considerably during a constant infusion of blucose due to insulin secretion . |
| 13 | If the matter is not resolved by the small claims procedure it may go forward to a full hearing before a County Court judge in the normal way . |
| 14 | At home you may get away with a subtle plan to mislead and manipulate trusting relatives , but people at work or in your community wo n't be so easy going . |
| 15 | At home you may get away with a subtle plan to mislead and manipulate trusting relatives , but people at work or in your community wo n't be so easy going . |
| 16 | The conclusion may derive instead from a general scepticism about all our perceptual capabilities , internal and external , and also a certain amount of fast philosophy . |
| 17 | In ( e ) the current variation during one period of the source may be such that the path on the oscilloscope screen ( the ‘ phase space trajectory ’ ) may lie anywhere within a certain region . |